Statements Obtained Through Torture Ruled Inadmissible at Gitmo


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AP reports:

"The judge in the first American war crimes trial since World War II barred evidence on Monday that interrogators obtained from Osama bin Laden's driver, ruling he was subjected to "highly coercive" conditions in Afghanistan."

It's bad enough that prisoners were tortured by the U.S. or its local allies-- to admit those statements as evidence would surely add insult to injury. Thankfully it appears that we still have some shred of decency left.

I'm also interested to see what "crimes against humanity" the driver, a "Yemeni with a fourth-grade education," could have committed.  It sounds a lot like blaming Secret Service agents for Bush's actions.
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