A tale of two decisions (or, how the FBI gets you to confess)

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Read this, please.

It needs to be seen by lots of people.

Please go to Psychosound and read A Tale of Two Decisions about how the cat got out of the bag that the FBI coerced confessions out of an innocent man by threatening to send his family to Egypt to be tortured.

Last week the US Court of Appeals in Manhattan sided with a man who was coerced by American officials to confess to a non-existent connection to 9-11.

Then within a few hours of being released by the court the decision was pulled down. And when the court put the decision back up on the web, part of it had been marked out as classified.

Except that it had already been seen and distributed across the internet.

What was it that the court felt a need to help hide from the eyes of voters and taxpayers?

Just the information on the means used to coerce an innocent man to confess.