US Government Advised Release of Lockerbie Bomber

Brother O and the Bread and Circuses administration secretly advised Scottish ministers to free the Lockerbie bomber rather than lock him up in a Libyan prison.

"[I]f Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that [Abdel Baset al-] Megrahi must be released from Scottish custody, the US position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose."—Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, in an August 12, 2009, letter to Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and justice officials

Members of the Bread and Circuses administration refused to grant Scottish authorities permission to publish the letter saying it would prevent future "frank and open communications" with other governments.

"The (LeBaron) letter is embarrassing for the US because it shows they were much less opposed to compassionate release than prisoner transfer."—Anonymous source close to the Senate inquiry

White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi

By Jason Allardyce and Tony Allen-Mills

THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be "far preferable" to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.

Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.

The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama's claim last week that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release.....The US has tried to keep the letter secret, refusing to give permission to the Scottish authorities to publish it on the grounds it would prevent future "frank and open communications" with other governments.... "