Terror case strategy under threat

Window panes in a hangar at Camp Justice, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. — ©2023 The New York Times Company

IN late 2006, in an effort to turn the page on a legacy of state-sponsored torture, prosecutors for the George W. Bush administration began an experiment at Guantanamo Bay.

They set up teams of law enforcement officers to try to obtain voluntary confessions from men who had spent years in brutal conditions in isolated CIA prisons.