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On Memorial Day Weekend, America Reckons With Torture

Bill Moyers | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Dilma Roussef, Abu Zubaydah, 9/11, Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, Mohammed Al-QahtaniX Reckoning With Torture, South Africa, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Torture, Memorial Day, Memorial Day 2012, War on Terror, Politics News

If we really want to honor the Americans in uniform who gave their lives fighting for their country, we'll redouble our efforts to make sure we're worthy of their sacrifice; we'll renew our commitment to the rule of law, for the rule of law is essential to any civilization worth dying for.

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PREAL: The "Torture Textbook" That Took CIA Interrogators to the Dark Side

Crofton Black | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: War on Terror, Abu Zubaydah, World News

The PREAL manual was a textbook for military instructors, outlining how to do role-plays to teach students about pressures they might be exposed to if captured by an enemy government.

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Obama Gets Pushed Out of His Comfort Zone -- and Pushes Back

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Administration, War on Terror, Glenn Greenwald, Abu Zubaydah, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, Barack Obama, Quantico, Marcy Wheeler, P.J. Crowley Stepping Down, p.j. Crowley Bradley Manning, P.J. Crowley Resigns, P.J. Crowley, Politics News

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley was forced to resign for his frank comments about the treatment of Bradley Manning. The question is, why would the administration do something so "ridiculous, counterproductive, and stupid"?

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Ten Questions for Harold Koh About Torture and U.S. Compliance With its Legal Commitments

Larry Siems | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Qahtani, Koh, Torture Report, Cia, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, Obama, Accountability, Torture, Slahi, World News

We should be asking the Obama administration about the status of U.S. compliance with its domestic and international commitments on Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment.

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Secretly In Guantanamo: CIA Whisked Detainees Out Before Supreme Court Could Give Access To Lawyers

AP | MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo, Cia, Cupreme Court, Gitmo, CIA Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Black Sites, Abu Zubaydah, Abd Al-Nashiri, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A white, unmarked Boeing 737 landed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before dawn on a CIA mission so secretive, many in the nation's war on...

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APA Wants James Mitchell, Psychologist Who Helped CIA Torture, Stripped Of His License

AP | ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Texas, American Psychological Association, Cia, License, Abu Zubaydah, Doctor Mitchell, Jim Mitchell, Psychology, Waterboarding, Medicine, Apa, Torture, Home News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Psychologists in the United States have been warned by their professional group not to take part in torturing detainees in U.S....

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CIA Waterboarding Video Destroyed: Porter Goss Agreed With Decision To Destroy Interrogation Tapes

AP | MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abu Zubaydah, Cia, White House, Waterboarding, CIA Interrogation, CIA Interrogation Tapes, CIA Interrogation Video, CIA Tapes, CIA Video, Justice Department, Aclu, American Civil Liberties Union, Harriet Miers, John Rizzo, Torture, CIA Torture, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Internal CIA e-mails show the former agency head, Porter Goss, agreed with a top aide's 2005 decision to destroy videotapes of the ...

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Government Walks Back Hyped-Up Claims About Abu Zubaydah In Declassified Filing

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Detainee Policy, Gitmo, War on Terror, Abu Zubaydah, Eat the Press, Politics News

Back in February, I had the opportunity to speak to Brent Mickum of Hollingsworth LLP, who is serving as part of the defense team for Gitmo detainee a...

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'Reluctant Spy' Author John Kiriakou Reveals New Details On Zubaydah And Al Qaeda

CNN | Pam Benson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Administration, George Tenet, Kirakou, CIA Operative, John Kiriakou, Pakistan, Reluctant Spy, Abu Zubaydah, Krakiou, Fbi, Iraq, Al Qaeda, Books News

Washington (CNN) -- Just months after the 9/11 attacks, the United States appeared to have its biggest catch in the newly launched war on terror. Abu...

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Mock Burial: CIA Torturers Wanted Terror Suspect To Think He Was Being Buried Alive

emptywheel | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

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CIA's torturers asked DOJ to let them use mock burials....

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Justice OPR Report Damages Cheney's Claims On Torture, Reports Newsweek's Isikoff

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marc Thiessen, Jose Padilla, Michael Isikoff, Abu Zubaydah, Dick Cheney, War on Terror, Binyam Mohamed, Torture, Eat the Press, Politics News

For some time, former Vice President Dick Cheney has insisted that the declassification of various CIA memos will prove once and for all that the Bush...

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Abu Zubaydah Attorney On Thiessen Hire: It 'Really Angers Me'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The recent ascension of Marc Thiessen to the op-ed pages of the Washington Post can be properly seen as another step in the process of providing a pos...

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Colbert: Waterboard Kiriakou, CIA Faker

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Cia, Colbert Report, Abu Zubaydah, Terrorism, ABC News, John Kiriakou, Spoiler Alert, Waterboarding, Colbert, The Reluctant Spy, Waterboarding Effectiveness, Torture, Comedy News

John Kiriakou, the former CIA employee whose claims about waterboarding became an oft-cited defense of the torture practice, got the "Colbert Report" ...

