And those failures linger. Last month:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/us/politics/september11-c...

> In a major blow to the U.S. case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the man accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, a military judge ruled on Friday that the prisoner’s confessions to F.B.I. agents were not voluntary and cannot be used against him at trial.

> … his confessions have always been challenged because the government used torture to question him in secret C.I.A. prisons years before he was charged.

It's beyond embarrassing how the Bush admin took cases that in 2003 would have produced a slam dunk guilty verdict from any federal court in the country and decided to taint the evidence with torture (producing a bunch of spurious unactionable garbage) to be "tough", so instead they've been in legal limbo for 2 decades.

> so instead they've been in legal limbo for 2 decades.

aka in prison for 2 decades. funny, isn't it?