> 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.
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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.