No right to counsel if you've been tortured. Counsel might learn about it.

Today's outrage:

WASHINGTON - A suspected terrorist who spent years in a secret CIA prison should not be allowed to speak to a civilian attorney, the Bush administration argues, because he could reveal the agency's closely guarded interrogation techniques.

If it weren't so sickening, this would be utterly laughable. It's not the "enemy" they care about, it's the public in America they want to hide this stuff from. Once Americans learned that we were pulling peoples' fingernails out slowly, one by one and then putting cigarettes out in the wounds they wouldn't be quite so gleeful about these so-called "harsh, but not torture" techniques.

Meanwhile, of course, it's perfectly okay that the government published plans for building an A-bomb on the internets claiming that proved Iraq had WMDs. In fact those plans came from the developments that the Iraqis were undertaking prior to the first Gulf war not prior to the second one.

Liars!