NAPOLITANO: U.S. Government Shot Itself in the Foot By Torturing 9/11 Mastermind
Judge says George W. Bush and Dick Cheney’s bloodlust hurt case, which is why there’s a plea deal
Gerald Celente and Judge Andrew Napolitano held their “Celente and the Judge” YouTube broadcast on Wednesday and spoke about why the masterminds of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, will likely never face the death penalty and reach a plea deal.
NAPOLITANO: They’re afraid to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed because they don’t want the U.S. government to be exposed for what it truly is.
Here's the way the law of torture works. George Bush and Dick Cheney’s legal advisers and torturers didn't know it – which is funny because law students know this in their first year. If somebody is being tortured and he says to the torturers, “I did it,” and then they stopped the torture, and a month later he says, “I did it,” both statements are excludable. Neither statement is usable. These jerks thought that by inflicting this pain they would get these guys to repeat it after the pain stopped… the courts still don't admit it. So nothing that these people said, no matter what they did to them, is admissible in the case against them. So by torturing them the government weakened its own case against them.”