Torture, renditions, black bagging, involuntary stress, water boarding, mock executions ... pain, torment and terror delivered at the behest of the United States government.
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News No sanctions for lawyers who OK'd torture
01-31-2010
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AP
Bush administration lawyers who drafted legal theories that led to waterboarding and other harsh treatment of terrorism suspects showed poor judgment but won't face sanctions for professional misconduct, according to a published report.
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News Detainees Will Still Be Held, but Not Tried, Official Says
01-22-2010
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NY Times
Obama will continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba because a task force concluded they are too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release, an administration official said on Thurs
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News Appeals court upholds ruling to detain terror suspect
01-06-2010
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Washington Post
A federal appeals court endorsed the government's sweeping authority to detain terrorism suspects whom it can link to al-Qaeda, the Taliban and affiliated groups. They went further rejecting attempts to apply principles from "the laws of war" to dete
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News The End Does Not Justify The Means - The Newjurist International Law Magazine
01-03-2010
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by Christine Smith
Intention does not detract from the gravity of committing a wrongful action.
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News Another Year for Gitmo
01-01-2010
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Wendy McElroy
Rebuffed by Democrat lawmakers to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to replace Guantánamo prison. Officials believe they are unlikely to close the prison at Guantánamo until 2011 at the earliest...
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News 58% want underwear bomber tortured
01-01-2010
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Raw Story
Despite the centuries-old ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the latest Rasmussen poll indicates that 58% of Americans think the would-be Xmas terrorist should be subjected to "aggressive" interrogation techniques.
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News Americans Are Hell-Bent On Tyranny by Paul Craig Roberts
12-27-2009
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Rense.com
"Tiger Woods is paying a bigger price for his girlfriends than Bush or Cheney will ever pay for the deaths and ruined lives of millions of people."
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News Guantanamo prison may have to stay open until 2011
12-23-2009
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AP
The Guantanamo Bay prison may not close until 2011 because it will take months for the feds to buy an Illinois prison. Congress also needs to change a law prohibiting detention in the US of detainees who are not awaiting trial.
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News From Guantánamo Cell to a Desk at Al Jazeera
12-22-2009
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NY Times
Of the 779 known detainees who have been held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — terrorism suspects, sympathizers of Al Qaeda, people deemed enemy combatants by the United States military — only one was a journalist.
The journalist, Sami al-Hajj, was worki
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News Lithuanian security approved CIA torture prisons
12-22-2009
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AP
Lithuania's intelligence agency helped the CIA set up secret prisons in the Baltic country, but it's unclear whether they were actually used to interrogate terror suspects, a parliamentary panel said Tuesday.
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News SCOTUS ruling means torture could return: civil rights group
12-15-2009
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Rawstory
The US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by 4 former Guantanamo inmates who want to sue the US government for torture, a move the inmates' lawyers say could pave the way for future torture practices by the US military.
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News Ill Prison to Get Some Gitmo Detainees
12-14-2009
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AP
The White House plans to announce Tuesday that a rural Illinois prison will be acquired by the federal government to become the new home for a limited number of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Administration officials as well as Illinois Sen. Richard Du
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News David Miliband attacks 'irresponsible' judges over Binyam Mohamed
12-14-2009
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London Times
Lawyers for the Foreign Secretary mounted an extraordinary attack on High Court judges who want to disclose intelligence material relating to allegations of torture involving the CIA. David Miliband accused the 2 senior judges of irresponsibly "charg
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News US Supreme Court rejects Guantanamo torture case
12-14-2009
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Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it rejected an appeal by four former Guantanamo Bay prisoners arguing that they should be able to proceed with their lawsuit against top Pentagon officials for torture and religious abuse.
The justices re
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News Defense Dept. faulted for not taping detainee
12-10-2009
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Washington Post
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Defense Department was in contempt of court for failing to videotape the testimony of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who is challenging his detention in court.
