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

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.30.2009 | 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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How Experts In Brutality Became CIA's Tutors Of Torture

New York Times | SCOTT SHANE | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

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Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were military retirees and psychologists, on the lookout for business opportunities. They found an excellent customer in...

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As Judge Orders Release of Tortured Guantanamo Prisoner, Government Refuses to Concede Defeat

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

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Andy Worthington

I still have no firm idea why Obama and Holder have allowed the Justice Department to pursue unjustifiable and unwinnable habeas cases, resulting in humiliation after humiliation.

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Torture In US Goes Unprosecuted Beyond Gitmo (VIDEO)

Huffington Post Contributor | John Hamilton | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

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By John Hamilton Finally, there's been a criminal indictment for acts of torture. No, this isn't a case involving CIA operatives waterboarding high-...

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Pentagon Official: 9/11 Suspect Was Tortured

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration maintained Wednesday that the U.S. does not torture prisoners despite a claim to the contrary from the mili...

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DOD Ordered To Release Detainee Torture Photos

ACLU | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

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A federal court today ordered the Department of Defense to release photographs depicting the abuse of detainees by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan...

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US Torture May Have Left Pakistani Terror Suspect Mentally Incompetent, Lawyer Says

Washington Post | Carol D. Leonnig | Posted 10.06.2008 | Home

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NEW YORK, Sept. 4 -- The attorney for an American-trained behavioral scientist charged with trying to kill U.S. personnel in July said in court Thursd...

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John McCain, Torture Puppet

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

Beyond McCain's stunted historical memory, his outburst flies in the face of the evidence that the entire "War on Terror" imprisonment program has been both chronically brutal and irredeemably flawed.

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Canada Removes US And Israel From Torture Watch List

Reuters | David Ljunggren | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Canada's foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, said on Saturday it would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list o...

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