(Signed) Barbara Dixon Officer in Charge for Internal Oversight Services

Dixon then told me a revealing story of one of his clients, Majid Khan, a so called high value detainee who was held for three years in CIA black sites. Khan was tortured, Dixon said, though the government would say that what happened to him is an intelligence source or method.

Mr. Dixon (United Kingdom), speaking on behalf of the European Union, inquired whether the Special Rapporteur's working methods would differ in any way from those of his predecessor.

Mr. Dixon (United Kingdom), speaking on behalf of the European Union, asked whether the Special Rapporteur saw any opportunity for improvement in the human rights crisis in Gaza.

We are subject in all detainee cases to a protective order, Dixon says. Under this order, everything the detainee says is classified, unless the Department of Defense Privilege Team decides otherwise.

The logical conclusion, according to Dixon, is that Khan must be detained for the rest of his life regardless of whether he is ever charged with a crime because if he was ever released, nothing would prevent him from disclosing this information.

On the other hand, Dixon continued, When the government does something to Khan that they say is classified, they have disclosed to him classified information. But since he doesn t have a security clearance, there is nothing that prevents him, unlike me, from saying to the outside world, This is what they did to me.

According to Wells Dixon, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents some of the detainees, the Obama administration cannot risk calling the torture practices crimes, so it calls them classified sources and methods that cannot be revealed in court. I can t even tell you about the way my clients were tortured or I will be prosecuted, he says.