Through The Looking Glass

From the Washington Post:

The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.

The government says in new court filings that those interrogation methods are now among the nation's most sensitive national security secrets and that their release -- even to the detainees' own attorneys -- "could reasonably be expected to cause extremely grave damage." Terrorists could use the information to train in counter-interrogation techniques and foil government efforts to elicit information about their methods and plots, according to government documents submitted to U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Oct. 26.

Please notice that these are terrorism "suspects", not proven terrorists. They've been held incommunicado in secret prisons for years, and subjected to who-knows-what extra-legal treatment, and now the government somehow thinks they have a duty to preserve its secrets, and shouldn't even be able to tell their own lawyers what happened.

I know it doesn't seem to make sense in English, but I'm sure it's perfectly clear in Newspeak.