A steel barn that's about to hit the market in Lithuania wouldn't normally attract international attention, but then again, there aren't too many barns out there that.
A group of seven US military officials who heard graphic descriptions last week of the brutal treatment of a terrorist while in the custody of the CIA after 9/11 called his treatment by the agency "a source of shame for the US government".
The depiction by former al-Qaeda courier Majid Khan came at a sentencing hearing for war crimes and was the first time anyone who went through it detailed it in public.