And speaking of torture...

I no longer subscribe to the NY Times but this was gifted to me: 

"A Pentagon appeals panel on Thursday upheld a judge’s decision in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case to forbid the use of the defendant’s confession as derived from torture.

The decision by the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review was still under seal. But Allison F. Miller, the lawyer for the defendant, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, said the panel unanimously rejected a U.S. government request to reinstate use of the confession at his upcoming death penalty trial.

Mr. Nashiri is accused of orchestrating the Qaeda suicide bombing attack on the warship in October 2000 in Aden harbor in Yemen. Seventeen soldiers were killed and dozens more were wounded. The trial date is set for Oct. 6, one week shy of the 25th anniversary of that attack."

read the rest here (maybe it will be the gift that keeps giving).

The Torture Guys

 Seems they are working there way back into the trump administration after 4 years off. Steven Bradbury's name did not get the same attention as his counterpart John Yoo but his hands are at least as bloody as Yoo's - if not more so. Now he has landed in the transportation department- same place he worked under trumps first term. I am sure that makes everyone feel safer in the air and on the roads. read more here.