Globalized Torture
Stephen Lendmantorture
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Torture
Guantanamo Hunger Strike Spreads
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Officer who oversaw destruction of CIA torture evidence might get major promotion
• RT.comThe woman who signed off on the destruction of evidence proving the CIA’s implementation of torture has been promoted within the agency.
Eric Holder: If the President Does It, It’s Legal
• www.antiwar.com“I never thought I would see the day when a Justice Department would claim that only the most extreme infliction of pain and physical abuse constitutes torture and that acts that are merely cruel, inhuman and degrading are consistent with United Stat
Pentagon Ran Torture Centers in Iraq, Atrocities Revealed
• antiwar“The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the ‘dirty wars’ in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents,” The Guardian reports. “These units conduct
'Time for a Reckoning': UN Investigator says US/UK Must Account for Torture, Human Rights Vi
• Common Dreams'Words are not enough. Platitudinous repetition of statements affirming opposition to torture ring hollow,' says Ben Emmerson'
British terror suspects quietly stripped of citizenship… then killed by drones
• independent.co.ukThe Government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people of their British citizenship on national security grounds – with two of the men subsequently killed by American drone attacks.
The Hidden History of Water Torture
• antiwarWater torture has been a U.S. military staple since the beginning of the twentieth century, when it was employed by Americans fighting an independence movement in the Philippines. American troops would continue to use the brutal tactic in
Afghan President: US Military Torturing, Murdering Innocent Civilians
• http://www.commondreams.org, Craig BrownPresident Hamid Karzai had ordered the Ministry of Defense to kick out the US Special Forces
Autopsy: Palestinian Prisoner Died of 'Extreme Torture' in Israeli Custody
• http://www.commondreams.org, Craig BrownAn autopsy on the body of Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old father of two, showed that he died of "extreme torture" in Israeli custody and did not have a cardiac arrest, the Palestinian Authority Minister of Detainee Affairs said Sunday.
“I Begged for Them to Stop”: Waterboarding Americans and the Redefinition of Torture
• http://www.commondreams.org, by Nick TurseTry to remain calm -- even as you begin to feel your chest tighten and your heart race.
CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries 'offered covert support'
• The GuardianAt least 54 countries co-operated with the global kidnap, detention and torture operation that was mounted after 9/11, many of them in Europe. It is now clear the CIA could not have operated its program without their support, according to the OSJI.
Guantanamo 9/11 trial judge orders hidden censors unplugged
• http://www.mcclatchydc.com, Carol RosenbergThe military judge presiding at the Sept. 11 trial Thursday ordered the government to unplug any outside censors who can reach into his courtroom and silence the war crimes tribunal.
British man claims he was tortured and forced to sign confessions by CIA
• RT.comA British man who was handed over to the CIA under the suspicion of being an Islamist terrorist says he was severely tortured by collaborators of the intelligence agency and forced to sign a confession.
US defense contractor pays $5M to Iraqis who alleged torture at Abu Ghraib
• APA defense contractor who was accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to torture detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has paid $5.28 million to 71 former inmates held there and at other U.S.-run detention sites between 2003 and 2007.
CIA officer John Kiriakou imprisoned to protect 9/11 cover-up
• www.veteranstoday.comBut a quick peek behind the scenes reveals the real reason Kiriakou is being crucified: He revealed information about CIA officials involved in torturing innocent 9/11 patsy Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) into endorsing a pre-scripted false confession.
Excusing Torture, Again
Menckens GhostWould-be tough guys like former CIA torturer-in-chief José A. Rodriguez Jr. brag that “enhanced interrogation” of terrorists – or doing what the rest of us would call “torturing” – has made Americans safer by eliciting tidbits of information that adv
Free the CIA torture report
• http://www.latimes.comThe Senate Intelligence Committee should make public a 6,000-page report on the CIA's detention and interrogation policies.
U.K. pays Iraqi torture victims millions in compensation
• The GuardianThe Ministry of Defence has paid out £14m in compensation and costs to hundreds of Iraqis who complained that they were illegally detained and tortured by British forces during the five-year occupation of the south-east of the country. Hundreds mo
Bradley Manning in court: Idealist or emotionally unstable?
• AFPWho is the real Bradley Manning: a fragile and unstable being, with suicidal tendencies, or a man of conscience, aware of his actions and determined to make his mark in the world? Defense attorneys and prosecutors drew competing portrayals of
Report finds harsh CIA interrogations ineffective
• Washington PostAfter a contentious closed-door vote, the Senate Intelligence Committee approved a long-awaited report concluding that harsh interrogation measures used by the CIA did not produce significant intelligence breakthroughs, officials said.
What’s the Point of Having Laws Against Torture if They Don’t Apply to the Powerful?
• www.truth-out.orgOne thing brings these four men together. Hassan bin Attash, Sami el-Hajj, Muhammed Khan Tumani and Murat Kurnaz—they are all survivors of the systematic torture program the Bush administration authorized and carried out in locations including Afghan
Torturer Lawsuits: Some Good News
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Bruce Jessen: The Torturer in the Pulpit
• by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)Before becoming a Mormon Bishop, Bruce Jessen was a torturer in the employ of the CIA. Beginning in December 2001, he helped reverse-engineer the US military’s training in order to develop torture protocols used to “break” and “exploit” detainees.
Government wants to jail whistleblower for revealing CIA's 'Prime Torturer'
• http://rt.comThe former CIA analyst who went public with the US government’s torturing of suspected terrorists has suffered a major setback this week in his attempt to avoid imprisonment amid a federal witch-hunt targeting whistleblowers.
Scientists Find Harshest Sound in World: Listen
• ABC NewsScientists studying the brain‘s reaction to sound have determined the piercing screech of a knife against a glass bottle to be the human ear’s worst nightmare. A research team at the University of Newcastle examined brain activity in a group of vo
Bringing Torture Back: Romney Wants to Waterboard Again
• http://www.commondreams.org, by Matthew RothschildSo now Mitt Romney wants to bring waterboarding back?
Will Waterboarding Make a Comeback?
• New York TimesLast September, Mitt Romney’s advisers were so determined to attack President Obama from every direction and to revive long-discredited neo-con theories about interrogation that they actually encouraged the candidate to come out strongly pro-torture
As Italy Sentences 23 CIA Agents in Rendition Case, Obama Refuses to Prosecute Anyone for Torture
• http://www.democracynow.org,Italy’s high court has upheld the sentences of 23 CIA operatives convicted of kidnapping a Muslim cleric under the U.S. program of "extraordinary rendition."
Italy Court Upholds Convictions on CIA Agents for Torture and Rendition Program
• http://news.antiwar.com, by John GlaserThe 23 Americans sentenced were not extradited, but were found guilty of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric in Milan
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