Questions Raised Over 3 Gitmo Detainee Suicides

The month after the Obama administration took office, according to the magazine, a father-son legal team that had been in contact with Hickman met in Washington, D.C., with two Justice Department lawyers and related what Hickman said he had seen the night of the three detainees’ deaths. That led to a meeting between Hickman and Teresa McHenry, head of the criminal division’s domestic security section at the Justice Department, who told Hickman’s lawyers that she was heading up an inquiry, Harper’s reported.

Two and one half months ago, McHenry called one of Hickman’s lawyers, Mark Denbeaux, and said that the Justice Department was closing the inquiry.

“The department took this matter very seriously,” Justice Department spokesperson Laura Sweeney said in response to the Harper’s article. “A number of department attorneys extensively and thoroughly reviewed the allegations and found no evidence of wrongdoing.”

Surely the Obama Administration wouldn’t lie to me, so I have no reason to think there is anything to this story.