A Man Wrongly Tortured for 9/11 Remains in Guantanamo

Sep 10, 2016, 11:57 AM

It is one thing to be tortured, still another to be tortured and silenced, and something worse altogether to be tortured, silenced and forgotten. Like Dante’s Hell, Abu Zubaydah descends from one torment to another, each worse than the last.

Wednesday evening, Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump engaged in some election-year pot-banging about national security. Trump vowed to engorge the military and defeat ISIS with a secret plan. Clinton promised to stay the course set by President Obama.