Former CIA captive appeals Gitmo trial

Lawyers for the man accused of orchestrating the USS Cole bombing have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the military tribunal at Guantanamo using accounts of the captive’s CIA torture drawn from declassified documents and an interrogator’s recent memoirs. In the petition, the lawyers ask the justices to let them challenge Abd al Rahim al Nashiri’s U.S. military detention in federal court — now, before his Guantanamo death-penalty tribunal — because the CIA subjected him to years of “physical, psychological and sexual torture.”