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Citing dirty evidence to defend dubious detentions By Andy Worthington On the eve of the 2008 presidential election, the New York Times (11/3/08) published a front-page article headlined “Next President Will Face Test on Detainees,” which attempted to highlight the problems that Barack Obama will face in pursuing his pledge to BY HERB JACKSON The Bush administration’s detention and treatment of suspected terrorists must be investigated by an independent commission, a former New Jersey attorney general who was the top lawyer on the 9/11 Commission told a Senate committee today. John Farmer, now in private practice in Chatham, told the Senate Judiciary By The Editors A detainee in Guantánamo Bay. (Photo: Brennan Linsley/Associated Press) Susan Crawford, the senior Pentagon official who dismissed charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Guantánamo detainee, said in a published report on Wednesday that she had concluded that he had been tortured by interrogators. “His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that’s By Simon Montlake A federal judge has ordered the release of an Al Qaeda suspect held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, because of insufficient evidence that the Chadian national was an “enemy combatant.” The judge told that Vice President Cheney gives an exit interview to Jim Lehrer tonight, a transcript of which was just released by the White House. Cheney is asked at length about his current approval rating and whether it makes him sad. It doesn’t. Cheney also responds to today’s Washington Post story in which Susan Crawford alleged that Mohammed US agents at Guantanamo Bay tortured a Saudi man suspected of involvement in the 11 September attacks, the official overseeing trials at the camp has said. Susan Crawford told the Washington Post newspaper that Mohammad al-Qahtani had been left in a “life-threatening condition” after being interrogated. The Pentagon said their methods were legal in 2002, when |
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