Guantanamo Defense Lawyer Resigns, Says U.S. Is Crafting a 'show trial'
/Last week, Maj. Jason Wright -- one of the lawyers defending [accused 9/11 mastermind, facing a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- resigned from the Army. He has accused the U.S. government of "abhorrent leadership" on human rights and due process guarantees and says it is crafting a "show trial." For nearly three years, he served on Mohammed's defense team. Wright says Mohammed in particular has faced a level of torture "beyond comprehension." He says his client was waterboarded by the CIA 183 times and subjected to over a week of sleep deprivation; there were threats that his family would be killed. "And those are just the declassified facts that I'm able to actually speak about," Wright says.
