Some of the information may have been obtained through torture.
We now find out that a justification for going to war in Iraq was based on bad intelligence that may have been obtained through torture.
On Tuesday, his chief lawyer, Josef Gräsaid-Münscher, said that any material handed over by the Americans would be tainted because it might have been obtained through torture.
Parapsychology, Discipline concerned with investigating events that cannot be accounted for by natural law and knowledge that cannot have been obtained through the usual sensory abilities.
The court decided this month that Abu Qatada could not be removed to Jordan because there was a danger he would be tried there on evidence that may have been obtained through torture.
Last month, the administration unveiled a plan to revise corporate and accounting rules, including a proposal that executives be forced to forfeit any gains from stock sales that might have been obtained through fraudulent or improper conduct.
It included the claim: "The Agency takes no position on whether intelligence obtained from detainees who were subjected to [torture] could have been obtained through other means or from other individuals.
Should we be able to deport someone for trial in a country where the evidence against him may have been obtained through torture – the ultimate sticking point in the ongoing Abu Qatada saga?
Mr. Motassadeq's lawyers are seeking to head off the prospect of damaging new disclosures by arguing that any statements made by suspected terrorists in American prisons would be inadmissible as evidence because they might have been obtained through torture.
"The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means," Admiral Blair said in a written statement issued last night.
The committee's ombudsperson, Kimberley Prost, who has served as a judge on the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, acknowledged that her office did not automatically exclude evidence that might have been obtained through torture.
