Extending habeas corpus rights to unlawful enemy combatants wouldimpede military operations, undermine the laws of war, andunnecessarily burden an already fair legal process.
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba: A prisoner accused of plotting al-Qaida’s bombing of the USS Cole warship in 2000 told federal interrogators years later that he was waterboarded by the CIA, an interpreter testified Thursday. But that detail was omitted from the official account of the interrogations that prosecutors want to use at his death-penalty trial as evidence that he confessed.
One of the psychiatrists who waterboarded detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri multiple times in 2002 testified recently that Gina Haspel, who later became director of the CIA, observed the torture sessions at the US-run black site in Thailand that was under her direction.