In late 2006, in an effort to turn the page on a legacy of state-sponsored torture, prosecutors for the George W. Bush administration began an experiment at Guantánamo Bay.
They set up teams of law enforcement officers to try to obtain voluntary confessions from men who had spent years in brutal conditions in isolated C.I.A.
A military judge declared that experiment a failure, at least in one case.
In a wide-ranging ruling, Col. Lanny J. Acosta Jr. threw out a confession that federal agents at Guantánamo Bay obtained in 2007 from a Saudi prisoner who is accused of plotting the suicide bombing of the U.S.S.
But Mr. Nashiri, who was arrested in 2002, had spent four years in secret C.I.A.
Persons:
George W, Bush, Lanny J, Acosta Jr, Cole, Abd al, Rahim, Nashiri, ”
Organizations:
Saudi
Locations:
Aden, Yemen, U.S