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The thing that confuses me is this:
It is now forbidden for the torture victims to tell even their own lawyers how they were tortured. If even ONE of those detainees is ever released, exactly how is the government going to stop them from telling, well, anybody? Particularly since many of them are foreign nationals! Are we going to assign CIA agents to each one of them, ready to liquidate if they try to speak to the press in their counties?
Or does this just make it all the less likely that we'll ever release ANY detainee, whether they're guilty or not?
As for any Americans that might be held and tortured (now or in the future), I wonder what legal basis there is to stop a released citizen from speaking about such an experience? I know that habeas corpus is gone, but did Congress eliminate the First Amendment while we weren't looking, too?
