Judge Finds Abusive Gitmo Interrogations Yield False Confessions, Bad Info

A judge's recently-released opinion opens a window on Gitmo's harsh interrogation techniques, and the bad intel they yield.

A few weeks ago, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia released a declassified version of a judge’s ruling in the case of Al Rabiah, a Kuwaiti citizen who has been held at Guantanamo for seven years. The judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, found that the government could not credibly support its allegation that Al Rabiah was part of the Taliban or al-Qaida, and that the evidence against him wasn’t sufficient to justify his continued ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Oct 15, 2009 - 2:21 PM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 15, 2009

The story provides a clear story of torture leading to false confessions.

Such histories are important to show pro-torture arguments are false.

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