Matt Lehrer

So, to recap: first, the U.S. abducted Mohamed and refused to provide him with any access to lawyers or the outside world. Then — with no due process afforded — we shipped him around for the next couple of years to various countries that are the most notorious practitioners of torture, where agents of those countries and the CIA jointly conducted interrogations by brutally torturing him. Then, once he was broken beyond the point of return, we shipped him off to Guantanamo.

After six years in detention, we finally charged him with crimes in a Guantanamo military commission — based on confessions we extracted from him — but refused to provide him with the exculpatory evidence showing that those confessions were extracted by torture, even though, as the High Court noted:

We then threatened Britain that they had better keep the facts surrounding the torture concealed from the world or else we would no longer notify them of terrorist threats aimed at them.  And finally, when Mohamed sued in American courts over the rendition and torture he suffered, the U.S. Government — first the Bush administration and then the Obama administration — insisted that courts must not allow him a day in court because any discussion of what was done to him was a “state secret” and any disclosure at all would harm national security.

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