Guantánamo Prosecutors Ask to Strike Information Gained From Torture
The prosecutorsâ use of information from a brutal interrogation had troubled Biden administration lawyers and was a source of tension with the chief prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay, who will retire soon.
Camp Justice at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
Published July 17, 2021Updated July 18, 2021, 12:34 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON â Military prosecutors have asked to wipe from the record information gleaned from the torture of a detainee now held at Guantánamo Bay, reversing their earlier position that the information could be used in pretrial proceedings against the man.