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"Model Prisoner" at Guantanamo, Tortured in the "Dark Prison," Loses Habeas Corpus Petition

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Jordan, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Pakistan, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, Guantanamo Detainees, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, CIA Torture, Judge Ellen Huvelle, Judge Thomas Hogan, Hassan Bin Attash, World News, Osama Bin Laden, Habeas Corpus, Al Qaeda, Politics News, Enemy Combatants, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Dark Prison, The Guantanamo Files, Musa'ab Al-Madhwani, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Al-Madhwani joins eight other prisoners in a legal netherworld, no longer regarded as "enemy combatants" by the administration, but still detained indefinitely as though they were.

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Julian Hattem

ACLU Criticizes Obama Torture-Prosecution Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Julian Hattem | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ben Wizner, Aclu, American Civil Liberties Union, Bush Administration Torture, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama, Obama Administration, CIA Torture, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Jameel Jaffer, Barack Obama, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

On the same day that President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, the nation's foremost civil liberties group criticized his administration's refus...

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Condoleezza Rice's Smoking Gun

Sebastian Doggart | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Bush Administration Torture, The Smoking Gun, Bush Administration, Karl Rove, Condoleezza Rice, American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi, CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Bush Era, Condi Rice, Torture, Courting Condi, Video, Politics News
Sebastian Doggart

When I began investigating Condoleezza Rice four years ago, I had no idea she was complicit in torture.

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CIA 'Black Sites': Final Status Of The Facilities Remains In The Dark

Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, CIA Torture, Leon Panetta Torture, Terror Suspects, Leon Panetta Interrogations, Leon Panetta CIA, Leon Panetta Black Sites, Detainee Interrogations, Terror Suspect Interrogation, CIA Black Sites, Cia Torture Documents, Cia Disclosure, Bush Torture, Cheney Torture, Detainee Torture, Cia Enhanced Interrogations, Politics News

Whatever happened to the so-called "black sites," where suspected terrorists were held overseas by the CIA and submitted to harsh interrogations that ...

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's Criminal Trial May Shine Light on Roots of Terrorism

Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Yosri Fouda, Zacarias Moussaoui, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, War on Terror, John Radsan, CIA Torture, Al Jazeera, War on Terrorism, Terrorism, Politics News
Coleen Rowley

The most pragmatic method of determining the guilt or innocence of criminals like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has always been in criminal court. Rush Limbaugh and his ilk are very wrong about this.

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"Golden Shield" Doesn't Cover Condi's Torture Role

Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon, Bush Administration Torture, Jay Bybee, Condoleezza Rice, John Yoo, Beth El Synagogue, CIA Torture, Robert Delahunty, Torture Memos, Torture, Golden Shield, Politics News
Coleen Rowley

It was Condoleezza Rice who verbally approved the CIA's request to subject the first alleged al-Qaeda terrorist to waterboarding in July 2002.

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The Lawyers Who Would Torture

David A. Love | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Tarp, George Bush, U.S. Economy, Law, Elizabeth Warren, Judges, David Cole, Economy, Books, Foreign Affairs, Economic Crisis, Rule of Law, George W. Bush, Ponzi Scheme, CIA Torture, Credit Crisis, Credit Cards, John Yoo, Foreign Policy, John Yoo Memo, Politics, Human Rights, Cia, Torture Memos, Torture, Books News
David A. Love

Throughout history we have witnessed the ways in which societies compromise their legal systems to oppress the many, benefit the few, and sanction the unconscionable.

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When to Hunt for Witches

Stephen Baldwin | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Torture Investigation, Obama Torture Prosecutions, Stephen Baldwin, CIA Torture, Kenneth Starr, Ken Starr, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Torture, Politics News
Stephen Baldwin

Why, after his boss, President Obama, has publicly expressed a position to the contrary, would Attorney General Eric Holder continue on a rogue course of "seeking truth"?

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Detainee Torture Claims Can Be Suppressed, Federal Court Rues

AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Guantanamo Detainee Torture, ACLU Detainee Torture, CIA Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, Cia Prisoner Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Freedom of Information Act, Aclu, Detainee Torture Cover-Up, Detainee Torture, Court Ruling Detainee Torture, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Friday in a case on detainees at Guantanamo Bay that the government can maintain the secrecy of portions of s...

