Talk about slowly boiling a frog...
Hey, Journalists - Remember That Other "20th Hijacker"? The One Abused at Guantanamo?
Let's go over that again. The military, under the direction of the current secretary of defense, abused al-Qahtani to a degree that horrified at least one Army investigator, allegedly forced a confession out of him, and then government officials trumpeted him as the definitive 20th hijacker. Now it turns out all that -- the sleep deprivation, the humiliation, the "degrading and abusive" treatment -- may have been aimed at the wrong man.
And no one, apparently, finds this worthy of mention.
Well, to be fair. At least al-Qahtani wasn't mentally deficient. If he was, you would be assured that our intrepid reporters would be all over this story like white on rice.
Totally.
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