But its silence, together with copies of correspondence between the company and the commission obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by SEC Insight, a private research company in Plymouth, Minn., prompt a flurry of questions.
Unlike ordinary American courts, the commissions can admit as evidence information obtained through coercion (but not torture).
"The purpose of the commissions is to convict people on evidence they obtained through torture and keep the evidence of torture out of the courtroom," Ms. Musa said.
Imagine that our service members had been tortured or abused, and that the commissions hearing their cases allowed into evidence statements obtained through coercion.
And he proposed changes that would make the commissions' procedures a less outrageous miscarriage of justice: among them, banning testimony obtained through abuse and torture; tightening rules on the admission of hearsay; and expanding prisoners' access to counsel.
The military commission trials of five detainees continue to move forward, even with the possibility of evidence obtained through torture and ill treatment.
Under the Military Commissions Act, evidence derived through torture is inadmissible, but prosecutors can build cases with evidence obtained through coercion.
When President Bush created the military commissions, their purpose was to ensure the conviction of detainees on the basis of evidence obtained through torture.
The military commission system at Guantánamo is stacked against the detainees with the use of "secret evidence, hearsay and evidence obtained through torture".
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The commissions have been criticized as favoring military prosecutors and for permitting the use of evidence that would not be allowed in American courts, including certain types of hearsay and confessions obtained through coercion.
