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Congress To Keep Detainee Abuse Photos Hidden

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a mov...

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Mohammed al-Qahtani Torture Tapes To Be Released To Detainee's Lawyers

Washington Post | Del Quentin Wilber and Julie Tate | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Detainee Interrogation Tapes, Guantanamo Detainee Torture, Interrogation Tapes Disclosed, Bush Enhanced Interrogation, Mohommed Al-Qahtani, Terror Suspect Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Detainee Abuse, Judge Release Interrogation Tapes, Guantanamo Bay Detainee Abuse, Detainee Torture, Politics News

A federal judge on Monday disclosed the existence of videotapes that may reveal potentially abusive interrogations of a Guantanamo Bay detainee, and o...

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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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Diapering: New Torture Technique Revealed By Report

Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Diapering, Detainee Abuse, Icrc, Red Cross, Cia, Interrogation Techniques, Dick Cheney, Politics News

In order to learn more about the mysterious "prolonged diapering" technique formerly employed by the CIA -- possibly the technique nebulously referred...

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Obama's "Drip, Drip, Drip..." Intelligence Problem

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Obama faces a steady drip, drip, drip of stories leaking and becoming public. Wiretapping stories, torture stories, and secret CIA covert stories were all in the news in the past week alone.

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UN Human Rights Chief Criticizes Obama Administration Over Detainee Treatment

The Washington Post | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Interrogation, United Nations, Guantanamo Detainees, Navanethem Pillay, Guantanamo, Detainee Abuse, Obama, Un, Barack Obama, Detainees, Politics News

The U.N.'s top human rights advocate, Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates or try th...

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No Proof Detainee Photos Led to Military Deaths

CQ Politics | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

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The U.S. government's case for embargoing the release of photographs said to depict abuse of detainees rests largely on a questionable claim that disc...

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Busted, Pentagon: Why The Photos Probably Do Show Detainees Sodomized and Raped

Naomi Wolf | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Detainees Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence, Prisoner Abuse, Detainee Abuse Photos, Detainee Abuse, Abuse Photos, Obama Torture, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Naomi Wolf

Is systemic sex crime practiced by the US in a consequence of the lawlessness of "the war on terror" surprising to those of us who work on issues of sexual abuse and war? It is totally predictable.

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Obama Administration Cites Secret Statements By Petraeus In Asking Judge To Block Abuse Photos

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration asked a federal appeals court Thursday to halt the release of disturbing images of detainee abuse, saying ...

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Col. Wilkerson: "Cheney Kept Some Things From the President"

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Col. Wilkerson, Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell, Truth Commission, Waterboarding, Dick Cheney, Torture, Detainee Abuse, George Bush, Don Rumsfeld, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

We interviewed Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell and he had some very interesting things to say about Cheney and Rumsfeld.

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Jason Linkins

Abu Ghraib Ties To Gitmo Shown By DOJ Memos

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Detainee Abuse, Enhanced Interrogations, Dan Froomkin, Dick Cheney, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Yesterday, in his remarks at the American Enterprise Institute, former Vice President Dick Cheney protested that everyone had Abu Ghraib all wrong! ...

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A War on Terror by Any Other Name

John Cusack | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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John Cusack

What is most disturbing about the refusal to release the abuse photos is the broader pattern into which it fits -- a pattern of decisions that effectively preserve the framework of Bush's War on Terror.

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McCain Backs Obama Detainee Photo Decision

The New York Times | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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Senator John McCain on Thursday welcomed President Obama's decision to oppose the release of photographs documenting prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghan...

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Obama Makes Terrible Mistake by Not Releasing Pictures

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dilawar, Bagram Air Base, Barack Obama, Detainee Abuse Pictures, General David Petraeus, Abuse Pictures, Dick Cheney, Televison, Detainee Abuse, General Ray Odierno, Media, Democratic Party, Press, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

Obama has not just protected the torturers, but empowered them. They now get to claim they tried to protect America and that anyone who tries to show their misdeeds endangers America.

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Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Gitmo Cases

ProPublica | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

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ProPublica

A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some written by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a Bush-era federal court order.

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Looking Back at Abu Ghraib 5 Years Later

Mary Mapes | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prisioner Abuse, Abu Ghraib 5 Year Anniversary, Abu Ghraib 5 Years Later, CBS News, Detainee Abuse, Abu Ghraib Photos, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News
Mary Mapes

Five years ago, I was at work at CBS News in New York, holding a manila folder to my chest, guarding it with my life. Inside, there were pictures from Abu Ghraib.

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A Reasonable Observer's Response to the Torture Memos

Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Left Wing, Guantanamo Detainees, Sam Stein, Detainee Abuse, Right Wing, Waterboarding, Dietary Restrictions, Obama Tortue Decision, Torture Memos, Barack Obama, Detainees, Torture, Bush Torture Memos, Politics News
Martha St Jean

The Bush torture memos have provided more questions than answers. Where were the "reasonable observers" who should have given dissenting viewpoints based on legal and moral ramifications?

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Jason Linkins

Colbert Torches Obama On Bagram Decision (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

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While he only dedicated the first two minutes of his show to the issue, Stephen Colbert's mini-segment on President Barack Obama's decision to preserv...

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What We Do And Don't Know About US Medical Personnel and Interrogations

ProPublica | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medical Personnel, Harsh Interrogations, Detainee Abuse, Mark Danner, International Committe of the Red Cross, CIA Prisons, Torture, Bsct, Politics News
ProPublica

The list of unknowns is long. How, why and when the CIA brought SERE-affiliated psychologists and psychiatrists into the interrogation strategy of detainees remains a mystery.

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Afghanistan: A Surge in ROE Education is the First Step

Vivian Gembara | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Prosecutor, Trial, US Soldiers, Military Justice, Ware Crime, Mccain, US Troops, Obama, Roe, Soldiers, Marines, Army, Troop Misconduct, Code of Conduct, Jag, Detainee Abuse, Afghanistan, Insurgents, Iraq, Rules of Engagement in Iraq, Politics News
Vivian Gembara

The ugly issue of the misconduct of some U.S. troops in a war zone must be addressed before sending more soldiers and Marines into Afghanistan.

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Just What This Heartsick American Needed: A Republican Beacon for Civil Liberties

David Quigg | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, The Dark Side, Warrantless Wiretapping, Civil Liberties, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Ronald Rotunda, Guantanamo, 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean, War on Terror, Habeas Corpus, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Jane Mayer, Kyndra Rotunda, Detainee Abuse, Enhanced Interrogations, Constitution, Torture, Politics News
David Quigg

A Republican almost made me burst into tears. In a good way. Gov. Kean's specifics are a reminder of how much is at stake now and of how bad things have been since 9/11.

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Court: US Cannot Block Detainee Abuse Photos From Release

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

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NEW YORK — The United States cannot conceal pictures of abusive treatment of detainees by its soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan by saying their r...

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Iraq, Guantanamo Torture Proven By Medical Exams: Report

AP | JAMAL HALABY | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Iraq, Guantanamo, Detainee Abuse, Prisoner Abuse, Medical Exams Detainees, Human Rights Watch, Politics News

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 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Excellent Reporting, Rendition, Detainee Abuse, Torture, War Crimes, Ircc, Politics News
Larisa Alexandrovna

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 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Detainee Abuse Afghanistan, Global War on Terror, Detainee Abuse, Afghanistan, Politics News

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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