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Now we discover that the latest extremely non-political terror alert wasn't just based on three- and four-year old documents and computer files, but there were human informants as well:

The computer disks on which the case reports were found were linked to Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, a 25-year-old Pakistani computer engineer who was arrested by Pakistani authorities on July 13, American officials have confirmed.

Mr. Khan has been described as having cooperated with Pakistani and American interrogators, and some American officials said that the information he himself provided, as distinct from the computer records, may also have pointed to the prospect of a current threat of terrorism in New York and Washington.
(via the sadly credulous Times)

So, maybe if we had a free press in this country, someone would ask—based on the administration's existing and well-attested practice of torturing prisoners to gain information—"Sir, was Mr. Khan tortured to gain his cooperation?"

Because if Mr. Kham was tortured, his information was as useless as it seemed to be.

Three Britons freed from Guantanamo Bay claim they suffered systematic brutality and were kept in cages in the sweltering Cuban heat during their detention at the U.S. military base.

In a report released by their lawyers Wednesday, the men say the brutal treatment forced them to make false confessions.

"The idea that these three people were kept in this prison, this gulag and forced to make false confessions is amazing," Michael Ratner, head of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said at a news conference at the group's Manhattan offices.
(via AP)

Um, what's amazing about it?


NOTE Oh, QTWWA: "Questions the Whores Won't Ask."