Lawyers representing five men accused of aiding the 9/11 attacks have said the U.S. government secretly destroyed evidence relating to the attacks which could prove their innocence. On May 11, defense lawyers asked judge Col. James Pohl to shut the case down after classified evidence emerged of a government cover-up. Activistpost.com reports: Major Poteet also told the Times that the defense was first informed in February that Colonel Pohl would provide them with a “summary of a substitute” for the original, classified evidence. The defense requested Colonel Pohl to preserve the evidence for the record and Pohl complied. Or so they thought. “But they learned in February, they said, that about 20 months earlier, and without their knowledge, prosecutors had obtained from Colonel Pohl a secret order that reversed his previous decision,” theTimes writes. “By the time they found out, the government had already destroyed the evidence, giving them no opportunity to challenge the move.” Major Poteet said the situation created the appearance that Colonel Pohl was “colluding with the government.” The Times reports that the original, now destroyed evidence, may have been related to one of several foreign black site prisons operated by the Central Intelligence Agency in Thailand, Poland, Romania, Lithuania [...]