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Bush White House Sought To Soften Treaty On 'Enforced Disappearances'

Washington Post | R. Jeffrey Smith | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

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From 2003 to 2006, the Bush administration quietly tried to relax the draft language of a treaty meant to bar and punish "enforced disappearances" so ...

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CIA Continues To Withhold Key Documents

AP | Daphne Eviatar | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The CIA says it cannot turn over more details of its interrogations of terror suspects without spilling classified government secre...

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After Waterboarding, Sept. 11 Planner Recast As An Asset for CIA, Leading "Terrorist Tutorials"

washingtonpost.com | Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie Tate | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

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After enduring the CIA's harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency's secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood befo...

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C.I.A. Inspector General Report: Did Military Doctors Intervene When Necessary?

John H. Tucker | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Given that at least a dozen prisoners -- and likely more -- have died by homicide in military prisons this decade, one wonders how often doctors monitored torturous interrogations without intervening.

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U.S. Says It Will Preserve Secret Jails for Terror Case

nytimes.com | BENJAMIN WEISER and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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The government will agree to preserve the secret overseas sites where a defendant in a terror case was once held and, his lawyers say, subjected to ha...

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When Democracy Is Stolen

Giles Slade | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

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Giles Slade

With the assistance of a few corrupt politicians, the world has now brought the middle east to the brink of nuclear war.

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CIA Black Sites No Longer Being Used, Panetta Says

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The CIA has stopped using contractors to interrogate prisoners and fired private security guards at the CIA's now-shuttered secret ...

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Red Cross: Medical Officers Violated Ethics While Overseeing Interrogations At Secret CIA Prisons

Washington Post | Joby Warrick and Julie Tate | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

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Medical officers who oversaw interrogations of terrorism suspects in CIA secret prisons committed gross violations of medical ethics and in some cases...

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Obama's Decisive Break with Bush's "War on Terror" Policies

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

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Andy Worthington

Obama's new Orders are a bold start, but more detail is required, dangerous loopholes must be shut off permanently, and other parts of the Bush administration's dark legacy need to be swiftly addressed.

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Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

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Andy Worthington

In one of his first acts as president, Obama ordered prosecutors in Guantanamo's Military Commission trials to ask for a four-month stay on all proceedings.

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British Court Rules Against UK and US in Case of Guantanamo Torture Victim Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

In the lawless world of Guantánamo -- and the United States' even murkier network of secret prisons run by or on behalf of the CIA -- it has taken si...

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Inside The CIA's Black Sites: One Detainee Reports

BBC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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A Yemeni man has described being held for nearly three years in secret CIA prisons, or "black sites", around the world and accused the US of torture. ...

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CIA's Secret Overseas Prison Network Remains Active

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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A secret CIA overseas detention program revealed by President George W. Bush last year remains active and has held at least one al Qaeda militant sinc...

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