| ▲ | ceejayoz 4 hours ago | |
And those failures linger. Last month: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/us/politics/september11-c... > In a major blow to the U.S. case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the man accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, a military judge ruled on Friday that the prisoner’s confessions to F.B.I. agents were not voluntary and cannot be used against him at trial. > … his confessions have always been challenged because the government used torture to question him in secret C.I.A. prisons years before he was charged. | ||
| ▲ | qlte 23 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
It's beyond embarrassing how the Bush admin took cases that in 2003 would have produced a slam dunk guilty verdict from any federal court in the country and decided to taint the evidence with torture (producing a bunch of spurious unactionable garbage) to be "tough", so instead they've been in legal limbo for 2 decades. | ||