Sunk cost?
If you think the settlement was offensive, how about a 60m cost to tax payers before a similar outcome? The same rules and application are for your sake ... you will never be turned over for torture.  This is not a lawsuit for Khadre's guilt or innocence, this is about it being against our laws to turn ANY PRISONER for torture. Our worst serial killer ... would win a lawsuit if they were tortured.  The folks angry about what the 15 year old did, do not understand why he would have won the case. We do not torture! And with this fiasco, either we change the law and start torturing, or we accept the government was guilty in handing him over to be tortured. But then, we would merely be the same despicable countries that do torture prisoners.