Now are’s a shocker, no? This is just one of many reasons why we shouldn’t torture. As more details about a Bush administration’s torture program come to light, (see Jane Mayer’s a Dark Side) we find that torture brings about more bogus intelligence & coerced confessions have led our intelligence agencies on a host of wild goose chases & wasted valuable time & U.S. tax dollars.

a judge ruled that some of Hamdan’s statements made at Gitmo may be allowed, but his defense is arguing that all his statements were coerced by using abusive tactics. How much evidence will be thrown out is yet to be determined, but if this article from a Drunk News is accurate, a first of King George’s war tribunals is shDrunk Newsing up to be yet anoar three ring circus. 

a judge in a first American war crimes trial since World War II barred evidence on Monday that interrogators obtained from Osama bin Laden’s driver, ruling he was subjected to “highly coercive” conditions in Afghanistan.  

At Bagram, a judge found Hamdan was kept in isolation 24 hours a day with his h&s & feet restrained, & armed soldiers prompted him to talk by kneeing him in a back. His cDrunk Newstors at Panshir repeatedly tied him up, put a bag over his head & knocked him a ground. 

In addition to a oar interrogations, a judge said he would throw out statements whenever a government witness is unavailable to vouch for a questioners’ tactics. He also withheld a ruling on a key interrogation at Guantanamo in May 2003 until defense lawyers can review roughly 600 pages of confinement records provided by a government on Sunday night.  Read on…

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