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Psychologists End Guantanamo Collaboration, Will No Longer Help Government In Interrogations

Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

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The nation's leading psychologist's association has voted to ban its members from taking part in interrogations at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,...

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Judge For Bin Laden's Driver Nixes Evidence Collected Under "Highly Coercive" Conditions

AP | MIKE MELIA | Posted 07.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Osama Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden's Driver, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Torture, Torture, Bush Administration Torture, Habeas Corpus, Home News

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — A former driver for Osama bin Laden knew the target of the fourth hijacked plane on Sept. 11, a prosecutor sai...

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Douglas Feith On Torture: "Some People Do Bad Things"

Washington Independent | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Interrogation Gitmo, Gitmo Interrogations, Guantanamo Interrogations, Guantanamo Detainees, Douglas Feith, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Doug Feith, Gitmo Torture, Interrogation Techniques, Politics News

At a hearing about interrogation techniques in Guantanamo, the former Under Secretary of Defense explains away abuse: After going back and forth wit...

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Foreclosure Crisis, Fuel Efficiency, Bush Iran, Clean Air Act, Racial Profiling, Dick Cheney, Stopping Coal Power Plants, Whistleblowers, Voter Disenfranchisement, Extinction, Chemical Weapons Stockpile, Guantanamo Torture, Whale Hunting, CDC Climate Report, Global Warming, Wildlife, Green News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

Home foreclosures could affect voting rolls, Judge blocks coal plant due to global warming, Japan automakers control 34.7 percent of U.S. market, and U.S. exports to Iran grew tenfold under Bush.

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Guantanamo: Repatriation as Russian Roulette

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mustafa Hamlili, Terrorism, Sandra Hodgkinson, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Abdul Raham Houari, Return to Torture, Algeria, The Guantanamo Files, Ahmed Belbacha, Al Qaeda, Guantanamo Torture, Torture, Politics News
Andy Worthington

In the disturbing game of Russian roulette that confronts Algerians repatriated after facing allegations of impropriety (however groundless), they could face torture, show trials and further imprisonment.

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The Candidates' Idiotic Debate Over War On Terror

Lionel Beehner | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Torture, Mccain, War on Terror, Barack Obama, Terrorism, John McCain, Mccain Terrorism, 2008 Election, Obama McCain Terrorism, Obama Terrorism, Politics News
Lionel Beehner

Is the war on terror winnable using traditional law-enforcement tools, or does it require manlier military means?

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The Supreme Court Returns the Constitution to Guantánamo

Deborah Colson | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

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Deborah Colson

The Court has returned the Constitution to Guantánamo, where rules violate basic principles of justice and human rights. But the military commission system cannot be fixed with one good decision.

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"Standard Operating Procedures"

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Standard Operating Procedure, Scott Mcclellan, Impeachment, Scott McClellan Book, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Torture, CIA Torture, Scott McClellan George Bush, John McCain Torture, Detainees, Torture, Habeas Corpus, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

While some may say this emperor (Bush) has no clothes, he's still managed to hide his derriere better, and operate with impunity more effectively, than any in recent memory.

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On the Ground at Guantanamo Bay

Sharon Kelly | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics

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Sharon Kelly

The global war on terror's "code red" rules allowed for torture while the myth of Guantanamo as a separate place led some to the incorrect assumption that those practices could be contained there.

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Report: U.S. Soldiers Did 'Dirty Work' For Chinese Interrogators

ABC's The Blotter | Justin Rood | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

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U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island ...

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Former Gitmo Prosecutor: I Resigned To Prevent Waterboarding As Evidence

NY Times | Morris Davis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Twenty-seven years ago, in the final days of the Iran hostage crisis, the C.I.A.'s Tehran station chief, Tom Ahern, faced his principal interrogator f...

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Gitmo Interrogator Describes Tactics

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Interrogators got intelligence from detainees that helped U.S. troops in Afghanistan attack Taliban fighters l...

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Time Runs Out For An Afghan Held By The U.S.

NY Times | Carlotta Gall | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Abdul Razzaq Hekmati was regarded here as a war hero, famous for his resistance to the Russian occupation in the 1980s and later for a daring prison b...

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81 Protestors Arrested At Supreme Court

Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Eighty-one people were arrested at the Supreme Court Friday in a protest calling for the shutdown of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....

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Judge Halts CIA Tapes Investigation

Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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A federal judge refused on Wednesday to delve into the destruction of CIA interrogation videos, saying there was no evidence the Bush administration v...

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Bush Administration Going To Court Over CIA Tapes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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A federal judge has ordered a hearing on whether the Bush administration violated a court order by destroying CIA interrogation videos of two al-Qaida...

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Mukasey Won't Give Congress CIA Tape Details

Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today sharply rebuffed congressional demands for details about the Justice Department's inquiry into the destructi...

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CIA Official Who Ordered Tapes Destroyed Lawyers Up

TPMmuckraker | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Blink and you'll miss it in today's New York Times piece on the House's torture ban. But Jose Rodriguez, the CIA's ex-operations director who ordered ...

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Detainee Lawyer Claims Has CIA Pictures of Guantanamo Torture

The Independent | Robert Verkaik | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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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