Washington, Oct 31 (ANI): A former lawyer for the US government at Guant namo Bay has accused the administration he served of operating a "law-free zone" on the island.
Retired colonel Morris Davis served as the chief prosecutor from September 2005 to October 2007 when he resigned to protest the interrogation tactics that politicians were pushing Guantanamo officials to use.
"I told my prosecution team that I would not use any enhanced interrogation techniques - we didn't need to. We had these political appointees telling us to get in there and use them," the Daily Mail quoted Davis, as saying.
Davis said that some senior civilian Bush administration officials chose Guantanamo to interrogate detainees because they thought it is a law-free zone where they could unlawfully handle cases.
He said that civilian politicians used the President as justification for torture, claiming 'President Bush said we don't use torture, so if the president said it's not torture, who are you to say it is?'
"No court has jurisdiction over Guantanamo. We have turned our backs on the law and created what we believed was a place outside the law's reach," Davis said.
"There is a point when enough is enough, and you have to look at yourself in the mirror. Torture has no place in American courts," he added.
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp was opened on the US naval base in Cuba in January 2002, though President Bush signed the executive order creating the camp on November 18, 2001.
Due to the secret nature of the evidence, religious tensions among prisoners and high-profile aspects of many of the detainees, the camp, and those involved, have always remained controversial issue. (ANI)
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