theflamesoftheman

Defenders of the enhanced interrogation techniques they are only techniques, after all have time and again that the treatment not to cross the line into the forbidden land of torture. Critics have made the story the United States used to track people for water boarding. Now we have some hard evidence in the form of the decisions of the federal courts.

Habeas corpus by the Supreme Court decision on Gitmo detainees, prisoners were always federal court hearings on the adequacy of their arrests.

And buried way down in the body of the Washington Post on Saturday reported on the hearing, this bomb:

The government also relied on Hatims interrogations and his testimony at military hearings, during which he is said to have admitted to training at an al-Qaeda military camp. Judges have been skeptical of such statements unless the government provides evidence that the men were not seriously mistreated. In Hatims case, the Justice Department did not dispute his contention that he was tortured in U.S. custody and that he made those admissions to avoid further mistreatment.

Thats the US Justice Department, not disputing a detainees contention that he was tortured in US custody; not insisting that he was subjected merely to enhanced techniques or any other tortured euphemism. In case you think thats an exceptional case, heres more:

Musaab al-Madhwani had admitted to interrogators and testified before military hearings that he had trained at an al-Qaeda camp and traveled with its members in Afghanistan and Pakistan, records show.

But the detainees attorneys argued that the statements were tainted because their client was brutally tortured while in U.S. custody before his arrival in Cuba. He confessed only to prevent further mistreatment, they argued. The government did not contest Madhwanis claims.

And

Binyam Mohamedprovided the government its most sensational allegation: He told interrogators that the Algerian trained at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. Kessler wrote that she could not credit Mohameds allegations because he had been mistreated in foreign and U.S. custody. The government did not dispute his well-publicized accounts of torture.

So far the ratio of detentions upheld to those rejected is 9 to 32. This in a federal court where the rules, according to the Post, have been set to favor the government.

Source: e-blogzine.com