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Accused terrorist Jose Padilla wants to describe how he was treated in a military brig. The government is trying to keep him quiet.
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By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek
Updated: 7:41 p.m. ET Nov 29, 2006
Nov. 29, 2006 - A looming court fight over claims that one-time enemy combatant Jose Padilla was “tortured” by the U.S. military is threatening to create new difficulties for one of the Bush administration’s most high-profile terrorism cases.
In a motion last week, the Justice Department asked a federal judge to block any public testimony about the circumstances of Padilla’s interrogations during the more than three years he was detained and interrogated in a military brig in South Carolina. For most of that time, Padilla, a 35-year-old Brooklyn-born U.S. citizen who was raised in Chicago, was held incommunicado, unable to meet with his lawyer or any other visitors.
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Accused terrorist Jose Padilla wants to describe how he was treated in a military brig. The government is trying to keep him quiet.
Web Exclusive
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek
Updated: 7:41 p.m. ET Nov 29, 2006
Nov. 29, 2006 - A looming court fight over claims that one-time enemy combatant Jose Padilla was “tortured” by the U.S. military is threatening to create new difficulties for one of the Bush administration’s most high-profile terrorism cases.
In a motion last week, the Justice Department asked a federal judge to block any public testimony about the circumstances of Padilla’s interrogations during the more than three years he was detained and interrogated in a military brig in South Carolina. For most of that time, Padilla, a 35-year-old Brooklyn-born U.S. citizen who was raised in Chicago, was held incommunicado, unable to meet with his lawyer or any other visitors.
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