More from Army Reserve Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, the former military commissions prosecutor turned commissions foe whom I interviewed yesterday. He’s testifying this morning before a House Judiciary subcommittee against the commissions, and in his prepared remarks, he tells the story of how a self-described “true believer” in More…
The American Civil Liberties Union will file a brief tomorrow urging the federal court to suppress evidence gathered using torture, which the government wants to rely on in the case of Mohammed Jawad, the boy who “confessed” to throwing a grenade at U.S. soldiers after being arrested and tortured More…
The United States is relying on evidence obtained by torture to prove that it can continue to imprison indefinitely a young man arrested as an adolescent in Afghanistan six and a half years ago, according to documents filed with a federal district court.
Mohammed Jawad may have been as young More…
Not to be competitive about it or anything, but following up on Matt’s post, the case of Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan picked up at age 16 or 17 and tortured before he was transported to Guantanamo Bay, could rival even the Uighurs’ case for surreality.
Today, More…
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