...“A stain on the moral fiber of America.” That’s how seven jurors, all senior military officers, described what happened to Majid Khan at secret CIA prisons overseas in the early years of the war on terror, where he said he was subjected to torture.

For Khan’s lawyers, Jenner & Block co-managing partner Katya Jestin and J. Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the jurors’ October 2021 clemency letter was powerful vindication for their client, who pleaded guilty to terrorism charges 10 years ago and has cooperated with U.S. authorities ever since. ...

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