IPFS News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
'Torture Report' could help defense of accused 9/11 plotters
• Yahoo! News blog.... The report reveals that the men accused of planning the September 11 attacks, as well as Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who's on trial for plotting the USS Cole bombing, were subjected to what the CIA called "enhanced interrogation" techniques, which included waterboarding, rectal feeding, prolonged sleep deprivation and being shackled in "stress" positions for days at a time.
Lawyers for the men plan to request access to the full report — only 11 percent of which was declassified this week in summary form — and now have a road map of which CIA documents they will ask the military commissions judge to give them access to in order to prove that their clients were tortured to the point that they became psychologically unstable....



