Today we post a chapter which pieces together the interconnected, serial tortures of Abu Zubaydah, Binyam Mohamed, and Jose Padilla.
In we saw how the interrogations of these three men formed the entire basis of an alleged 鈥渄irty bomb鈥 plot the Bush administration knew from the start was a far-fetched fiction鈥攁nd how the administration resorted to torture in these interrogations not to thwart an impending attack but to produce false confessions and testimonies it would try to use against these three and others. We saw how, as always, the principle fruits of torture are bad information and more torture.
In we followed Jose Padilla's case as it made its way through the courts. Now, in , we take a similar look at the proceedings against Binyam Mohamed, who today is a free man in England, and end where we began this first full section of the Torture Report, with Abu Zubaydah, whose White House-orchestrated torture we chronicled in and who remains in complete legal limbo in Guant谩namo.
There have been several developments in the last two weeks relating to the ground we've covered in the report's first four chapters, and I'll cover them here in in the days ahead.
For now, though, I'd just like to encourage you to , and in its entirety. It's a story everyone should know.