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The FBI Knows More Than You, McConnell

James Lamond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mitch McConnell, Barack Obama, Fbi, McConnell Insults FBI, Richard Clarke, McConnell on the FBI, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Abu Zubaydah, Politics News

Some of the most important intelligence that we have received from interrogating terrorism suspects was gained by the FBI

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Ex-CIA Operative John Kiriakou Retracts Waterboarding Claim:

Foreign Policy | Jeff Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cia, Brian Ross, Terrorism, Does Waterboarding Work, Abu Zubaydah, Waterboarding, The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the Cia's War on Terror, Michael Ruby, ABC News, The Reluctant Spy, John Kiriakou, Torture, Politics News

Well, it's official now: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terr...

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Release of the "Holy Grail" of Torture Reports Delayed Again

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today was supposed to be the day that the Justice Department -- after two delays -- released an unclassified version of the CIA Inspector General's 2004 Report into the interrogations of "high-value detainees."

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Empty Evidence: The Stories of the Saudis Released From Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Khalid Saad Mohammed seized from a hospital in Pakistan and sold to the U.S. military. But the authorities in GITMO had never managed to build up a credible case against him.

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Former Senior Interrogator in Iraq Dissects Cheney's Lies and Distortions

Matthew Alexander | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Interrogations, Abuse, Vice President Cheney, Torture, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, National Security, Abu Zubaydah, Cheney Speech, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Enhanced Interrogations, Waterboarding, Ksm, Dick Cheney Speech, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Our greatest success in this conflict was achieved without torture or abuse. My interrogation team found Abu Musab Al Zarqawi using relationship-building approaches and non-coercive law enforcement techniques.

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White House Authorized Earliest Detainee Abuse, CIA Log Says

NPR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eit, Cia, President George Bush, Abu Zubaydah, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Waterboarding, Alberto Gonzales, Torture, Politics News

It is clear that increasingly abusive interrogation techniques were used on Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee, in the months between his cap...

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Nancy

Jim Lichtman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cia, Leon Panetta, Abu Zubaydah, Nancy Pelosi, Congress, Waterboarding, Newt Gingrich, Spike, Torture, Nancy, Sluggo, Politics News

Sluggo occasionally gets one over on Spike and gets Nancy back on track.

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Guantanamo: A Prison Built On Lies

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo Evidence, Foreign Affairs, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Administrative Review Boards, Guantanamo, Fbi, Obama Administration, Taliban, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Politics, Enemy Combatants, Obama Guantanamo, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Mosaic Theory, Guantanamo Bay, Judge Gladys Kessler, Advocacy, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Guantanamo Detainees, David Addington, Yemeni Detainees Guantanamo, US District Court, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Military Commissions, Al Qaeda, Faisalabad, Guantanamo Uighurs, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Cuba, World News

It is difficult to see how much of the "evidence" against the Gitmo prisoners can be anything other than a tissue of lies extracted through torture, coercion, bribery and exploitation.

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Stop the Presses: Cheney's Re-emergence Is Finally Explained!

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paranoid, 9'11 Attacks, Cia, Leon Panetta, Justice Department Memo, Congressional Record, George W. Bush, Abu Zubaydah, Gas Mask, Dick Cheney, " Al Qaeda, Misleading Congress, George H.W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Slam Dunk, Unnerved, "The Dark Side, Lying, Colin Powell, Overcompensated, Tom Ricks, Jeffrey Record, Biological Survival Suit, Valerie Plame, John Kuriakou, Bob Graham, Lawrence Wilkerson, Saddam Hussein, Jane Mayer, Air War College, George Tenet, Richard Clarke, Waterboarding, ABC News, Michael Scheuer, Politics News

Nancy Pelosi, this week, accused the CIA of lying. Who, journalists collectively ask, could ever accuse the CIA of lying? Who indeed? Almost anybody, it seems to me.

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Judge Gladys Kessler Releases Yemeni Detainee, Slams "Mosaic" Of Guantanamo Intelligence And Unreliable Witnesses

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Supreme Court, Guantanamo Evidence, War on Terror, Terrorism, Pakistan, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Taliban, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, US District Court, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Al Qaeda, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Politics, Bagram, Judge Richard Leon, Robert Gates, Obama Guantanamo, Mohammed El-Gharani, Jabran Al-Qahtani, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Mosaic Theory, Guantanamo Bay, Dark Prison, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Gladys Kessler, Torture, Faisalabad, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News

I am surprised that senior Obama officials seem to have been content to let a Bush-era approach to prosecution survive unchanged.

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The Real Motive Behind the Cheney Family Torture Tour

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Talk Radio, Wmd, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Liz Cheney, Abu Zubaydah, George W. Bush, Iraq War, CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Cable News, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Why did the Bush administration authorize torture when other methods were more successful? And why is Dick Cheney so desperate to exonerate himself and to skew the debate with trivialities?

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Khalid Sheik Mohammed: "I Gave A Lot Of False Information" To Make Torture Stop

Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Red Cross, Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri, Guantanamo Detainees, George W. Bush, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Bush Torture, International Committee of the Red Cross, Torture Memos, Dick Cheney, Torture, Bush Torture Memos, Politics News

The Bush torture memos pale in comparison to the leaked report issued by the Red Cross following two rounds of private interviews with the 14 "high value detainees" held at Guantanamo Bay.

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