Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial
By Andy Worthington While Rodriguez — like John Yoo, Jay S. Bybee and senior Bush administration officials, up to and including the president — have never been criminally prosecuted, it is uncertain whether, overall, the apologists for torture are winning. Despite their protestations over the years, they have no proof that torture worked. :::::::: […]
Enhanced Interrogation: A Non-Thing
Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry claimed they would reinstate illegal programs that have been dismissed by experts as ineffective and illegal. They have sought to foster the ignorance in the Republican party that comes with a belief in a non-thing. This non-thing is called, “enhanced interrogation”. Each of these people continue an insult […]
CIA: Detainee’s Torture Drawings, Writings, “Should They Exist,” to Remain Top Secret
Wednesday 5 October 2011 by: Jason Leopold, Truthout (Image: JR / t r u t h o u t) In 2002, not long after he was subjected to so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” by Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell, psychologists under contract to the CIA, high-value detainee Abu Zubaydah made about ten drawings depicting the torture he endured […]
Author of Torture Memos Admits Some Techniques Were Not Approved By DOJ
Thursday 15 July 2010 by: Jason Leopold, reprinted from TruthOut.org (make sure to support TruthOut with a donation today) Jay Bybee, who as a senior Justice Department lawyer signed two memos in 2002 authorizing CIA interrogators to torture “war on terror” prisoners, told a congressional panel that more than a half dozen other brutal methods […]
Human Experimentation at the Heart of Bush Administration’s Torture Program
Reprinted with permission (and creative commons) from TruthOut.org Don’t forget, it is very important to support independent journalist sites like TruthOut.org by Jason Leopold – Sunday, June 6, 2010 High-value detainees captured during the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” who were subjected to brutal torture techniques, were used as “guinea pigs” to gauge the effectiveness […]
Amos Guiora-The Bagram Decision: Bad Law Bad Policy
Reprinted with permission from The Jurist – First JURIST publication link Listen to interview with Prof. Amos Guiora from this week’s show Listen to reading of Op-Ed and an interview on the Bagram Decision Listen Here Author of Freedom from Religion – Link Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation – Link The DC Circuit Court’s recent […]
Guantanamo Review Task Force Report is out.
Guantanamo Review Task Force – Download Report Guantanamo detainee report is out. It states that 126 detainees should be sent back home or handed over to a third party country. The report states that 36 should be prosecuted and that 48 be detained further under “laws of war”. The 30 Yemenis are left in limbo until […]
Conservative and Liberal Pillagers Master the Art of Pandering
By Morris Davis Reprinted from AndyWorthington.co.uk If it was a crime to misappropriate a word or phrase — to treat it like you own it and toss it around arbitrarily whenever it suits your purposes — then some prominent conservatives and liberals would be serving hard time. Of course there don’t seem to be any […]
Worthington: Judge in Slahi case demolished US al-Qaida claims.
Andy Worthington has a new article: Mohamedou Ould Salahi: How a Judge Demolished the US Government’s Al-Qaeda Claims He points out the stack of cards that is the Bush/Cheney administration’s detainee terrorism policy. Basically, take in prisoners on bounties, give them no chance to hear what they are accused of, arrange for them to be […]
Eric Holder announces KSM to go on trial
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried in lower Manhattan. Republicans immediately went into their highly predictable panic attack. Below is AG Holder’s announcement: