According to Naomi Wolf in the Huffington Post, past detainees at Guantanamo Bay and CIA "black sites" are prohibited from sharing their experiences with the public for fear of releasing classified information. Since most of these detainees have been tortured, we are therefore prevented from hearing the deeds committed in our name by our government.
There is something essentially against our identity as Americans and freedom-loving people in what is going on here. A person's own experiences, even though experienced against his will (or particularly because of this) should be part of individual free expression. He has the right to tell it, and we have the right to hear it - it is his experience of torture. We should be able to hear what is being done in our name. It is shameful that a democracy suppresses evidence of its own misconduct. I don't believe this is what America stands for.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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