Guantanamo Torture

Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Gitmo Cases

ProPublica | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

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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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Torture Images From Set Of Standard Operating Procedure Retell Story Of Abu Ghraib

Huffington Post Contributors | Nubar Alexanian and Katharine Thomas | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

Photographs by Nubar Alexanian Text by Katharine Thomas One of President Obama's first executive decisions in office was to prohibit the use of inte...

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Psychologists Under Fire For Role In Torture

Inter Press Service | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

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By William Fisher NEW YORK, May 7 (IPS) - A leading human rights organisation is charging that an American Psychological Association (APA) task fo...

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Guantanamo Detainee Files Could Be Destroyed By Government

Pro Publica | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

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A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some authored by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a little-know...

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Retired Brigadier General: Those Who Approved Torture "Must Be Held Accountable"

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

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Says Adams: "I have never known anyone in a leadership position in the military who would condone torture. They would never do it... which is to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law."

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The Toxic Residue of Torture

Deepak Chopra | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

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If the truth sets you free, then let's have a truth commission as a first step. Lay everything out, however painful. The aim should not be punishment but detoxification.

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David Corn: Special Prosecutor's Job Is Not To Expose Wrongdoing

Mother Jones | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

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The other day I ran into a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, and this person noted that he fancied the idea of appointing a special p...

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Jonathan Fredman: Key Bush Era 'Enhanced Interrogator' Still At CIA

Washington Independent | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

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"As a general deal," President Barack Obama said Tuesday about Bush administration officials who shaped the post-9/11 interrogation and detention regi...

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Obama's CIA Torture Prosecution Stance Leads To Outcry From Human Rights Groups, Muslim World

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

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CAIRO — Human rights groups and former detainees in U.S. custody expressed disappointment Friday with the decision by President Barack Obama not...

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Schumer: DOJ Should Investigate Red Cross Reports Of Torture

Raw Story | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

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A powerful Democrat has added his voice to those calling for a federal investigation into reports of torture at Guantanamo Bay and at black site priso...

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Yemeni Guantanamo Detainee Ordered Released By US Judge

AP | NEDRA PICKLER and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the United States to release a prisoner from the Guantanamo detention center who said he fears f...

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Obama's Yemen Problem

Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

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Instead of branding the Yemenis guilty until proven innocent, the United States and Yemen should prosecute those against whom they have evidence and repatriate the rest.

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Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, Former Gitmo Detainee, Now A Taliban Leader

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The Taliban's new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan had been a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the la...

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Binyam Mohamed: Release Of Detainee Fuels Demands For UK To Clarify Its Role In Gitmo Detention

The Independent | Robert Verkaik, Law Editor | Posted 03.27.2009 | World

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The seven-year ordeal of a British resident who claims he was brutally tortured before being sent to Guantanamo Bay was brought to an end last night d...

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Binyam Mohamed Freed After 4 Years In Guantanamo

AP | PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 03.26.2009 | World

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LONDON — The first Guantanamo detainee released since President Barack Obama took office returned to Britain on Monday, saying his seven years o...

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Binyam Mohamed To Be Returned To Britain

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

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LONDON — A former U.K. resident who alleges he was tortured while in U.S. custody will soon be released from Guantanamo Bay and sent back to Bri...

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Cheney: Chief of Churls

John Seery | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

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It's becoming clearer and clearer that official acts of cruelty had little to do, either in intent or effect, with enhancing national security or producing reliable intelligence.

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Brandon Neely, Former Guantanamo Guard, Recalls Systematic Torture, Sexual Abuse Of Detainees

Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

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In December 4, 2008, Specialist Brandon Neely approached CSHRA with testimony he wished to contribute to the Guantánamo Testimonials Project. He beli...

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Brandon Neely, Former Guantanamo Guard, Recalls Systematic Torture, Sexual Abuse Of Detainees

AP | MIKE MELIA | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Army Pvt. Brandon Neely was scared when he took Guantanamo's first shackled detainees off a bus. Told to expect vicious ...

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Gitmo Detainee's 'Genitals Were Sliced With A Scalpel,' Waterboarding 'Far Down The List Of Things They Did': British Paper

Daily Telegraph | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Material in a CIA dossier on Mr Mohamed that was blacked out by High Court judges contained details of how British intelligence officers supplied info...

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The GOP's Phony Honor

Mark Nickolas | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

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Republicans are accusing Obama of disrespecting the Oval Office by not enforcing a coat and tie dress code. What next, a lecture from Karl Rove about obeying the law?

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Ex-CIA Official: Torture Ban A "Great Leap Forward"

Washington Independent | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama took a major step toward undoing the interrogation and detention policies of the Bush administration on Thursday, issuing four ...

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Judge Orders Release of Guantanamo's Forgotten Child

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.15.2009 | World

Just two weeks ago, in a habeas corpus case in a Washington D.C. court, Judge Richard Leon turned the clock back to January 11, 2002 (the day Guantán...

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Clint and Cheney: a Tale of Two Dicks

Arianna Huffington | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

The VP and Eastwood's character are both gruff, prickly, taciturn, sandpaper-voiced men, given to conservative views, macho posturing, and a narrow view of right and wrong. And they both always seem on the verge of telling people around them to go f**k themselves. Read More Will The Madoff Debacle Finally End The "Who Could Have Known?" Era? Iraq. Fannie Mae. Citigroup. Bernie Madoff. When you look at the elements that were crucial to the creation of each of these debacles, it's amazing how much in common they all have. And not just in how they began but in how they ended: with those responsible being amazed at what happened, because...who could have known? Read More Watch: Arianna Talks New Media and Politics with Ashton Kutcher

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More Than A Prison

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

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Guantanamo Bay is not just a prison, it's a state of mind, and a legal limbo in which hundreds have been trapped in legal limbo since 2002.

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