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

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

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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 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Khalid Saad Mohammed, War on Terror, Terrorism, Pakistan, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Justice Department, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Abdul Aziz Al-Noofayee, Politics News, Politics, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Saudi Arabia, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Gladys Kessler, Advocacy, Closing Guantanamo, World, World News, Politics News

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 06.24.2009 | Politics

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 06.21.2009 | Politics

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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 06.19.2009 | Politics

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 06.19.2009 | World

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 06.18.2009 | Politics

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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 06.14.2009 | World

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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 06.13.2009 | Politics

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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 06.11.2009 | Politics

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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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Even For Cheney, The Al Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

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Coercive and illegal techniques were used widely at Gitmo in an attempt to secure information linking al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein.

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Torture Revelations Will Leave the Left Frustrated

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics

The most likely outcome of this whole business will be that nobody will be punished.

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Ali Soufan Interview: FBI Interrogator Of Zubaydah Breaks Silence, Condemns Torture Tactics

Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics

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"I've kept my mouth shut about all this for seven years," Soufan says. But now, with the declassification of Justice memos and the public assertions b...

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Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

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For the defendants of the use of torture by U.S. forces -- still led by former Vice President Dick Cheney -- this has been a rocky few weeks.

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Don't Prosecute -- and Scapegoat -- Torture Operatives; Go for the Top

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

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Should we prosecute the agents who committed the torture? We should not. As a longtime advocate for prosecutions, that may sound surprising coming from me.

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Marcy Wheeler: 83 Waterboardings, 10 Pieces of Intel

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

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When we last heard from Marcy Wheeler of the EmptyWheel blog, she was doing the legwork that the New York Times needed done for their story on how Kha...

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What Would You Not Do to Stop a Nuke?

Lionel | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Waterboarding, Jay Bybee, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Barack Obama, Abu Zubaydah, Torture, Monty Python, Politics News

What if torture, some torture, some despicable form, actually worked? Actually produced usable confessions and saved lives?

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Jay S. Bybee: It's Not Torture If You Use A Caterpillar

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

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I never thought I would be having arguments with people about the merits of torture, which goes to show you how low Bush sunk the general level of American political discourse.

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Why the War Crimes?

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

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The reporting that Abu Zubaydah wasn't the feared number 3 of Al-Qaeda, was -- or should be -- the last step in removing the scales from the eyes of all but the Cheney retainers.

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Waterboarding Of CIA's First High-Value Captive Led To False Leads

Washington Post | Peter Finn and Joby Warrick | Posted 04.28.2009 | Home

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When CIA officials subjected their first high-value captive, Abu Zubaida, to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods, they were convinced ...

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How Cooking For The Taliban Gets You Life In Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, Al-Qaeda, Congress, Ghaleb Al-Bihani, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Guantanamo, Taliban, Habeas Corpus, Politics, Enemy Combatants, Bosnia, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Mohammed El-Gharani, Hisham Sliti, Closing Guantanamo, Belkacem Bensayah, Yemen, Tunisia, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Salim Hamdan, US District Court, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Guantanamo Uighurs, Judge Richard Leon, Obama First 100 Days, Muaz Al-Alawi, Huzaifa Parhat, World News

Those of us who prefer justice to arbitrary and unaccountable detention without charge or trial were delighted when, last week, Barack Obama fulfilled...

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Ex-CIA Official: Torture Ban A "Great Leap Forward"

Washington Independent | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama took a major step toward undoing the interrogation and detention policies of the Bush administration on Thursday, issuing four ...

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The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part Two)

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.25.2009 | Politics

I have covered the Military Commissions in depth and at no point has it ever been demonstrated that the system dreamt up by Cheney and Addington in November 2001 is "fair and honest."

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The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part One)

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.24.2009 | Politics

Cheney's version of the truth on interrogations does not stand up to scrutiny, and features ten lies that should not be allowed to pass without further comment and analysis.

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