According an article in the Washington Post, the Bush administration now claims in federal court that terrorism suspects should not be permitted to discuss the “alternative interrogation methods” used on them. According to the court documents the government’s position is that these methods are classified and essential to national security, and that a detainee talking about what was done to him (even to his own lawyer!) “could reasonably be expected to cause extremely grave damage.”

OK, I don’t need to comment on the bizarre Kafkaeske nature of this claim. But one thing strikes me as curious.

If these torture methods are truly classified, wouldn’t those employing them be guilty of revealing state secrets to the enemy?