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Have you heard the screams of a prisoner being tortured in America's war on terror? I can't forget them. They pierced the walls of a detention center I visited in Samarra during an offensive by American and Iraqi forces in 2005.
U.S. TV PROVIDES AMPLE PLATFORM FOR AMERICAN TORTURERS, BUT NONE TO THEIR VICTIMS.
Not only is torture against international law, it also produces no useful intelligence. Common sense is enough to prove that statement.
A federal judge ordered NY Times reporter James Risen to appear in court to answer questions about his book detailing a failed CIA effort to undermine Iran's nuclear weapons program, in a case that has become a touchstone of press freedom.
The Senate's investigation may only be the tip of the iceberg.
On the news talk shows, everyone is talking about torture -- mostly defending the Bush administration's hysterical actions after the 9/11 attacks.
Ex-CIA Director Morrell says terrorist attack in U.S. "guaranteed"
Glenn Greenwald unloads on torture, CIA and Washington's rotten soul
Torture is a crime under both American and international law. The Bush administration repeatedly broke the law from 2002 to 2006 by unleashing a wave of torture, kidnapping, and murder, all under the banner of its faux "war on terror."
One falsehood gets repeated as fact by reporters, namely, the torture program stopped years ago. It has not. The Appendix M of the 2006 Army Field Manual on interrogation methods allows military and CIA to continue
The reporter, James Risen, has been battling for years to stop prosecutors from forcing him to name his source for a book that revealed a CIA effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Lawyers for the men plan to request access to the full report -- only 11% of which was declassified in summary form -- and now have a road map of which CIA documents to ask the military commissions judge to give them access to
Congress fails to hold executive branch accountable for its massive violations of human rights as documented in the released summary of the CIA Torture Report, but passes sanctions on Venezuela for "human rights violations."
We all know that nothing is going to happen to the CIA officials who violated the criminal law by torturing people.
Even if torture were condonable, it doesn't work, says a research psychologist. What does?
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Bush administration relied on false report to build case for invasion; Levin repeats call for full declassification.
After a doctor X-rayed one prisoner's feet and determined they were badly broken, another physician recommended that he could be made to stand for 52 hours.
"The CIA," according to the Senate Intelligence Committee, had "historical experience using coercive forms of interrogation."
The Central Intelligence Agency used contentious interrogation techniques, including waterboarding and sleep deprivation, on dozens of the 119 men it detained in secret prisons between 2002 and 2008.
Prosecution Abroad Possible, Experts Say
Defenders of the Warfare State insist such methods are a cruel but necessary tactic in a struggle against implacable foreign enemies. After all, "we're at war," supposedly, and foreign enemy combatants aren't entitled to Due Process
CIA Torture Reports: Frozen to Death; Rectal Rehydration, Broken Limbs; 54 Countries Assist US; Dick Cheney War Criminal .
In response to CIA Torture Reports: Frozen to Death; Dick Cheney War Criminal I received an interesting response from a U.S. Army Major.
Dianne Feinstein was the canary in the coalmine. If even the senior Senator from California, as stalwart an ally of the CIA and the National Security State as one is likely to find, was upset enough to make such a fuss about the Senate torture report
The dark shame of how we abused prisoners at secret prisons after 9/11.
CIA Sought to Use 'Israeli Example' in Pro-Torture PR Campaign.
Horrific Torture Report Shows Why Much Of The World Considers America To Be The Nazis Of The 21st Century
SENATE REPORT: U.S. TORTURE PROGRAM "MORE BRUTAL" THAN PREVIOUSLY DISCLOSED AND CIA OFFICIALS GAVE FALSE INFORMATION TO CONGRESS
Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) spoke about the newly released CIA Torture Report on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon, decrying the use of harsh interrogation methods against detainees.
