Torture
The release of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) executive summary (PDF) to their report, “Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program,” has rightly gotten a .
At a secret black site in the years after the end of WWII, CIA and US intelligence operatives tested LSD and other interrogation techniques on captured Soviet spies—all with the help of former Nazi doctors.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- A group of 56 detainees in Iraqi prisons is suing a U.S. company for the abuse t.
Photo: Insurgent suspects are led away by US forces. Some of those held in Iraqi custody suffered appalling ab.
Buenos Aires -- Last July at the Libertad (Freedom) prison in Uruguay was unusual. Miguel Angel Estrella, an.
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.
In an interview with Deutsche Welle, the former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture lauds the Obama administration for joining the UN Human Rights Council.
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.
Daniel Tencer
By Daniel Tencer Raw Story | October 14th, 2010 Martin Seligman 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 contra.