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9/11 Trial At Guantanamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please?

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Col. Peter Masciola, House of Representatives, Congress, David Kris, Col. Stephen Henley, World, War on Terror, Walid Bin Attash, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, David Hicks, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, 9/11, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Justice Department, Barack Obama, World News, Al Qaeda, Military Commissions, Politics News, Senate, Capt. John Murphy, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Bay, Maj. David Frakt, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Politics News

Scarcely in its history has the United States entertained such a shabby and shamelessly politicized travesty of justice as the Military Commissions.

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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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Obama's Meaningless War

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Vietnam, Taliban, Lyndon Johnson, Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Communism, Obama War in Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News

Meaningless is the right term for the Afghanistan war, because our bloody attempt to conquer this foreign land has nothing to do with its stated purpose of enhancing our national security.

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 9/11 Mastermind: HIs Days In N.C. 'Helped Propel Him To Terrorism'

WSJ | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: Ksm, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, KSM North Carolina, 9/11 Plotter, KSM North Carolina A, 9/11 Mastermind, World News

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, known inside the government as KSM, is the archetype of the evil genius, the man whose imagination gave birth to the twisted d...

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CIA To Release Torture Docs Cheney Requested

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, Interrogation Techniques, Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

This had been expected, and I've confirmed it: The CIA today will release the two documents Dick Cheney requested this spring that he claims will prov...

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Predictable Chaos as Guantanamo Trials Resume

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, David Hicks, President Obama, 9/11, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, World News, Politics News, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Lt. Rich Federico, Col. Morris Davis, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Bay, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, World, Human Rights First, Walid Bin Attash, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, Mohammed Kamin, Salim Hamdan, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Capt. John Murphy, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Federal Court, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Politics News

With no visible progress this was another dismal outing for the Commissions, and another warning for the Obama administration that any kind of revival of the wretched trial system will remain fraught with insoluble problems.

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Release of the "Holy Grail" of Torture Reports Delayed Again

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Sere, Cia Inspector General Report, ACLU Accountability for Torture, War on Terror, Harsh Interrogations, Terrorism, President Obama, Abu Zubaydah, Fbi, CIA Torture, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Office of Legal Counsel, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, Steven G. Bradbury, Breaking Politics News, Waterboarding, ACLU Torture, The Guantanamo Files, Cia Torture Memos, CIA Inspector General, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

Today was supposed to be the day that the Justice Department -- after two delays -- released an unclassified version of the CIA Inspector General's 2004 Report into the interrogations of "high-value detainees."

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Empty Evidence: The Stories of the Saudis Released From Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Khalid Saad Mohammed, War on Terror, Terrorism, Pakistan, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Justice Department, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Abdul Aziz Al-Noofayee, Politics News, Politics, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Saudi Arabia, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Gladys Kessler, Advocacy, Closing Guantanamo, World, World News, Politics News

Khalid Saad Mohammed seized from a hospital in Pakistan and sold to the U.S. military. But the authorities in GITMO had never managed to build up a credible case against him.

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Cheney, the CIA and Torture: Asking the Wrong Questions

Eric L. Lewis | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ticking Time Bomb, Guantanamo Detainees, Torture Debate, Guantanamo, Waterboarding, Cheney Torture, Dick Cheney Torture, Gitmo Detainees, Gitmo, Politics News

Cheney wants to take what is a stark legal and moral issue and turn it into yet another Washington "some argue this; some argue that" controversy, a clever bureaucratic maneuver.

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KSM Questioned About al Qaeda-Iraq Ties During Waterboarding

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terrorist Detention, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Al-Qaeda Iraq, Terrorism, Interogations, Waterboarding Iraq, Enhanced Interrogations, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Waterboarding, Iraq, Politics News

Some of the first questions asked of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed upon his capture and during the time during which he was waterboarded were about possible ...

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Khalid Sheik Mohammed: "I Gave A Lot Of False Information" To Make Torture Stop

Mark Nickolas | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Red Cross, Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri, Guantanamo Detainees, George W. Bush, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Bush Torture, International Committee of the Red Cross, Torture Memos, Dick Cheney, Torture, Bush Torture Memos, Politics News

The Bush torture memos pale in comparison to the leaked report issued by the Red Cross following two rounds of private interviews with the 14 "high value detainees" held at Guantanamo Bay.

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Even For Cheney, The Al Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Dan Coleman, Jack Cloonan, War on Terror, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, Fbi, Ibn Al-Shaykh Al-Libi, Maj. Paul Burney, Dick Cheney, Politics, Newsweek, New Yorker, Vice President Dick Cheney, Jose Padilla, Guantanamo Bay, David Rose, Colin Powell, Terrorism, Vanity Fair, Guantanamo Detainees, Arkan Al-Karim, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, Al Qaeda, Paul Wolfowitz, Iraq War, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Al Qaeda Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Cia, Jane Mayer, New York Times, Waterboarding, Iraq, Vice President Cheney, War Wire, World News

Coercive and illegal techniques were used widely at Gitmo in an attempt to secure information linking al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein.

