Lawsuit tries to force CIA, FBI to come clean
(NEWSER) - The ACLU is suing the federal government for ignoring its Freedom of Information Act inquiry into the detention and torture of an American citizen overseas. Naji Hamdan, who spent 20 years in California before moving to the United Arab Emirates in 2006, was arrested in August 2008 and, according to the ACLU, subjected to brutal interrogation methods. Hamdan says he was blindfolded, beaten, strapped into an electric chair, and locked nearly naked in a refrigerated room. He also says some of his interrogators were American. More»
