He was detained, first in C.I.A. custody, where he was subjected to what he called "enhanced interrogation techniques" (those statements have not been made public); and later at Guantánamo.
In New York v. Quarles, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1984 carved out an exception to the requirement that a suspect must be read his rights prior to interrogation for his statements to be admissible in court.
Without the Miranda incantations to cleanse and dress up the circumstances of his interrogation, Lindh's statements to the FBI agent may have been ruled inadmissible and, in turn, the Government may have faced a harder path to obtaining a criminal conviction.
"Instead, the C.I.A. learned of the existence of the courier, his true name and location through means unrelated to the C.I.A. detention and interrogation program," the statement said, without elaborating.
Inevitably, the human drama of the victims took over – the testimony of the two men who survived the interrogations, the witness statements of the relatives of the dead, the transfixing portraits of the regime's "enemies" (which run into their thousands) – all this wrestled for one's attention and won it effortlessly.
After a six-hour interrogation, an official statement indicted Salman with "denigrating and disparaging the Interior Ministry".
Mr. Nashiri has yet to be tried because he was subjected to waterboarding and other so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, rendering his statements legally problematic, even those given after interrogators stopped using the counterproductive measures.
During interrogation she made several statements implicating herself, the police said.
Prosecutors chose not to introduce that evidence, even though they said that Mr. Ghailani's statements under interrogation at Guantánamo and earlier while in C.I.A. custody "amount to a confession" of his role in the plot.
Now, four years after that interrogation, the detainee's statements are at the center of a dispute in federal court in Manhattan, where the Brooklyn man, Sabirhan Hasanoff, 37, who was later arrested and pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism, faces sentencing this month.
