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National Briefing
Washington, D.C.: Secrecy on terrorist watch list sought
September 6, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Secrecy on terror watch list sought
The Obama administration wants to maintain the secrecy of terrorist watch list information it routinely shares with federal, state and local agencies, a move that rights groups say would make it difficult for people who have been improperly [...]
CIA report into Bush Administration’s treatment of suspects released
Tim Reid, Times
August 23, 2009
The alleged crimes and abuses carried out under the Bush Administration will take centre stage today with the release of a report detailing brutal CIA interrogations, a document that could trigger criminal investigations later [...]
Source: News Week
A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency’s inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock executions as part of the agency’s post-9/11 program to detain and question terror suspects, NEWSWEEK has learned.
According to two sources—one who has read a draft of the paper and one who was [...]
Mark Townsend
Foreign affairs select committee calls for disclosure on why Diego Garcia documents have vanished
August 9, 2009
Ministers must explain why crucial documents relating to CIA “torture flights” that stopped on sovereign British territory were destroyed, a panel of MPs has said.
A damning appraisal by the [...]
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Monday 3 August 2009 18.24 BST
Article history
The US Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Photograph: US army/AP
The Obama administration is looking at transferring inmates at Guantánamo to a combined jail and courtroom facility at an existing prison [...]
By ProPublica
By Dafna Linzer and Peter Finn
The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, has drafted an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations.
Such an order would embrace claims by former [...]
By Raw Story
In a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-C.T.) threatened to shut down the Senate by blocking any further legislation unless their bill preventing the release of any further detainee abuse photos is passed.
Both men said they fear more disclosure would trigger heightened violence against Americans overseas.
“Both Senators [...]
(CSPAN) – No End To Secret Prisons!? Ignoring Habeas Corpus!? No Penalty For Torture!?
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This is probably exactly what the photos show, because it happened. The same-sex crimes against detainees have been documented.
The Telegraph of London broke the news — because the U.S. press is in a drugged stupor – — that the photos President Barack Obama is refusing to release of detainee abuse depict, among other sexual tortures, [...]
Powell Gammill
by Ron Paul
While Congress is sidetracked by who said what to whom and when, our nation finds itself at a crossroads on the issue of torture. We are at a point where we must decide if torture is something that is now going to be considered justifiable and reasonable under certain [...]
High-Ranking U.S. Officials Among Targets of Inquiries
By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, May 24, 2009
MADRID — Spanish judges are boldly declaring their authority to prosecute high-ranking government officials in the United States, China and Israel, among other places, delighting human rights activists but enraging officials in the countries they target and triggering a political backlash [...]
Two months ago, Hersh, speaking at the University of Minnesota, said the following in trying to reveal yet more of the incredible depravity and lawlessness of Dick Cheney:
“After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of [...]
Chainlink fences, orange jumpsuits, and watchtowers
Springtime in Gitmo
by Mark Yannone
All this talk about closing the United States federal government’s Guantanamo Bay Torture, Personal Development, and Multidenominational Ministry Retreat brings back memories.
Don’t mind me — I get this way every Spring, when balmy breezes wafting in from the Pacific and the Caribbean are toasted to 100 [...]
By David Kravets
May 15, 2009 |
SAN FRANCISCO — Setting the stage for a constitutional showdown, the Obama administration dared a federal judge here late Friday to do [...]
Terrell E. Arnold
Rense 5-11-9
Over the past several weeks we have watched a fundamental moral, legal and constitutional question about torture descend into a rude argument over whether it works. In short, a critical question of how America deals with its malefactors has morphed into a debate about whether the ends justify the means. The resolution [...]
By Bernard Chazelle, May 2, 2009
US soliders using “water torture” (now called waterboarding) on Phillipino prisoners after the USA invaded that country.
The story goes like this: The US didn’t torture until the Bush gang came to power. Some say we’re a nation of laws and criminal investigations are the only way to return to our [...]
I have just learnt something which has convinced me that Bush, Cheney and Rice are indeed evil in the sense that Hitler was evil. I did not actually believe that until today.
The excellent and much-respected Marjorie Cohn, President of the National Lawyers Guild of the USA and Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson School [...]
Raw Story
A Court of Appeals for the Washington, D.C. Circuit ruled Friday that detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are not “persons” according to it’s interpretation of a statute involving religious freedom.
The ruling sprang from an appeal of Rasul v. Rumsfeld, which was thrown out in Jan. 2008. “The court affirmed [...]
Last month the Pakistani daily Dawn reported:
A shocking new report alleges widespread complicity between British security agents and their Pakistani counterparts who have routinely engaged in the torture of suspects, a report in the Observer has revealed.
Quoting from the report, which will be published next month by the civil liberties group Human Rights Watch, the [...]
Torture: A Family Affair for the Cheney Clan
Lizzie Cheney starts making the “I love my daddy” tour to defend torture. See below. Two things I find interesting in Lizzie’s argument are a). that she is lying on television about what the two former DCIs actually said and b). she appears to know a great deal [...]
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