Quick, someone mention Jack Bauer's name! That'll make this all right!! From News.com.au:
The Pentagon official overseeing the tribunals for Guantanamo Bay detainees has concluded that the US military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the September 11, 2001 attacks, The Washington Post reported today.
"We tortured (Mohammed al-) Qahtani," Susan Crawford said in an interview with the newspaper."His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that's why I did not refer the case" for prosecution.
Ms Crawford, a retired judge who also worked in the Reagan Administration, is the first senior
President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have said that the US does not torture.
Bush Administration official responsible for reviewing practices at Guantanamo to publicly state that a detainee was tortured.
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