If You're Confused about the New Jose Padilla Info

Join the club. The Justice Department came out today with a great deal more information that certainly makes it seem that they were right to detain him. But what I heard was that he was planning to blow up apartments using gas (as in natural gas), while the news media keeps saying he was going to blow up parts of cities using dirty bombs. There's a big difference between the two.

Yet, after all the time he's been held (remember, he's a citizen) without seeing an attorney, I don't know how well to access the nature of any statements he's made. Did we subject him to torture? Under torture, people tend to give very unreliable statements, typically delivering something closer to what they perceive the captors want to hear.

I would think the truth would be more important that just any incriminating statements they can wrench out of him.