• CIA ordered to speed up release of torture report

  On Wednesday, the Federal judge overseeing the American Civil Liberty Union’s Freedom of Information Act request for CIA...

   

• Met to probe torture collusion claims

  The Metropolitan Police are to investigate claims that British agents colluded in torture, Scotland Yard said. Officers are...

   

• How to Trap a Torture Judge

  It’s a problem that Jay Bybee is a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. How can he serve as a judge when he...

   

• CIA torture report delayed again

  The US Justice Department is again delaying the release of an internal CIA report on the agency’s secret detention...

   

• 700 doctors demand the removal of WMA president for involvement in torture

  700 doctors from 43 countries sent a letter of protest to the Word Medical Association (WMA), which is considered the WMA’s...

   

• Letter reveals Tony Blair knew of secret policy on terror interrogations

  Tony Blair was aware of the ­existence of a secret interrogation policy which ­effectively led to British citizens, and...

   

• New Evidence Of CIA Torture Program

  NEW YORK – The CIA today released still-highly redacted documents in which Guantánamo Bay prisoners describe abuse and...

   

• Obama smoothes passage of war spending bill by pledging to suppress torture photos

  Negotiators in the US House and Senate on Friday reached a tentative agreement on a $105.9 billion “emergency” war-funding...

   

• John Yoo, Donald Rumsfeld and the Systematic Torture of Prisoners

  On Jan. 17, 2003, Mary Walker, the Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo from the Pentagon’s top attorney....

   

• Torture documents need to be released

  Despite its repudiation of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” the Obama administration continues to stifle...

   

• Ex-Bush lawyer can be sued over torture according to Judge

  A prisoner who says he was tortured while being held for nearly four years as a suspected terrorist can sue former Bush administration...

   

• CIA Director’s claims reinforce torture reality

  It’s no secret that during the Bush administration, the Central Intelligence Agency “rendered” suspected...

   

• Taser Torture as Summary Punishment for “Non-Compliance”

  The official rationale for issuing Tasers to police officers is that the electro-shock devices represent a “non-lethal”...

   

• Cheney personally oversaw briefings on torture

  Former Vice President Dick Cheney “personally” oversaw at least four briefings with members of Congress about the Bush...

   

• Amnesty Responds to CIA’s Denial of Former Vice President Cheney’s Request for Documents’ Release

  In response to today’s news from the Central Intelligence Agency that it was denying former Vice President Cheney’s...

   

• How Americans Came to Support Torture, in Five Steps

  By Roy Eidelson | In recent weeks, new revelations about the harsh interrogation and torture of detainees during the Bush...

   

• Psychologists’ E-Mails Stir Interrogation Issue

  By Farah Stockman | WASHINGTON – Newly public e-mails between psychologists involved in the Bush administration’s...

   

• CIA Officials Were Given Daily Torture Updates

  By Jason Leopold | CIA interrogators provided top agency officials in Langley with daily “torture” updates of...

   

• Jordan’s human-rights watchdog reports torture

  Amman- The 2008 report released Saturday by Jordan’s state- funded National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) found continued...

   

• Human Rights Watch on Torture of Mohammed Shah Poor

  Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights Watch has sent and open letter to  the President United Arab Emirates highlighting acts...

   

• Abuse Isn’t Torture If a Doctor Is There

  The Sick Logic of the CIA Memos. By Sheri Fink | Perhaps the most chilling aspect is that medical professionals apparently...

   

• Torture Worked to Sell the Iraq War

  Three cheers for Dick Cheney. The former vice president has urged, however rhetorically, that the Obama administration release...

   

• Torture Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11

  By MARJORIE COHN  | When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution,...

   

• Torture orders ‘came from the top’

  TOP US officials, not a “few bad apples” of low rank, were behind harsh military interrogation tactics that spread...

   

• Torture case lawyers may face jail for letter

  A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who accused a Bay Area company of flying him to foreign torture chambers for the CIA is...