re: #578 drcordell
[Link: www.csmonitor.com…]
From that article:
Defense Department officials reject charges that Padilla was mistreated. “The government in the strongest terms denies Padilla’s allegations of torture – allegations made without support and without citing a shred of record evidence,” writes Navy Commander J.D. Gordon, a spokesman for the secretary of Defense, in an e-mail. “Any credible allegations of illegal conduct by US military personnel are taken seriously and looked into in painstaking detail.”
He adds, “There has never been a substantiated case of detainee abuse at Charleston Navy brig.”
I’ll take the word of a naval officer over that of a defense lawyer.