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Justifications for Torture: You've Heard the Rest, Now Here's the Best

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ksm, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Warrantless Surveillance, Bush Administration, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

The obsessive pursuit of information has traditionally been the mark of a regime that rules by force and sees enemies at every turn.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Bush Administration, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Sean Hannity, Hiroshima, Waterboarding, Paul Begala, Atomic Bomb, Torture, Home News

Mark it down. The bar has been set. We now have the test by which we judge all actions taken by the leaders of America: Is it worse than burning 120,000 people to death? Call it the Buchanan Hiroshima-Nagasaki Standard. Appearing on Hardball this week to defend the Bush administration's use of torture, Pat Buchanan tried to offer a little perspective: "Is waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a worse thing than dropping two atomic bombs on people and burning 120,000 people to death? Sending 40,000 more to death by radiation?" I guess he preferred that WWII reference to the one from Paul Begala about us executing Japanese soldiers who waterboarded American POWs. Elsewhere on the torture front, Sean Hannity offered to be waterboarded for charity. A little like one of those charity auctions where celebrities agree to have lunch with the highest bidder. Only with a suffocation appetizer.

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Cheney Kept File Marked 'Detainees'

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Detainees File, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Waterboarding, Vice President Cheney, Torture, Detainees, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Dick Cheney wants a few reports released. The former Vice President, a man so secretive that while serving as Vice President he had his home remove...

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Hannity Wants to Be the Face of US Torture

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Right Wing Media, Michael Wolff, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Sean Hannity, CIA Torture, Shep Smith, Waterboarding, Torture, Media News

You wouldn't necessarily think that the right wing would want to distinguish itself by its enthusiasm for torture, but that's clearly the message Sean Hannity is gleefully sending.

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What if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Had Died?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Politics, Bush Administration, Waterboarding, Torture, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Politics News

I know what conservatives are screaming into their computers: "But he didn't die! None of them died. So, your question is an absurd hypothetical." In fact, many of them did die.

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Don't Prosecute -- and Scapegoat -- Torture Operatives; Go for the Top

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Jay Bybee, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, Abu Zubaydah, Bush Torture, President Bush, Torture, Politics News

Should we prosecute the agents who committed the torture? We should not. As a longtime advocate for prosecutions, that may sound surprising coming from me.

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Torture, Done in Our Name

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

If the rest of us are to live with ourselves, if we're to regain our own consciences, first we have to see it for what it was, and call it by its rightful name, this thing that was done in our name.

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Waterboarding Leads to this Tortured Blog Post!

Dave Astor | Posted 05.23.2009 | Comedy

When thinking about the Bush administration-sanctioned use of this brute force, I wondered how the torture guys decided on the 183 figure. Was it some kind of homage to Hank Greenberg driving in 183 runs in 1937?

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What Would You Not Do to Stop a Nuke?

Lionel | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Waterboarding, Jay Bybee, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Barack Obama, Abu Zubaydah, Torture, Monty Python, Politics News

What if torture, some torture, some despicable form, actually worked? Actually produced usable confessions and saved lives?

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Feds Ignore Jet Crashes at Operating Reactors

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Green Power, Terrorism, 9/11, Renewable Energy, Nuke Shutdowns, Greenpeace, Energy Policy, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons, Politics News

As you read this, jets hitting any of the nuclear reactors operating in the U.S. right now could kill untold thousands of us and render entire regions of our nation permanently uninhabitable.

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Who's Running Guantanamo?

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Hunger Strike, Terrorism, Abdul Rahim Al-Nashiri, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Lt. Col. Yvonne Bradley, Death in Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, Binyam Mohamed, David Addington, Military Commissions Act, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Politics, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Robert Gates, Sandra Hodgkinson, Breaking Politics News, Col. James Pohl, Mohammed Al-Qahtani, Tara Jones, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, World News

On January 20, the answer to that question seemed obvious. However, on January 29, the Commissions' recently appointed chief judge provided the first challenge to the president's plans.

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Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

Read More: CIA Secret Prisons, Col. Stephen Henley, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, Canada, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Politics, Khalid El-Masri, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Bush Administration Torture, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Bagram, Mohammed El-Gharani, Laid Saidi, Maher Arar, Marwan Jabour, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, The Guantanamo Files, President Bush, Syria, Fbi, Extraordinary Rendition, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, World News

In one of his first acts as president, Obama ordered prosecutors in Guantanamo's Military Commission trials to ask for a four-month stay on all proceedings.

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