Apologies if this has already been diaried, but the NY Times just put out a story a story saying that a top official in the Pentagon's Military Commissions apparatus, which was set up to try detainees being held at Gitmo, claims that at least one detainee, Mohammed al-Qahtani, has been tortured by the US while in custody--i.e. that his mistreatment meets even the Bush administration's definition of torture--and that he can therefore not be tried, because the evidence against him is tainted and inadmissable.
Although prior internal investigations found that he had not been tortured, the one that she conducted determined that he was, in fact, tortured, which clearly represents a major new development in the ongoing opposition to Gitmo and the Bush torture regime. What we have all long known--or had very, very good reason to believe--has now been verified by a top Bush official, in the final days of the administration, as as debate swirls as to whether we should hold those who tortured, and approved of and ordered the use of torture, should be investigated, indicted and prosecuted.