Otherwise Dealt With 
Chalmers Johnson
- Ghost Plane: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Rendition Programme by Stephen Grey Buy this book
Four years ago, on 28 January 2003, in his State of the Union address to Congress, George Bush referred to the prisoners – more than ten and a half thousand of them – the United States had taken into custody in the course of the war in Afghanistan and the so-called war on terror. Not all were in prison, he said: some had been ‘otherwise dealt with’. ‘Let’s put it this way,’ he continued, ‘they are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies.’
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Chalmers Johnson was a consultant to the Office of National Estimates of the CIA from 1967 to 1972. Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, is out this month.
Other articles by this contributor:
The Looting of Asia · Japan, the US and stolen gold
Who’s in charge? · The Addiction to Secrecy
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