Sunday, August 19, 2018

A Guantanamo update

In the U.S. case against five Guantanamo detainees who are accused of aiding in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, a military judge has ruled that prosecutors may not use statements the detainees made to FBI interrogators after they were removed from a secret CIA prison.
Army Colonel James Pohl, the judge for the proceedings, ruled on Friday that the detainees' statements, made to FBI "clean teams," were not to be used in the death penalty trial.
The detainees had been interrogated while being held in a network of secret overseas prisons run by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). After the detainees were transferred to the Guantanamo detention center, an FBI "clean team" -- agents who were not privy to the detainees' previous statements or interrogations -- again questioned the detainees.
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  1. Eugene R. FidellAugust 20, 2018 at 9:22 AM

    New York Times coverage can be found at https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/us/politics/guantanamo-detainees-fbi-interrogations.html, with link to Judge Pohl's ruling.

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