The Bush administration wants to prevent a detainee once held in a secret CIA prison from speaking to a civilian attorney. Justice Department officials argue the suspect could disclose closely-held details of US interrogation techniques there, some of which critics believe amount to torture. From an AP report:
Human rights groups have questioned the CIA's methods for questioning suspects, especially following the passage of a bill last month that authorized the use of harsh but undefined interrogation tactics.
In recently filed court documents, the Justice Department said those methods, along with the locations of the CIA's network of prisons, are among the nation's most sensitive secrets. Prisoners who spent time in those prisons should not be allowed to disclose that information, even to a lawyer, the government said.
Link (thanks, Gila Monster)
