Court calls US “enhanced interrogation techniques” torture

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court hearing the case of a Guantanamo Bay inmate detained after the 9/11 attacks and subjected to brutal treatment by the CIA took the rare step of calling “enhanced interrogation techniques” torture. 
The Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco made the statement in a ruling allowing Abu Zubaydah’s lawyers to question two former CIA contractors on how the Palestinian man “was tortured.”
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