Lawyers, judge hold secret Guantánamo hearing on CIA black sites

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- A military judge held a secret war court session Saturday on defense lawyers’ efforts to uncover evidence of what the CIA did to the alleged USS Cole bomber during years in the agency’s clandestine overseas prison network.

Both the public and the alleged terrorist were excluded from the 111-minute hearing in the case that seeks the execution of Abd al Rahim al Nashiri as mastermind of the Oct. 12, 2000, terror attack that killed 17 U.S. sailors off Aden, Yemen.

...At issue Saturday, according to the judge’s closure order, was some aspect of a sweeping motion by Nashiri’s lawyers that seeks a list of the places where the CIA kept Nashiri from 2002-2006. It also seeks details of his interrogations; the names of the agents and other staff at the CIA prisons, including medical personnel; blood and saliva tests conducted on him and drugs given to him; and White House memos on the secret program.

“The government cannot be allowed to withhold information related to Mr. al-Nashiri's detention and torture in blacksites,” the lawyer argued in the motion. “The inhumane treatment Mr. al-Nashiri sustained in these blacksites is one of the many areas of mitigation the defense must independently investigate to meet the standard of care in this capital case.”

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba: Lawyers, judge hold secret Guantánamo hearing on CIA black sites - Guantánamo - MiamiHerald.com

 

[DGS49]

POW's are not rightly the beneficiaries of the Bill of Rights.

Only an idiot would propose that we treat POW's in the same way as we would treat a U.S. citizen accused of a "crime."

It is a whole different paradigm: POW vs. accused criminal.

Only a Democrat would believe otherwise.

 

[Disir]

POW's are not rightly the beneficiaries of the Bill of Rights.

Only an idiot would propose that we treat POW's in the same way as we would treat a U.S. citizen accused of a "crime."

It is a whole different paradigm: POW vs. accused criminal.

Only a Democrat would believe otherwise.

I'm not a Democrat. Could we try again?