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The group's actions to keep psychologists involved in the interrogation program coincided closely with efforts by senior Bush administration officials to salvage the program after the public disclosure of prisoner abuse by American military
After a 10-year legal battle, U.S. district judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled last Friday that the U.S. government must release more than 2,000 photographs showing abuse and torture of people detained by the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"There are places throughout the world where CIA has worked with other intelligence services and has been able to bring people into custody and engage in the debriefings of these individuals…through our liaison partners, and
[Obama] did allow his Justice Department to investigate the C.I.A.'s destruction of videotapes of torture sessions and those who may have gone beyond the torture techniques authorized by President George W. Bush. But
They were kicked in the genitals while helpless and bound, put in 'kennels for humans', and they heard the bloodcurdling screams of other helpless victims while they thought they would never see the light of day again.
Abby interviews CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou in his home.
This goes beyond shocking. Sure, in some warped romantic spy-novel sort of way, we've come to expect such places for foreign terrorists to be tortured and held away from prying eyes, but not here, not on American soil, not in Chicago.
The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or lawyers while locked inside what attorneys say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site. The facility, a nond
Milwaukee, WI -- In August of 2013 former detective Rodolfo Gomez savagely beat Deron Love during an interrogation. He was chained to the wall.
A Chicago detective who led one of the most shocking acts of torture ever conducted at Guantánamo was responsible for implementing a similar, years-long regime of brutality to elicit murder confessions from minority Americans.
"Hypocritical" is how CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou describes his arrest and imprisonment for exposing the spy agency's use of torture while those who actually committed the heinous acts go unpunished.
"The biggest coincidence ever" or "part of the pattern of the infiltration of defense teams"
From the torture report to videos from Guantánamo to pictures from Abu Ghraib, the government says we can't see because bad men might use it against us
A federal judge is demanding that the government explain, photo-by-photo, why it can't release hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of pictures showing detainee abuse by U.S. forces at military prison sites in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The latest ISIS atrocity – releasing a video of a captured Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive – prompted substantial discussion yesterday about this particular form of savagery.
You cannot be Christian and support torture.
Reagan when he signed the Convention Against Torture: "Ratification of the Convention by the United States, will clearly express United States opposition to torture, an abhorrent practice unfortunately prevalent in the world today."
It's All-American
It's All-American
The nation cannot move forward in any meaningful way without coming to terms, legally and morally, with the abhorrent acts that were authorized, given a false patina of legality, and committed by American men and women from the highest levels of gove
Ray McGovern: My Take
Rather than questioning Sony's wisdom in producing a film that jokes about something as serious as assassinating a nation's leader, Obama upbraided Sony's producers for the decision to pull the movie from theaters. "I wish they had spoken to
NBC News yesterday called her a "key apologist" for the CIA's torture program. A follow-up New Yorker article dubbed her "The Unidentified Queen of Torture" and in part "the model for the lead character in 'Zero Dark Thirty.'" Yet i
Should Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & CIA Officials Be Tried for Torture?
NBC News yesterday called her a "key apologist" for the CIA's torture program. A follow-up New Yorker article dubbed her "The Unidentified Queen of Torture" and in part "the model for the lead character in 'Zero Dark Thirty.'" Yet i
Journalist Glenn Greenwald said Dick Cheney is able to brag about the success of torture on weekend news shows because the Obama administration has decided to shield torturers rather than prosecute them.
Jon Stewart spent the first segment of tonight's Daily Show diving into a former vice president's Meet the Press appearance and asking, "Is Dick Cheney a righteous warrior or a psychopath?"
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.
