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 Los Angeles teacher charged with molesting 23 children
1-31-2012
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The Raw Story website
Authorities took 61-year-old Mark Berndt into custody Monday for allegedly tying up the children, putting large cockroaches on their face and reportedly feeding them his semen.
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Laura Cross
News A Documentary Makes the Case Against Torture by Interviewing the Tortured
01-26-2012
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www.theatlantic.com
America wants to forget the abuses of Guantanamo and the like, but Beneath the Blindfold shows that the consequences of brutal interrogations linger for a long time.
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News British Find That Detainee Was Tortured As Part Of American Interrogation . . .
01-13-2012
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www.jonathanturley.org
While the Obama Administration continues to block any independent investigation in this country or by other countries, Britain has angered Obama officials by confirming that a suspect was tortured as part of his interrogation by the United State in M
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News Rights Groups Call for the Arrest of George W. Bush for Torture as He Arrives in Canada
10-22-2011
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As former US President George W. Bush arrives in Canada today to address a regional economic summit, where attendees will pay $599 a head to hear him and former President Bill Clinton as featured speakers, human right groups opposed to Bush’s visit,
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War Onyou
News Judge Refuses to Sanction CIA for Destroying Torture Tapes
10-07-2011
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www.wired.com
A federal judge won’t hold the CIA in contempt for destroying videotapes of detainee interrogations that included the use of a torture technique known as waterboarding, ruling instead Wednesday that the spy agency merely committed “transgressions” fo
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News Ten Years Later: Will We Ever Hold Torturers Accountable?
09-13-2011
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www.truth-out.org
"There is no longer any doubt as to whether the [Bush] administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."
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News Contract With Atrocity: Flying With the Torture Profiteers
09-01-2011
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Chris-Floyd.com
Not only did they willingly transport men who had been tormented, tied up, drugged and humiliated, they referred to the victims by the truly Orwellian term, "invitees." The Guardian reports:
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News Five Tasers, Two Seconds: That’s Gonna Hurt, Bro
07-31-2011
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Wired
If you’re in a position to be tased, you’ve typically got one (not very impressive) advantage: the police officer or rent-a-cop trying to send 20,000 volts through your body has to be pretty close to you. But your advantage is about to disappear in a
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News Witness saw teen beaten in Syrian jail
07-08-2011
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AP
Inside a filthy detention center in Damascus, 9 interrogators repeatedly bludgeoned a skinny teenager whose hands were bound and who bore a bullet wound on the left side of his chest. They struck his head, back, feet and genitals until he was left on
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News L.A. Jail Uses 'Assault Intervention Device' on Inmates
06-23-2011
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news.blogs.cnn.com via RTR.ORG post
"Deputies have tested the device, which is controlled by a jail officer using a joystick" (oh TELL me they didn't write that line? How long before someone is tied up in front of that thing... - Ed)
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News Supreme Court: Ashcroft not liable in detention of American Muslim post-9/11
05-31-2011
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Washington Post
Former attorney general John D. Ashcroft cannot be sued personally for allegedly misusing his power to detain an American Muslim in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, crackdown on suspected terrorists, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday.
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News Oath Keepers Speaks Out Against Bradley Manning's Treatment
05-24-2011
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Slate
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and director of Oath Keepers. "He hasn't been convicted of anything!" Rhodes said of Manning. "Look, you shouldn't be punished until you're convicted. It's ridiculous to put him in isolation. And what's happening is happen
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News Libertarianism and Torture - by Wendy McElroy
05-10-2011
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Wendy McElroy
The killing of Osama bin Laden has emboldened advocates of torture as an anti-terrorism technique because the operation was supposedly facilitated by intelligence gathered from “enhanced interrogation.”
From this, some advocates conclude that the
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News War Criminals Pushing The Idea That Torture Is Vital To Our Security
05-09-2011
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washingtonsblog.com
Defenders of the Bush administration’s interrogation policies have claimed vindication from reports that bin Laden was tracked down in small part due to information received from brutalized detainees some six to eight years ago.
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News Paul Craig Roberts: Osama bin Laden's Useful Death
05-03-2011
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Rense.com
How many Americans will notice that the first paragraph of the "report" justifies CIA prisons and torture? Without secret prisons and torture "the terror mastermind" would still be running free, despite having died from renal failure in 2001.
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News No, Bin Laden's Death Does Not Justify Torture
05-02-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
There's a new meme widely circulating today claiming that torture was okay after all, because it helped us locate and kill Osama Bin Laden.
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News Secret Case Against Detainee Crumbles
04-26-2011
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NY Times
The secret document described Prisoner 269, Mohammed el-Gharani, as the very incarnation of a terrorist threat: “an al Qaeda suicide operative” with links to a London cell and ties to senior plotters of international havoc. But there was more to the
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News Some Gitmo prisoners held without any evidence, WikiLeaks reveals
04-26-2011
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AFP
The United States has botched the handling of inmates at Guantanamo, holding men for years without reliable evidence while releasing others who posed a grave threat, according to leaked secret files.
The trove of more than 700 classified documents
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News The Guantánamo Papers
04-25-2011
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NY Times Op Ed
The internal documents from the prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, published in The Times on Monday were a chilling reminder of the legal and moral disaster that President George W. Bush created there. They describe the chaos, lawlessness and incompeten
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News Bradley Manning: The 2011 TIME Man of the year
04-14-2011
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www.time.com/time
Bradley Manning is the man who is being tortured in prison without ever being to trail for exposing the government and their WICKEDNESS. It is par for the course to see the zombies have placed actor Rain at the top of their list. Makes me Sick.
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News Life on the List
04-13-2011
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Steve Yoder
You could say it started with three small-town Minnesota boys riding their bikes to a convenience store on an October night in 1989. As they were returning home on a dark stretch of road, a man stepped out of the darkness holding a gun. He told them
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Headlines: Life on the List -- Bradley Manning: The 2011 TIME Man of the year -- The Guantánamo Papers -- Some Gitmo prisoners held without any evidence, WikiLeaks reveals -- Secret Case Against Detainee Crumbles -- No, Bin Laden's Death Does Not Justify Torture -- Paul Craig Roberts: Osama bin Laden's Useful Death -- War Criminals Pushing The Idea That Torture Is Vital To Our Security -- Libertarianism and Torture - by Wendy McElroy -- Oath Keepers Speaks Out Against Bradley Manning's Treatment -- Supreme Court: Ashcroft not liable in detention of American Muslim post-9/11 -- L.A. Jail Uses 'Assault Intervention Device' on Inmates -- Witness saw teen beaten in Syrian jail -- Five Tasers, Two Seconds: That’s Gonna Hurt, Bro -- Contract With Atrocity: Flying With the Torture Profiteers -- Ten Years Later: Will We Ever Hold Torturers Accountable? -- Judge Refuses to Sanction CIA for Destroying Torture Tapes -- Rights Groups Call for the Arrest of George W. Bush for Torture as He Arrives in Canada -- British Find That Detainee Was Tortured As Part Of American Interrogation . . . -- Sinai Torture Camps -- A Documentary Makes the Case Against Torture by Interviewing the Tortured -- Los Angeles teacher charged with molesting 23 children
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