Obama ‘Concerned and Disappointed’ After Journalist Who Exposed US War Crimes Freed

I think all of this needs to be told. Obama doesn't have the right to ask anyone to keep an innocent person in jail no matter who it is.. As for the AUDACITY TO EXPOSE, HOW ABOUT THE AUDACITY TO MURDER INNOCENT MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN THAT HAS DONE NO HARM TO THE CORPORATIONS THAT DID THE HARM.THE CORPORATIONS BIGGEST FEAR IS THAT THE WORLD WILL KNOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN'T BE BLAMED FOR SOMETHING WE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH. SO NOW THERE WILL BE NO WHERE THAT THESE EVIL PEOPLE CAN HIDE. INSTEAD OF ALL THE HARM THEY HAVE DONE, THEY COULD HAVE FOUND A BETTER WAY WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THEIR GREED.

Obama ‘Concerned and Disappointed’ After Journalist Who Exposed US War Crimes Free

Abdulelah Haider Shaye ‘put in prison because he had the audacity to expose’ deadly US drone strike

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – APRIL 03: Anti-war demonstrators holds signs and stand next to a model of a drone as they protest near the site of a fundraiser on April 3, 2013 in San Francisco, California. Hundreds of protesters staged a demonstration against war and the Keystone XL pipeline outside of a fundraiser to be attended by U.S. President Barack Obama at the home of Ann and Gordon Getty. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

By Jacob Chamberlain
Common Dreams
July 26,2013

The White House is “concerned and disappointed” over the news that Yemeni Journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye, who was kept in a Yemeni jail for three years per the request of the Obama administration after he exposed a deadly U.S. drone strike, was released Tuesday.

Following news of Shaye’s release, journalist Jeremy Scahill, who has written extensively about Shaye’s story, contacted the White House for a comment.

The White House’s response was brief and alarming:

We are concerned and disappointed by the early release of Abd-Ilah al-Shai, who was sentenced by a Yemeni court to five years in prison for his involvement with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

According to Scahill and numerous other journalists who have followed the story, Shaye’s only involvement with Al Qaeda was conducting interviews with their members for major news outlets that included the Washington Post, ABC News and the New York Times.

Shaye’s legal troubles only arose after he uncovered the deadly U.S. strike that killed dozens of innocent Yemeni civilians, after which he was thrown in prison. At one point Shaye was slated for early release, but a phone call from president Obama urged Yemeni officials to keep him behind bars.

“We should let that statement set in,” Scahill said of the White House’s response. “The White House is saying that they are disappointed and concerned that a Yemeni journalist has been released from a Yemeni prison.”

“This is a man who was put in prison because he had the audacity to expose a U.S. cruise missile attack that killed three dozen women and children.”
Watch Scahill in an interview with Democracy Now!, which aired Thursday morning:

http://intellihub.com/2013/07/26/obama-concerned-and-disappointed-after-journalist-who-exposed-us-war-crimes-freed/