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Judging Detainees’ Risk, Often With Flawed Evidence

Date: April 24, 2011

Authors: Scott Shane and Benjamin Weiser

QUOTE: The documents reveal that the analysts sometimes ignored serious flaws in the evidence… They include detainees’ admissions without acknowledging other government documents that show the statements were later withdrawn, often attributed to abusive treatment or torture.

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Key People:

• Osama bin Laden
• Abu Zubaydah
• Judge Laurence H. Silberman

Key Organizations:

• Al Qaeda
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• Department of Defense (DOD)/Defense Department
• New York Times Company
• Taliban
• Wikileaks.org

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
  • Control / Access / Permission
    • Principles / Guidelines / Rules / Policy
  • Tactics
  • Timing / Delay / Procrastination

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • Human Rights
      • Torture
    • International Relations/Diplomacy
      • War/Military
        • Treatment of Combatants
    • National Security / Secrecy

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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