So says Bush administration official Susan Crawford, the convening authority for the military kangaroo court at Gitmo:

“We tortured [Mohammed al-]Qahtani,” said Susan J. Crawford, in her first interview since being named convening authority of military commissions by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in February 2007. “His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that’s why I did not refer the case” for prosecution.

Now could we please get Barack Obama to assign Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate this?