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POSTED July 2, 9:16 AM
From the NY Times:The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.”Of course, in 1957 the U.S. would not have referred to this kind of interrogation by the Chinese as "coercive management". We would have called it by it's rightful name; torture. |
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POSTED June 28, 10:33 AM
In 2002, lawyers within the Bush Administration (Addington, Yoo, Bybee, et al) were busy putting the final, gruesome touches on opinion memos that authorized and rationalized the Presidents use of torture to interrogate terrorist detainees. ... Read More
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POSTED June 25, 8:35 AM
From the NY Times: A bipartisan group of 200 former government officials, retired generals and religious leaders plans to issue a statement on Wednesday calling for a presidential order to outlaw some interrogation and detention practices used by the... Read More
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POSTED June 24, 3:43 PM
World Public Opinion has just released a poll of world opinion on the use of torture. A WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 19 nations finds that in 14 of them most people favor an unequivocal rule against torture, even in the case of terrorists who... Read More
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POSTED June 18, 5:27 PM
McClatchy continued their excellent "Guantanamo:Beyond the Law" series with an article today outlining the Bush Administrations legal gyrations required to get to the point where the U.S. was acting outside the long standing Military Code of... Read More
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POSTED June 17, 4:17 PM
Former Navy Counsel General Alberto Mora was a top ranking Pentagon civilian lawyer who fought a two and a half year battle within the Pentagon over U.S. military policies on detainee interrogation methods.
Mora was recently honored as a recipient... Read More
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POSTED June 17, 2:43 PM
McClatchy has published several articles in the last week exposing details of the U.S. use of torture as an interrogation tool.McClatchy on the Bagram facility in Afghanistan:Former guards and detainees whom McClatchy interviewed said Bagram was a center... Read More
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POSTED June 12, 2:33 PM
This is not for the squeamish. From USA Today:The U.S. government has photographic evidence that a Guantanamo Bay inmate was tortured with a knife after being taken to Morocco by U.S. forces, a British human rights group said Tuesday.Reprieve said... Read More
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POSTED June 9, 8:51 AM
I suppose this shouldn't come as any big surprise. We've already seen the criminal trials go bust, the government prosecutors dropping charges against terrorists because they're unable to present testimony gained by the use of torture. We've... Read More
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POSTED June 2, 10:29 AM
The Guardian reported today the United States is covertly operating "floating prisons"; ships housing detainees arrested in the war on terror. Away from the scrutiny of media and regulatory agencies, as many as 17 ships have been used... Read More
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