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Forever: A Letter to Obama

Ariel Dorfman | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chile, Human Rights, Torture, CIA Torture, Bush Administration Torture, Barack Obama, Politics News
Ariel Dorfman

Amnesty USA asked me to write a letter to Obama asking him to prosecute all those responsible for torturing in the name of the USA during the previous administration. This is the letter I sent to him

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The Next Generation of American Interrogators

Matthew Alexander | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enhanced Interrogations, Iraq, Interrogation, Torture, CIA Torture, Politics News
Matthew Alexander

There are two areas in particular where interrogators would benefit from improvement. The first is in adapting non-coercive criminal interrogation techniques. The second is the realm of cultural knowledge.

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CIA Interrogations Likely Damaged Detainees' Brains, Making Them Less Reliable: Report

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — Prolonged stress from the CIA's harsh interrogations could have impaired the memories of terrorist suspects, diminishing their abil...

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Yoo's Bad Lawyering, Not Investigations, Threatens CIA

Frank Naif | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Special Prosecutor, Torture Investigation, Cia, CIA Torture, Philadelphia Inquirer, John Yoo, John Durham, Eric Holder, Politics News
Frank Naif

Instead of using his op-ed soapbox to defend his own indefensible legal justifications of an immoral torture program, maybe Yoo should offer to take the investigative heat for the brave CIA men and women.

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It Works!

Jonathan Richards | Posted 11.08.2009 | Comedy

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Jonathan Richards

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Spanish Judge Resumes Torture Case Against Six Senior Bush Lawyers

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.

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Old CIA problems Dog New Interrogation Group

Frank Naif | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Brennan, High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, CIA Torture, Cia, John Brennan Cia, Leon Panetta, Torture, Politics News
Frank Naif

For all of the attention paid to CIA's morale, carving off a chunk of clandestine counterterrorism operations will become part of the hallway lore of a CIA doomed to be put upon by politicians.

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Gonzales Backtracks On Support For CIA Torture Investigation

Washington Times | Ben Conery | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Department of Justice, Bush Administration, Terror Suspects, Alberto Gonzales, CIA Investigation, Politics News

Former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said Thursday that his previous assertion that it was "legitimate to question and examine" charges of CIA ...

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Broder Sees Too Many Consequences To CIA Accountability

Washington Post | David S. Broder | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Bush Administration, CIA Interrogations, Richard Nixon, Obama Administration, CIA Torture, Eugene Robinson, Accountability, John Durham, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, Politics News

My friend and fellow columnist Eugene Robinson has written a characteristically passionate and well-reasoned piece commending Attorney General Eric Ho...

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NYT Breaks Down Cheney's Twisted Version Of History

New York Times | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Cia Inspector General Report, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, CIA Torture, Detainee Abuse, Fox News, Obama Administration, Alberto Gonzales, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, Politics News

After the C.I.A. inspector general's report on prisoner interrogation was released last week, former Vice President Dick Cheney settled into his usual...

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DNC: Cheney "Wrong" Then, "Wrong" Now On CIA Torture (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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Controversy surrounding interrogation techniques used by the CIA on terror suspects under the Bush administration has been astir since President Obama...

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CIA Doctors Performed Unlawful Human Experimentation On Terror Suspects: Medical Watchdog

guardian.co.uk | Ed Pilkington in New York | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

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Doctors and psychologists the CIA employed to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of terror suspects came close to, and may even have committed, unla...

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Acknowledging America's Arrogance

Wajahat Ali | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: CIA Torture, Obama Afghanistan, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Gitmo Detainees, Michael Mullen, Cia Torture Memos, Gitmo, Adm. Michael Mullen, World News
Wajahat Ali

Obama's aggressive rhetoric and military action in Pakistan not only leaves collateral damage in the form of civilian casualties -- it also erodes trust and confidence in the US government and its intentions.

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Did the Washington Post's Richard Cohen Scare the "*#*!#!" Out of You?

David Danzig | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Dia, How-to-Break-a-Terrorist, Eric Maddox, Matthew Alexander, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Richard Cohen, Iraq, Stuart Herrington, Torture, Politics News
David Danzig

Why would U.S. interrogators choose to use torture when other techniques have proven to be so much more effective?

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Gonzales Defends Holder's Decision To Investigate CIA

The Washington Times | Joseph Weber | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Torture Investigation, Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, Eric Holder, Politics News

Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales on Tuesday defended the decision of his current successor, Eric H. Holder Jr., to investigate alleged...

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McCain Backs Torture as Recruiting Tool for Al Qaida; Policy Led to the Deaths of U.S. Soldiers in Iraq

Matthew Alexander | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, War on Terorrism, Cheney, Interrogation, Torture, Politics News
Matthew Alexander

I was the first to say that the policy of torture and abuse was directly linked to U.S. deaths in Iraq. It's a hard pill to swallow, but true.

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