WASHINGTON, April 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush and his top aides knew many Guantanamo detainees were innocent, an aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell says.
Lawrence Wilkerson said in a deposition for a lawsuit by a former detainee that Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were all aware more than half the detainees first held at Guantanamo were not terrorists, The Times of London reported Friday. Wilkerson, Powell's chief of staff at State, said the administration thought "it would be politically impossible to release them."