Torture Plagiarism
It's one thing to use Chinese toys to bring our children's lead-paint intake up to FDA standards but should we really subject our precious national torture resources to Chinese influence?
It's one thing to use Chinese toys to bring our children's lead-paint intake up to FDA standards but should we really subject our precious national torture resources to Chinese influence?
Think Progress | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
In February, CIA Director Michael Hayden confirmed that his agency used waterboarding on three al Qaeda suspects. But revelations from a former detain...
ABC News | JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
President Bush says he knew his top national security advisors discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be...
BBC News | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
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. ...
AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 02.16.2008 | Politics
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Interrogators got intelligence from detainees that helped U.S. troops in Afghanistan attack Taliban fighters l...
Think Progress | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
Today in an interview with BBC Radio's Law in Action, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia defended torture, claiming that it is not necessarily ...
Washington Post | Josh White, Dan Eggen and Joby Warrick | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration announced yesterday that it intends to bring capital murder charges against half a dozen men allegedly linked to the Sept. 11,...
Reuters | Randall Mikkelsen | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics
The United States used waterboarding in terrorism interrogations but no longer does, a former U.S. spy chief said in the Bush administration's most ex...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A federal judge said Thursday that CIA interrogation videotapes may have been relevant to his court case, and he gave the Bush admi...
NY Times | PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics
The Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques was renominate...
TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
There are good days in court, and there are bad days in court. From The New York Times: "I'm asked to believe that actual motion pictures, videotapes...
Crooks and Liars | Nicolle Bell | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics
Obviously, the Republican leadership has gotten to Sen. Kit Bond with the message: You're. Not. Helping. Our. Cause. by likening waterboarding to swim...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics
The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that re...
HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
Someone call Patrick Fitzgerald. Today Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) sent a letter to Attorney General Mukasey requesting the immediate appointment of a speci...
Associated Press | Pamela Hess | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden faces two days of testimony behind closed doors at the Senate and House intelligence committees to answer questions a...
CBS News | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
As Congress seeks answers about why the CIA destroyed tapes of terror suspects under interrogation, White House lawyers have advised President Bush's ...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
The egregious redactions and erasures made by Bush are not only in violation of the Presidential Records Act, they are an effront to Congress, the Constitution, and international law.
The Independent | Robert Verkaik | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
Lawyers for a British resident who the US government refuses to release from Guantanamo Bay have identified the existence of photographs taken by CIA ...
The Hill | Roxana Tiron | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee so far is the only Republican presidential candidate scheduled to meet in Iowa with a group of retired generals and...
Think Progress | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics
Last night, John Ashcroft delivered an address on the Cornell University campus "in the face of shouting dissenters and shrouded protesters." At his l...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics
The U.S. has now become the dumping ground of choice for those who have committed the most heinous crimes, principally because we lack the laws necessary to prosecute them.
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics
The stories of the Guantánamo detainees do nothing to bolster the administration's claims that those detained in the "War on Terror" were so dangerous that it was worth breaking domestic and international law and introducing torture as official US policy.
Philip Giraldi | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics
The increasing tendency to designate critics as enemies or allies of terrorists suggests that the worldview of 1936 Berlin is not so far removed from that of 2007 Washington.
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David Misch | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics