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Published by Roger Snyder
Nov
21
The Bush administration claims detainees can’t disclose how they were treated.
Washington Post Tuesday, November 21, 2006; Page A26
in the case of Guantanamo Bay inmate Majid Khan is one of the more
disturbing arguments the Bush administration has advanced in the legal
struggles surrounding the war on terrorism.
Mr. Khan was one of the
al-Qaeda suspects who was detained in a secret prison of the CIA and
subjected to “alternative” interrogation tactics — the
administration’s chilling phrase for methods most people regard as
torture. Now the government is arguing that by subjecting detainees to
such treatment, the CIA gives them “top secret” classified information
– and the government can then take extraordinary measures to keep them
quiet about it. If this argument carries the day, it will make
virtually impossible any accountability for the administration’s
treatment of top al-Qaeda detainees. And it will also ensure that key
parts of any military trials get litigated in secrecy.
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