” … This weekend on its website, The New York Review of Books published an open letter signed by almost 300 American legal scholars that denounced the conditions under which Manning is being held as ...
Jose Padilla was convicted of helping Al-Qaeda. His lawyers say he was mistreated for years, and that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld violated Padilla’s civil and constitutional rights. By Warren Richey Christian Science Monitor | ...
How to coerce a confession: ” … Mr Suleiman had told him that he wanted him to die a slow death. … They had taken Mr Habib to another room and then Mr Suleiman had ...
By Frank Rizzo Blogs.courant.com | January 18, 2011 I received this interesting email from a reader that I think deserves its own blog entry. It centers on my brief account on the reading Sunday night ...
Citizens For Legitimate Government News Updates from 10 Feb 2011 http://www.legitgov.org Breaking: Sources: Mubarak to step down tonight, CIA torture point-man to assume power 10 Feb 2011 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will step down as Egypt’s ...
by Choire Sicha The Awl | February 22, 2010 Despite what is surely deliberate obstruction, in the form of having deleted John Yoo’s emails, the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility still found grounds ...
By Noel Brinkerhoff Adbusters February 05, 2011 In one of his first moves during the ongoing political crisis, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt appointed Omar Suleiman as his vice president, hoping the change, along with ...
AFP | February 2, 2011 THE man named by President Hosni Mubarak as his first ever deputy, spy chief Omar Suleiman, reportedly orchestrated the brutal interrogation of terror suspects abducted by the CIA in its ...
Josephine Whitaker OpenDemocracy | January 20, 2011 The British government’s links to notorious Bangladeshi counter-terrorism unit, the Rapid Action Battalion, extend to information sharing that may amount to complicity in the torture of British nationals ...
” … One of the accusations is made by Brenda Esquivel, who in 1972 witnessed the murder of several colleagues and was then savagely tortured at an office of the political police in Maracay. At ...
Huffington Post | January 11, 2011 Jon Burge One of the most notorious figures in Chicago police brutality is asking for a light sentence based on having fought in Korea and Vietnam. Former police commander ...
ADAM GOLDMAN, DANNY ROBBINS Associated Press | January 11, 2011 DALLAS — The Texas agency that licenses psychologists is pressing forward with an investigation that could lead it to discipline one of the architects of ...
On NukeGate: “The Biggest Political Scandal of the Past Decade: Lockheed/Sandia, Bush’s State Dept., Pakistan’s Nuclear Smuggling & the Hidden Parapolitics of the Plame Scandal” By Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz The Sacramento Bee | ...
By Johan Nylander The Swedish Wire | December 5, 2010 An acute diplomatic crisis broke out between the United States and Sweden in 2006 when Swedish authorities put a stop to CIA rendition flights, according to the ...
Source : Reuters News Center | December 3, 2010 Vladimir Putin rules Russia by allowing a venal elite to siphon off cash from the world’s biggest energy producer, according to a picture painted by US ...
By Eric Alterman The Nation | December 2, 2010 Much of the journalistic world is currently focused on the juicy diplomatic details of the WikiLeaks revelations. This is understandable, but the issues raised are complex. ...
“… Most counter terrorism experts dispute these claims saying there is no evidence to substantiate that waterboarding Al- Qaida leaders helped foil specific attacks on the UK. ‘It’s unambiguous that waterboarding is torture for the ...
” … When the House passed the annual Intelligence Authorization legislation earlier this year, it included my provision to require the CIA to retain interrogation tapings. … Unfortunately, Senate Republicans blocked the inclusion of the ...
National Archives to determine if agency violated federal recordkeeping law By Michael Isikoff | MSNBC | November 11, 2010 The legal inquiries into the CIA’s destruction of videotapes showing the brutal interrogation of terror suspects ...
By Daya Gamage | Asian Tribune | November 2, 2010 WikiLeaks disclosed US military- maintained Iraq War Logs show that a “Wolf Battalion” or “Wolf Brigade” existed in Iraq, which went around terrorizing insurgents. The ...
In an interview with Deutsche Welle, the former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture lauds the Obama administration for joining the UN Human Rights Council. But he urges Obama to deal with the legacy of his ...
Jeff Stein | Washington Post | November 3, 2010 Daniel Pines, an assistant general counsel at the CIA, has asserted in a law journal that the abduction of terrorism suspects abroad is legal under U.S. ...
” … The individuals responsible for the torture and abuse endured by rendition victims on Polish soil must be held accountable. … “ By Adam Goldman (CP) – 3 days ago WARSAW, Poland — Ten ...
By Andy Worthington The Public Record | October 24, 2010 Judge Reggie B. Walton, U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia. Photo/Wikimedi On September 22, in the District Court in Washington D.C., Judge Reggie ...
The US government is at the centre of a growing row over the cover-up of torture of detainees in Iraq following the leak of almost 400,000 army field reports. ” … The greatest controversy will ...
By Daniel Tencer Raw Story | October 14th, 2010 A psychologist whose research was used in constructing the US’s program to torture terrorism suspects has been granted a $31-million no-bid Army contract to provide “resilience ...
” … Were those responsible for coming up with sensational headlines really trying to argue that information obtained through the use of torture should be allowed in a US court? … Judge Kaplan’s decision to ...
By James Pitkin Wilamette Week | October 7, 2010 The countries where the Gulfstream owned by Bayard was tracked Scott Caplan, a Portland lawyer who was caught up in a scandal over flying terror suspects ...
By Guy Walters Daily Mail | 9th February 2009 Still alive? Nazi torturer Aribert Heim may have faked his own death from rectal cancer in 1992 The tall, thin, elderly German was a familiar figure ...
By PAUL ELIAS (AP) SAN FRANCISCO — A sharply divided federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit that challenged Boeing Co.’s role flying terrorism suspects to secret prisons and raised questions about the government’s ability ...
By SHASHANK BENGALI Kansas City Star | Aug. 22, 2010 In June, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a Canadian man who contends that U.S. authorities mistook him for an al-Qaida operative ...
