U.S. Acknowledges Violating International Law by Holding Prisoner...

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Is this why Tenet resigned?

Note the bottom of the article and what was "embargoed" until today.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBB9BHUKVD.html


U.S. Acknowledges Violating International Law by Holding Prisoner in Secret

By Matt Kelley Associated Press Writer
Published: Jun 17, 2004

WASHINGTON (AP) - At the request of CIA Director George Tenet, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ordered the military to secretly hold a suspected terrorist in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said.

The suspected terrorist has been held since October without being given an identification number and without the International Committee of the Red Cross being notified, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said. Both conditions violate the Geneva Accords on treatment of prisoners of war.

Rumsfeld ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to have the prisoner secretly detained on the day last October, when Tenet made the request, Whitman said.