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Bush Interrogators Used "Abdominal Slaps" To "Instill Fear And Despair"

Raw Story | Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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The following article was produced by The Raw Story and written by Larisa Alexandrovna. Recently declassified documents on the Bush administration i...

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Guantanamo Accountability

Mike Smith | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Torture, Senate, Pentagon, Eric Holder Attorney General, GuantáNamo Bay, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News
Mike Smith

Common Cause recently sponsored a compelling session at the National Press Club on prisoner abuse, military commissions trying detainees, and who is responsible for torturous interrogations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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The Weakness of Liz Cheney

Jon Soltz | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Freedoms Watch, Keep-America-Safe, Liz Cheney, Terrorism, votevets.org, Guantanamo Supermax Prison, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Torture, Ari Fleischer, Waterboarding, Brad Blakeman, Votevets, Supermax, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Jon Soltz

In the end, Liz Cheney and Keep America Safe are just a re-run of what was already tried and failed in 2008. Namely, using the veil of fear to mask an un-informed, false, and weak position.

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A Truly Shocking Guantanamo Story: Judge Confirms That an Innocent Man Was Tortured to Make False Confessions

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

The U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth.

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The Tangled Roots of the Terror Psychology: J. Robert Lennon's Novel "Castle"

Anis Shivani | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fascism, Bush Administration Torture, Terrorism, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Torture, Castle, J. Robert Lennon, War on Terror, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Anis Shivani

Lennon's unusual, very ambitious novel brings us closer to the terror protagonist than any post-9/11 novel yet.

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Duty vs. Conscience at Gitmo: A Former 9/11 Prosecutor Speaks Out

Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Torture, Michael Horrocks, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Stuart Couch, Detainee, Torture, Politics News
Joel B. Schwartzberg

Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Couch says alleged 9/11 conspirator Mohamedou Ould Slahi was tortured at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay.

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Losing Wars We Already Won (Part I): Torture vs. WWII

Shahid Buttar | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Investigation, Nuremberg Trials, Human Rights, Cold War, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Torture, Wwii, Criminal Justice System, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo, Criminal Justice, John Durham, Veterans, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Despite public pressure from voices across the political spectrum, the Obama administration continues to sweep torture under the rug.

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What's the Big Deal?

Jane Smiley | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Bush Administration, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo, Gitmo Torture, Bush Torture, Cia Memos, Gitmo, Dick Cheney, Republicans, Torture, Jane Smiley, Politics News
Jane Smiley

Make no mistake, if we as a nation sweep the Bush crimes, committed both here and abroad, under the rug because we're too lazy or afraid or "poor" to investigate, our criminals will be back with bigger plans.

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Holding Holder's Feet to the Fire

Nan Aron | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

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Nan Aron

Attorney General Eric Holder is a man on a seat that is hot and getting ever hotter. But we still don't know if the lawyers who wrote the torture memos will be brought to justice.

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Sami Al-Haj: Al Jazeera Journo Imprisoned At Gitmo To Sue George Bush

The Guardian | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

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An al-Jazeera journalist who was imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay plans to launch a joint legal action with other detainees against former US president G...

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Guantanamo Detainees Protested Over Strip Searches, Humiliation

Miami Herald | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

Read More: Gitmo Closing, Foreign Affairs, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo, Gitmo Torture, Gitmo Detainees, Gitmo, Cuba, Closing Guantanamo, Advocacy, World News

For two weeks in June, two dozen war-on-terror captives staged a sit-in at an exercise yard in a maximum-security prison camp -- refusing to budge fro...

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Binyam Mohamed Torture Claims To Be Investigated By UK

The Independent | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

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The Metropolitan Police are to investigate claims that British agents colluded in torture, Scotland Yard said today. ...

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Ex-Gitmo Prosecutor Calls For Torture Investigation

Salon | Anthony Romero and Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

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Torture is a crime and the United States engaged in it. Those are two indisputable facts. Given the mountains of evidence already in the public domain...

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Jason Linkins

Gitmo Detainees: Records Document "Shocking" Weight Loss

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media

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When most people talk about the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, the focus is usually on what a beauty queen-endorsed demi-paradise it is. Or the ...

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Second Thoughts on Cheney Indictment: Pardon Him ... And Others Too

Lanny Davis | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Congress, Bush Administration Torture, Jane Harman, Cia Waterboarding, Richard Nixon, Guantanamo Torture, Gop, Obama Administration, Cheney Torture, Waterboarding, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Lanny Davis

Obama should pardon not only Mr. Cheney, but everyone else in the prior administration who approved or knew about the illegal water-boarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques.

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Land of the Safe and Home of the Cruel

David Bromwich | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics

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David Bromwich

Obama's National Archives speech was one more by Barack Obama that deferred action. It suggested the comprehension of an enormous wrong which it decided only partly to remedy.

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Painful Truth in Cheney's Spat with Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Torture, Executive Orders, George Bush, Terrorism War, Guantanamo Detainees, President Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The painful truth in former Vice President Dick Cheney's spat with President Obama is that there are still far too many places where Obama's policy resembles Bush policy on the terrorism war.

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Dick Cheney Will Protect You, and Liberals Want Your First Born

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, Obama, Saddam, Al Qaeda, Gitmo, Torture, Cheney, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Torture, Gop, Cheney Torture, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Did Cheney show a lack of commitment to national security by limiting the interrogation techniques to waterboarding?

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1 In 7 Guantanamo Detainees Freed Return To Terrorism: Pentagon

New York Times | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

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An unreleased Pentagon report provides new details concluding that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the prison ...

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The Phony Debate About Torture

Elizabeth Holtzman | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Torture, Obama Torture Prosecutions, CIA Torture, Bush Torture, Bush Administration Torture, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News
Elizabeth Holtzman

Torture can never be used because our Constitution bans it. There are no exceptions -- not for heinous crimes or ticking bombs.

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We Can't Handle the Lie!

Shannyn Moore | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Jay Bybee, Germany, Waterboarding, Terrorists, Nuremberg Trials, Torture, John Yoo, Guantanamo Torture, Obama, Dick Cheney Torture, Tokyo Tribunals, David Addington, Bruce Springsteen, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

If a picture tells a thousand words, the pictures now being held back by Obama, scream volumes. Their testimony demands the light of day much like the men in our containment.

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ACLU: No One is Above the Law

Blaise Zerega | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Aclu, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo, Anthony Romero, Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News
Blaise Zerega

No one should be surprised that the ACLU would issue a call to prosecute those who authorized torture on detainees.

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Congressman Jim Moran on Torture and Accountability

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Koran, Geneva Conventions, Geneva Accord, Congressional Democrats, Democratic Congress, Congress, President Obama, Cheney, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Military, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Cheney Torture, President Bush, Accountability, Jim Moran, Politics News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Congressman Moran: Those who are culpable need to be judged by their peers and I think we need to put in place some kinds of structures to ensure that we never repeat our mistakes.

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The Torture Debate Will Be Won or Lost on National Security, not Morality or Legality

Frankie Sturm | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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Frankie Sturm

We don't have to leave morals or laws on the sideline, but unless we're satisfied with preaching to the choir, national security needs to be the focus of our case against torture.

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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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