Col. Matthew McCall toured the part of the prison at Guantánamo Bay where, in 2007, federal agents obtained now-disputed confessions from terrorism suspects.
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — A defense lawyer asked a military judge Monday to dismiss the Sept. 11 conspiracy charges against a Saudi prisoner who was tortured in CIA custody, describing the secret overseas prison network where the man was held as part of a “vast criminal international enterprise” that trafficked in torture.
An undisclosed government agency declassified the secret intelligence program as the prosecution pushes to defend F.B.I. interrogations after C.I.A. torture.
A psychologist working for the C.I.A. had threatened while interrogating Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to kill one of his preteen sons. But they were never in U.S. custody.