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Bush White House Sought To Soften Treaty On 'Enforced Disappearances'

Washington Post | R. Jeffrey Smith | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

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From 2003 to 2006, the Bush administration quietly tried to relax the draft language of a treaty meant to bar and punish "enforced disappearances" so ...

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An Obama Rendition Scenario

Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Detention, Terrorism, Satire, Barack Obama, Rendition, Torture, Habeas Corpus, Secret Prisons, Bush Rendition, U.S Rendition Policy, Obama Anti-Torture, Obama Rendition, Politics News
Barton Kunstler, Ph.D.

Obama recently ratified continuation of the U.S. rendition policy. Amazingly, I just received a recording from the near-future of an interrogation conducted under the new kinder, gentler rules. Let's listen in.

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U.S. Says It Will Preserve Secret Jails for Terror Case

nytimes.com | BENJAMIN WEISER and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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The government will agree to preserve the secret overseas sites where a defendant in a terror case was once held and, his lawyers say, subjected to ha...

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CIA Black Sites No Longer Being Used, Panetta Says

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The CIA has stopped using contractors to interrogate prisoners and fired private security guards at the CIA's now-shuttered secret ...

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Unspeakable Abuse at Gitmo -- We Need the Names of These "Medical Personnel"

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Human Rights, Guantanamo Bay, Torture, Bush Administration, Army Private Brandon Neely, Black Sites, Secret Prisons, War Crimes, World News
Larisa Alexandrovna

The medical staff at Gitmo who engaged in torture of detainees all violated their oath and should have their medical licenses revoked. I want names.

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