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler had ordered the g
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News White House wants suit against Yoo dismissed
12-09-2009
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San Francisco Chronicle
The Obama admin asked an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former Bush admin attorney John Yoo of authorizing the torture of a terrorism suspect, saying federal law does not allow damage claims against lawyers who advise the president on na
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News Gitmo ’suicide’ trio had rags stuffed down throats
12-07-2009
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Rawstory
Just how -- and why -- 3 people who hanged themselves would have managed to stuff rags down their throats before they died. Why neither the guards on duty nor the paramedics who showed up were interviewed; or why the paramedics didn't even ask the gu
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News Afghans Detail Detention in ‘Black Jail’ at U.S. Base
11-29-2009
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NY Times
An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on
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News Justice Department Pointlessly Gags Guantánamo Lawyer
11-23-2009
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Andy Worthington
Al-Ghizzawi is clearly an innocent man. Back in 2004, when the Bush administration convened military review boards to review the prisoners’ cases, they concluded there was insufficient evidence to declare him an “enemy combatant,” and that he should
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News Taser manufacturer recommends use on genitals
11-22-2009
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Wendy McElroy
Taser International, in the user’s manual that comes with every Taser, states the following, “application of the Taser to the genitals is PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE.” Taser openly encourages the use of the weapon on the groin. For the stun gun mode, or “
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News Iraq: Investigation into new claims of torture by British soldiers
11-15-2009
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Daily Telegraph
New allegations that British soldiers tortured and sexually abused Iraqi civilians are being "investigated" by the Ministry of Defence.
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News Israeli ‘portable pain ray’ raises fears of non-lethal weapons proliferation
11-14-2009
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Raw Story
The Man-Portable Active Denial System...can beam a microwave ray that causes skin surface to heat up to 130 deg. F., causing the nerve cells in the skin to think they're on fire.
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News Gitmo 9/11 suspects heading to NY trial
11-13-2009
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AP
Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 4 other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, and 5 other suspects will be sent to military commissions [WTF?].
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Feature Article Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock Afternoon November 12th 2009 Ernest Hancock
Scott Horton from Harpers Magazine on the Italian governments conviction of 23 American oficials and CIA for RENDITIONS / Declan McCullagh (CBS) - U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide det
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News U.S. citizen sues over treatment in 'rendition'
11-10-2009
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Washington Post
An American who was captured by Kenyan forces in January 2007 filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington on Tuesday, arguing that FBI agents allegedly involved in his interrogation and transfer to other countries violated his constitutional righ
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News More declassified documents reveal FBI warnings about CIA interrogation tactics
11-08-2009
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Rawstory
Previously censored documents released late Friday by the Dept. of Justice shed more light on the FBI investigation into CIA interrogation tactics. In 2003, the FBI sent repeated warnings to the Dept. of Defense, but abusive interrogations occurred f
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News Voices of Gitmo
11-06-2009
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The Agitator
This ACLU video profiles the Gitmo prisoners detained, tortured, and then released without charge.
You might keep the recent 2nd Circuit ruling my colleague Jacob Sullum wrote about yesterday in mind while watching.
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News Holder, Gates oppose restrictions on Gitmo trials
11-03-2009
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AP
A measure sponsored by Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain and Independent Joe Lieberman would block the Justice Department from spending any funds to prosecute detainees from the Cuban island jail.
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News FBI documents reveal secret CIA prisoners ‘manacled to the ceiling’
11-01-2009
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Rawstory
FBI officials visiting an overseas prison run by the CIA found prisoners 'manacled to the ceiling and subjected to blaring music around the clock', according to the documents.
Handwritten notes attributed to Justice Department officials discuss th
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Headlines: No sanctions for lawyers who OK'd torture -- Detainees Will Still Be Held, but Not Tried, Official Says -- Appeals court upholds ruling to detain terror suspect -- The End Does Not Justify The Means - The Newjurist International Law Magazine -- Another Year for Gitmo -- 58% want underwear bomber tortured -- Americans Are Hell-Bent On Tyranny by Paul Craig Roberts
-- Guantanamo prison may have to stay open until 2011 -- From Guantánamo Cell to a Desk at Al Jazeera -- Lithuanian security approved CIA torture prisons -- SCOTUS ruling means torture could return: civil rights group -- Ill Prison to Get Some Gitmo Detainees -- David Miliband attacks 'irresponsible' judges over Binyam Mohamed -- US Supreme Court rejects Guantanamo torture case -- Guantanamo Detainee Deaths -- Defense Dept. faulted for not taping detainee -- White House wants suit against Yoo dismissed -- Gitmo ’suicide’ trio had rags stuffed down throats -- Afghans Detail Detention in ‘Black Jail’ at U.S. Base -- Justice Department Pointlessly Gags Guantánamo Lawyer -- Taser manufacturer recommends use on genitals -- Iraq: Investigation into new claims of torture by British soldiers -- Israeli ‘portable pain ray’ raises fears of non-lethal weapons proliferation -- Gitmo 9/11 suspects heading to NY trial -- Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock Afternoon November 12th 2009 -- U.S. citizen sues over treatment in 'rendition' -- More declassified documents reveal FBI warnings about CIA interrogation tactics -- Voices of Gitmo -- Holder, Gates oppose restrictions on Gitmo trials -- FBI documents reveal secret CIA prisoners ‘manacled to the ceiling’ --
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