There is currently a US citizen in jail based on evidence from "enhanced interrogation" techniques

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http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/04/war-crimes-and-evidence.html

21 Apr 2009 02:53 pm

War Crimes And The Destruction Of Evidence

One of the signs that war criminals acknowledge that what they are doing is wrong is their destruction of the evidence. When high officials in any government are determined to lose or destroy evidence of interrogations, it's a pretty good sign that something is awry. And the key evidence that would illustrate the torture of Zubaydah and KSM would be videos of the torture sessions. Sure enough, these were destroyed. snip

The key case of Jose Padilla, an American citizen, also hinged on evidence of his interrogation. Padilla, so far as we know, was not waterboarded, but he was subject to all the other "enhanced interrogation" techniques. And the hard evidence of those interrogations also mysteriously vanished:

The missing DVD dates from March 2, 2004. It contains a video of the last interrogation session of Padilla, then a declared 'enemy combatant' under an order from President Bush, while he was being held in military custody at a U.S. Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. But in recent days, in the course of an unusual court hearing about Padilla's mental condition, a government lawyer disclosed to a surprised courtroom that the Defense Intelligence Agency — which had custody of the evidence — was no longer able to locate the DVD. As a result, it was not included in a packet of classified DVDs that was recently turned over to defense lawyers under orders from Judge Cooke.

The disclosure that the Pentagon had lost a potentially important piece of evidence in one of the U.S. government's highest-profile terrorism cases was met with claims of incredulity by some defense lawyers and human-rights groups monitoring the case. "This is the kind of thing you hear when you’re litigating cases in Egypt or Morocco or Karachi," said John Sifton, a lawyer with Human Rights Watch, one of a number of groups that has criticized the U.S. government’s treatment of Padilla. "It is simply not credible that they would have lost this tape. The administration has shown repeatedly they are more interested in covering up abuses than getting to the bottom of whether people were abused."

[Solly Mack]

1. Yep

K&R

[seemslikeadream]

2. yep

[Mnemosyne]

3. Yep.

knr

Never forget.

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4. knr nt

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5. John Walker Lindh had an interesting interrogation before confessing.

Upon capture, Lindh was given basic first aid and then questioned for a week at Mazār-e Sharīf, before being taken to Camp Rhino on December 7, 2001, the bullet still within his thigh. <18><19> When Lindh arrived at Camp Rhino he was stripped and he was restrained to a stretcher, blindfolded and placed in a metal shipping container, which was procedure for dealing with a potentially dangerous detainee associated with a terrorist organization. While bound to the stretcher his picture was taken by American military personnel.<20> While at Camp Rhino he was given Tylox for pain and Valium.<21> He was later to complain that as military personnel passed the echoing cargo container around each 24 hour cycle, they hammered on its metal sides and shouted abuse and threats. He remained in severe pain from the bullet that remained in his leg. The photograph of him naked was cropped so as not to show his leg wound. On at least one occasion he was interrogated while naked, drugged and with the bullet still in his leg. On December 8th and 9th he was interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)<19>. He was held at Camp Rhino until he was transferred to USS Peleliu on December 14, 2001<22>

He was interrogated before the operation on December 14. While on the Peleliu, he signed confession documents while he was held by the United States Marine Corps and informed his interrogators that he was not merely Taliban but al-Qaeda, though his father later asserted he was not involved in, and unaware of, al-Qaeda. On December 31, 2001, he was transferred to the USS Bataan, where he was held until January 22, 2002, when he was flown off the Bataan to begin the journey back to the United States to face criminal charges. While on the USS Bataan, Attorney General John Ashcroft, on January 16, 2002, announced that Lindh would be tried in the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_Lindh

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6. This was not about stopping an attack, it was PR,

if they wanted to stop an attack, they would have put him under surveillance and found out who is co-conspirators were. The Bush administration repeatedly screwed up intelligence gathering for PR purposes, thereby increasing risk to the US and other countries.