Our government can continue to deny that we torture because it is a secret and the detainees are not allowed to talk about it in court. Tricky!

The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.

The government says in new court filings that those interrogation methods are now among the nation's most sensitive national security secrets and that their release -- even to the detainees' own attorneys -- "could reasonably be expected to cause extremely grave damage." Terrorists could use the information to train in counter-interrogation techniques and foil government efforts to elicit information about their methods and plots, according to government documents submitted to U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Oct. 26.

The government, in trying to block lawyers' access to the 14 detainees, effectively asserts that the detainees' experiences are a secret that should never be shared with the public.

I am constantly amazed that this administration can be so clumsy in attempting to cover their crimes, and then get away with it because they bully everyone with talk of "state secrets" and "national security concerns". It certainly does not take a genius to figure out that they are hiding the fact that they have indeed tortured these detainees. And they will continue doing it if somebody does not start providing oversight and hold them accountable.