Writing for Newsweek, CERL Advisory Council Member Mark Fallon discusses how military commissions established at Guantánamo Bay continue to consider cases related to the USS Cole bombing and the September 11 attacks. He argues that much of the decision-making that led to the dysfunction at the detention facility ties back to the misuse of psychological theory to justify torture. Torture provides questionable intelligence and also severely hampers any related legal proceedings due to the coercive nature of any evidence gathered in the investigation.

Mark Fallon is the co-founder of Project Aletheia at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, director of ClubFed, LLC, and a member of the CERL Advisory Council. He is the author of Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture. Read his bio here.

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