A Tortured Silence

posted by The Vidiot @ 1:31 AM Permalink

U.S. Seeks Silence on CIA Prisons
Court Is Asked to Bar Detainees From Talking About Interrogations

The government says in new court filings that those interrogation methods are now among the nation's most sensitive national security secrets and that their release -- even to the detainees' own attorneys -- "could reasonably be expected to cause extremely grave damage." Terrorists could use the information to train in counter-interrogation techniques and foil government efforts to elicit information about their methods and plots, according to government documents submitted to U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Oct. 26.
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The government, in trying to block lawyers' access to the 14 detainees, effectively asserts that the detainees' experiences are a secret that should never be shared with the public. [...]

Can I see a show of hands of how many people think you can be trained to resist being drowned? Having your genitals shocked? Being strung up, hooded and forced to stand on a milk crate with your arms outstretched thinking you will die if you slip!?

And those are just the methods we have pictures of. I can't imagine the techniques the government wants to keep secret.

Holding people in a secret prison while you use "alternative interrogation methods" on them and then asking a judge to stop those people's lawyers from being told about it is un-American.

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