It was nauseating to read your account of the torture inflicted on terrorist suspect Majid Khan at the Guantanamo detention facility ("Guantanamo Bay detainee from Baltimore County details torture," June 3).
As a pacifist who has protested the wars and the prison camp at Guantanamo, I am well aware that my government ordered soldiers and contractors to torture.
Yet reading what happened to Mr. Khan reminded me that those who ordered the torture have never been charged with a crime. How can any U.S. government official dare to challenge other countries over their human rights violations?
When some U.S. citizens were imprisoned overseas, their jailers taunted them about what was being done at Guantanamo — even though it was understood that torture does not work.
The Sun reported that a summary of a report on U.S. involvement in torture was released by the Senate Intelligence Committee in December but that the full report remains classified.
The rest of the report must be declassified and made available to the public even though its contents are so revolting and repugnant that the powerful are resisting its release.
Meanwhile, Mr. Khan was convicted of terrorist activities, but he has yet to be sentenced. So his torture continues.
Max Obuszewski, Baltimore