What they discussed is not known, but they say that the Arabic-speaking Israeli who did the translating threw down his hat in disgust when the interrogation ended, while the Israeli commander slapped his hands together in apparent anger.
But he had previously discussed, in a 2007 interrogation while being detained at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, how he had gotten caught up in what turned out to be a Qaeda plot.
The US has denied that his treatment amounted to torture.But in 2010, Canada's Supreme Court ruled in Khadr's favor, saying Canadian officials violated his Charter rights by taking part in the interrogation while he was under duress, indefinitely detained and deprived of legal counsel.
In the ruling, the judge, Lewis A. Kaplan of Federal District Court in Manhattan, barred prosecutors from using an important witness against Mr. Ghailani because the government had learned about the man through Mr. Ghailani's interrogation while he was in C.I.A. custody, where his lawyers say he was tortured.
Future defendants will benefit fully from our new standards governing in-custody interrogation, while past defendants may still avail themselves of the voluntariness test.
Delaware also quotes our statement that only '(f uture defendants will benefit fully from our new standards governing incustody interrogation, while past defendants may still avail themselves of the voluntariness test.' Id., 384 U.S. at 732, 86 S.Ct., at 1780.
They are designed in part to assure that the person who responds to interrogation while in custody does so with intelligent understanding of his right to remain silent and of the consequences which may flow from relinquishing it.
I underwent 20 hours of vigorous interrogation while entire days were being completely wasted by the police micro-examining every detail of my life: my political activism, my writings, my work in theatre and dance, my love life, my photography, my cartooning, my magazine subscriptions, my bus tickets.
It's also true of an extraordinary video by an Indonesian artist, Reza Afisina, who literally slaps himself black-and-blue, as if under brutal interrogation, while reciting verses about truth telling and salvation from the New Testament.
A federal judge in Manhattan on Friday rejected a request that he appoint a lawyer to represent a terror suspect who was captured last weekend in Libya and was said to be undergoing interrogation while in military custody on a Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea.
