U.S. Rebuffs U.N. Requests For Guantanamo Visits, Data On CIA Prisons

From Washington Post:

UNITED NATIONS -- The Obama administration has declined requests from U.N. human rights investigators for information on secret prisons and for private interviews with inmates at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, U.N. officials said, dampening their hopes of greater U.S. cooperation on human rights issues.

The rebuffs are the latest instances of the U.S. government resisting international human rights organizations' efforts to learn about Bush administration practices. In June, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton turned down a request from the top U.N. anti-torture official for a meeting in Washington to discuss practices at secret CIA detention centers and at Guantanamo Bay, despite the administration's avowed commitment to being open to greater scrutiny by the United Nations.

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My Comment: This information is not going to be given to these UN "human rights" organizations. With Congress preparing to investigate these issues, and with the Justice Department getting ready to nominate a special prosecutor to investigate even more (Yes, I believe that a special prosecutor will be nominated in a few weeks) .... the White House will be wanting to control the message and the information that is going be released. Giving this information to outside organizations is only going to insure that they will no control over what will want to be published .... a no-no for any White House.

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