"The Pentagon has announced rules for the trials of alleged terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo Bay that allow hearsay evidence and testimony extracted through coercion, including torture, in cases that could result in the death penalty. The use of "evidence obtained by torture" after Dec. 30, 2005, is prohibited under the rules, but judges can allow evidence extracted through torture committed before that date if they deem it reliable. The rules were included in a 238-page trial manual that accompanies the law passed by Congress this fall to re-establish the military commissions originally authorized by President George W. Bush to pursue the presumed terrorist prisoners."