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Pentagon Accused of Ordering Destruction of Interrogation Instructions

HeadlineJun 09, 2008

At Guantanamo Bay, a military attorney for the Canadian prisoner Omar Khadr is accusing the Pentagon of ordering interrogators to destroy notes in case they were called to testify on treatment of prisoners. The lawyer, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, said the instructions were discovered in a Pentagon “Standard Operating Procedures” manual last week. Khadr has been held in US captivity since he was fifteen years old.

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