CIA Role a Mystery at Army Court-Martial

AP ^ | 1/21/6 | JON SARCHE and DAN ELLIOTT

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FORT CARSON, Colo. -- The initials were spoken aloud only once all week, and then apparently by mistake. After this past week's testimony, any role the CIA had — or didn't have — in the interrogation of an Iraqi general who died in U.S. custody remains a tantalizing and mysterious backdrop to the court-martial of Army Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr.

The CIA is "the ghost at the banquet," said Eugene R. Fidell, an expert in military law who has been following the court-martial but doesn't know if the CIA was involved in the case.

"We're playing 'Hamlet' without Hamlet here," said Fidell, an attorney in private practice who teaches military law at American University in Washington. He also represented news organizations in their attempts to open pretrial hearings in Welshofer's prosecution.

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The CIA will only take credit but no negativity.

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