Malcolm Nance gagged by Pentagon

I guess it's now illegal for anyone to say anything that might possibly embarrass Bush:

There's an empty chair at Malcolm Nance's hearing before a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on torture this morning. That chair was supposed to be occupied by Marine Lt. Colonel Stuart Couch. Earlier this year, Couch, a then a prosecutor, refused to bring charges against a 9/11-linked detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, after determining that the basis for the charges -- Slahi's confession -- were yielded by torture, as the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year.

The subcommittee wanted to hear about Couch's experiences. But the Pentagon refused to let him testify.