Confessions Obtained by Threatening a Teenager with Rape are OK

Let me clarify. This is at Gitmo, not down at your local county lock-up... not yet, anyway.

And to be specific, the threat wasn't just that the 15 year old boy would be raped. No, the boy's interrogator, U.S. Army Sergeant Joshua Claus has testified that the threat was that he would be "gang-raped to death" if he did not cooperate.

As reported by The Raw Story:

In one of the first military commissions held under the Obama administration, a US military judge has ruled that confessions obtained by threatening the subject with rape are admissible in court.

The case involves Omar Ahmed Khadr, a citizen of Canada who was apprehended in Afghanistan when he was 15 years old and has remained in Guantanamo Bay for the last seven years awaiting trial for terrorism and war crimes.

Read the whole sad, sickening thing at Raw Story.

I have to find some way to get that damned Lee Greenwood song out of my head.

[all emphasis mine]