Padilla Trial Coming to a Close

Closing arguments were scheduled for Monday in the case of accused terrorist Jose Padilla, a US citizen held in a Navy brig without charge for nearly four years. Defense psychiatrists have testified.

Jose Padilla had no history of mental illness when President Bush ordered him detained in 2002 as a suspected Al Qaeda operative. But he does now.

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Jose Padilla, thousands of Iraqi civilians, and a good number of American soldiers.

Some psychological tests place him on par with individuals who have suffered brain damage, according to the reports prepared by Hegarty, Grassian, and Patricia Zapf, a New York psychologist and psychology professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

Padilla's treatment in the brig is classified as a state secret.

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"There have been 12 major reviews conducted of detention operations over the past several years, none of which found there was any policy that ever condoned abuse," says Commander Gordon, the Pentagon spokesman.

Please note: none of the (military, I presume) reviews found there was any policy that condoned abuse. That says absolutely nothing about whether there was in fact any abuse perpetrated, does it?