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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 information pertaining to the destruction of interrogation videotapes ordered CIA to release its 2004 Inspector General
Read More »Met to probe torture collusion claims
The Metropolitan Police are to investigate claims that British agents colluded in torture, Scotland Yard said. Officers are to investigate allegations by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed that MI5 officers were complicit in
Read More »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 seriously violated the laws against inhumane treatment of detainees
Read More »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 and interrogation program during the Bush administration. The report had been expected to be made
Read More »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 governing body, demanding the removal of the newly appointed president, an Israeli doctor,
Read More »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 others, being tortured during counter-terrorism investigations, the Guardian can reveal. The policy, devised in the
Read More »New Evidence Of CIA Torture Program
NEW YORK – The CIA today released still-highly redacted documents in which Guantánamo Bay prisoners describe abuse and torture they suffered in CIA custody. The documents were released as part of an American Civil
Read More »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 bill for US military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan through September. The Obama administration
Read More »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. Attached to the classified document was a set of directives drafted two days earlier
Read More »Torture documents need to be released
Despite its repudiation of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” the Obama administration continues to stifle public scrutiny of how the Bush Justice Department’s strained legal rationale for torture was translated into the mistreatment of suspected terrorists.
Read More »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 lawyer John Yoo for coming up with the legal theories that
Read More »CIA Director’s claims reinforce torture reality
It’s no secret that during the Bush administration, the Central Intelligence Agency “rendered” suspected terrorists to overseas facilities where they were subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Some sessions were recorded on videotape. Using the
Read More »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” alternative to the use of a firearm in dealing with situations that threaten the life or safety
Read More »Cheney personally oversaw briefings on torture
Former Vice President Dick Cheney “personally” oversaw at least four briefings with members of Congress about the Bush administration’s interrogation program in an effort to maintain support for the torture of detainees in U.S.
Read More »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 request for the public release of two memos–on the basis that the documents are currently the
Read More »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 administration years have made headlines and stirred controversy. The positions of prominent advocates and
Read More »Psychologists’ E-Mails Stir Interrogation Issue
By Farah Stockman | WASHINGTON – Newly public e-mails between psychologists involved in the Bush administration’s controversial detention program have fueled a fierce debate over whether mental-health professionals should give advice on warfare, and
Read More »CIA Officials Were Given Daily Torture Updates
By Jason Leopold | CIA interrogators provided top agency officials in Langley with daily “torture” updates of Abu Zubaydah, the alleged “high-level” terrorist detainee who was held at a secret “black site” prison and
Read More »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 ‘torture’ at Jordanian jails and a retreat in public freedoms. Anti-torture efforts in Jordan are still
Read More »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 of torture commited by UAE police and members of the royal family. ——————— His Highness
Read More »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 conducted a form of research on the detainees, without their consent. Former CIA
Read More »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 more of the torture memos. “One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing
Read More »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, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties about Bush interrogation policies, Congressman Trent Franks (R-Ariz) stated that former
Read More »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 from Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan to Iraq, a new Senate report says. The Senate Armed
Read More »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 at the center of a bizarre new case, in which his lawyers
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