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 this week. The 2004 report, which [...]
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 [...]
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 influential foreign affairs select committee on [...]
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 on the US mainland, officials confirmed today. A task force [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
(CSPAN) – No End To Secret Prisons!? Ignoring Habeas Corpus!? No Penalty For Torture!?
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 [...]
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 circumstances, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 what no judge has yet done: disclose classified data the government has declared a national security state secret. The administration urged (.pdf) U.S. District Judge Vaughn [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
