A 9/11 defendant is ruled unfit for trial after a medical panel finds torture left him psychotic

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Brett Eagleson, whose father, Bruce Eagleson, was killed when one of the hijacked planes destroyed the south tower of the World Trade Center, called the events that forced the sidelining of al-Shibh’s prosecution “another example of the lack of justice that the 9/11 community has received at the hands of our own government.”

“They wrongfully tortured these individuals. We don’t stand for torture. Because of that we’re denied a trial. We’re denied true justice,” said Eagleson, who leads a group of victims’ families pushing the U.S. to release more of the documents of its investigations into the attacks.

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President Joe Biden this month declined to approve post-trauma care when defense lawyers presented it as a condition in plea negotiations. The administration said the president was unsettled by the thought of providing care and ruling out solitary confinement for the 9/11 defendants, given the historic scale of the attacks.

“Of course it's not popular" among Americans, Bruck said Friday. “Enforcing human rights, the most fundamental human rights, is often not popular. But we should do it.”

This is incredibly telling on US government officials' thoughts regarding human rights.

Fuck Biden. He's the old school "tough on crime", cop bootlicker type. The only thing he has going for him is that any candidate the GOP puts forth (especially Trump) is even worse on all those things.

I didn't realize the trials were still going on. And they really brutalized the suspects.

Trust me, this shit is still going on. It’s just another example of how broken the system is.

Remember when Obama wanted to close Gitmo, and couldn't do it after eight years? That's what I think about when I hear the words "deep state"

The behaviour of the US post 9/11 is in large part responsible for the mess we're in right now. They made it very clear that they don't give a fuck about their own rules and since then everybody what had been encouraged to do the same. In the nineties the US had at least some credibility as a moral authority. Since then, whenever Western countries try to call out dictatorial regimes for human rights abuses, they are just seen as hypocrites.

And Ron DeSantis watched it happen. Probably with a big grin on his face.

What US did/does is on another level of barbarism, unmatched. Conscious and industrialized toture.

"Our own government" and "They wrongfully tortured"

Did anyone else see the cognitive dissonance ? It is not that hard to spot that "our" government suddenly became "them" when torturing people.

We US Americans tortured those men and women. Not "them".

No. I did not vote for the people who authorized this. I do not accept responsibility, and Bush was only president thanks to a SCOTUS ruling.