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. In 2004, 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.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179413