Detainee Abuse

Iraq, Guantanamo Torture Proven By Medical Exams: Report

AP | JAMAL HALABY | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

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AMMAN, Jordan — Four years after his release from Abu Ghraib, Ali al-Qaisi has nightmares and insomnia he blames on injuries _ physical and psyc...

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And War Crimes for All....

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

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Read this incredible article by Warren Strobel of McClatchy Newspapers 'The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and conc...

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US Abuse Of Detainees Was Routine At Afghanistan Bases

McClatchy Newspapers | Tom Lasseter | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

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American soldiers herded the detainees into holding pens of razor-sharp concertina wire, the kind that's used to corral livestock. The guards kicked,...

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Rendition Gets a Little More Extraordinary

Harry Shearer | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

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As with most legally questionable practices in the administration's war on the Constitution, this ER hasn't been cancelled, either.

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Pentagon records detail prisoner abuse by US military

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Military interrogators assaulted Afghan detainees in 2003, using investigation methods they learned during self-defense training, P...

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Abu Ghraib Photographer: Excerpts From Her Interviews

New Yorker | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics

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This week in the magazine, Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris write about Sabrina Harman, a U.S. Army specialist who took photographs at Abu Ghraib an...

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Last Two Standing: David Addington and John Bellinger to Engage in Combat for Next Year

Steve Clemons | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

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I admire State Department Legal Advisor John Bellinger for the role he has played in trying to walk back this administration from the true abyss in its torture, detention, and rendition practices.

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America's Heart of Darkness: Comments on Taxi to the Dark Side

Steve Clemons | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics

Watch this five-minute YouTube clip with FBI Special Agent and interrogator and Damien Corsetti talking about torture and going over the line.

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Detainee Lawyer Claims Has CIA Pictures of Guantanamo Torture

The Independent | Robert Verkaik | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

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Lawyers for a British resident who the US government refuses to release from Guantanamo Bay have identified the existence of photographs taken by CIA ...

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Waterboarding: Call It What It Is, Mukasey

Jon Soltz | Posted 10.31.2007 | Politics

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America, at its core, and our troops, represent everything the polar opposite that Saddam represented. But, it's hard to show that when Iraqis know that we employ the use of torture.

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A New Guantánamo Whistleblower Steps Forward to Criticize the Tribunal Process

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.09.2007 | Politics

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The saga of the Guantánamo whistleblowers resurfaced last week when an Army Major filed an affidavit in the case of a Sudanese detainee who was kidnapped in 2002 from his home in Pakistan.

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Detainees Recount Guantanamo Bay Horror Stories

Associated Press | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 09.11.2007 | Home

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Detainees flinging body waste at guards. Guards interrupting detainees at prayer. Interrogators withholding medicine. Hostility and tension between in...

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