Published on Monday, May 18, 2009 by Salon.com The Bush administration’s Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it….
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Funding for Guantanamo Bay Closure Dropped from Budget
By Mark Impomeni, 5/4/09 From Politics Daily | Original Article Republicans appear to have secured a major victory over the Obama Administration and the Democratic leadership of Congress on the president’s request…
UN Rights Chief Urges Obama to Prosecute Torturers
By Stephanie Nebehay From Reuters | Original Article GENEVA, May 14 (Reuters) – The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday welcomed the election of the United States to the top…
CIA Outsourced Development of Interrogation Plan
By John Goetz and Britta Sandberg From SpeigelOnLine | Original Article The torture practices used in interrogations of al-Qaida prisoners were not developed by government officials in Washington, but by private security…
John Yoo Gets a Column at the Philadelphia Inquirer
By Liliana Segura, May 12, 2009 From AlterNet | Original Article It was jarring enough (and more than a bit bizarre) to see the notorious John Yoo weigh in on the Obama…
The Guantanamo Labyrinth
Feature article from the Chicago Tribune magazine on Guantanamo prisoners and War Criminals Watch advisor, H. Candace Gorman. Click here to read.
Cheney on “Face the Nation” 5/10/09
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CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of “Enhanced Interrogations”
By Paul Kane From The Washington Post | Original ArticleIntelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh…
CIA Interrogation Techniques Investigated
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Bush Attorneys Who Wrote Terror Memo Face Backlash
By TERENCE CHEA, Associated Press Writer Terence Chea, Associated Press Writer – Thu May 7, 2009 From Yahoo News | Original Article SAN FRANCISCO – Pressure is mounting against two former Bush administration attorneys…
Spanish Judge Opens Probe into Guantanamo Torture
April 29, 2009 From AFP | Original Article MADRID (AFP) — A Spanish judge on Wednesday opened an investigation into an alleged “systematic programme” of torture at the US Guantanamo Bay detention…
New Evidence of Torture Prison in Poland
EUROPE’S ‘SPECIAL INTERROGATIONS’ New Evidence of Torture Prison in Poland By John Goetz and Britta Sandberg, April 27, 200l From SpiegelOnline | Original Article The current debate in the US on…
The US Must Prosecute Torturers
by Hasan Arif April 27, 2009 From Telegraph Journal | Original Article Thirty-five years ago, Watergate was the ultimate political scandal in the United States. Democrats and progressives railed against what they…
Obama Backtracks on Torture Probe
Obama Tells Lawmakers in Private Meeting He Won’t Support Torture Probe By Jason Leopold From The Public Record | Original Article Thursday, 23 April 2009 16:18 By Jason LeopoldPresident Barack Obama has…
Obama open to torture memos probe, prosecution
By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer – Tue Apr 21, 7:40 pm ET From Associated Press | Original Article WASHINGTON – Widening an explosive debate on torture, President Barack Obama on…