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Die Suche nach »CIA torture« hat 664 Resultate geliefert. Angezeigt werden die Resultate von 141 bis 150.



Bush-era memos claim to vindicate Abu Ghraib soldiers?
CNN 04/30/09 Interrogati on tactics such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation and forced nudity did not violate laws against torture when there was no intent to cause severe pain, according to the Bush-era... ...
Leahy invites Bybee to testify on torture memos
Washington Post 04/29/09 Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy today invited federal judge Jay S. Bybee to testify about his role in preparing two Justice Department memos that allowed interrogators... ...
Democrats Urge Torture Probe by Special Counsel
Larry Margasak, The Associated Press: "Congressional Democrats turned up the pressure on the Obama administration Tuesday to start a criminal investigation by a special counsel into harsh interrogations... ...
Appeals panel denies “state secrets” privilege
New Orleans Times-Picayune 04/28/09 Five men who claim to have been kidnapped and tortured at the direction of CIA agents are entitled to their day in court to expose alleged U.S. government abuse of... ...
CIA Torture Began In Afghanistan 8 Months Before DOJ Approval
I don't know about you, but from my reading of this story, a number of the highest-ranking officials in the Bush administration need hauling up before the courts as soon as possible http://www.commo ndreams.org/view/2009/04/2 8-2... ...
We Are All Torturers in America
By Naomi Wolf Not only do Congressional Democrats have blood on their hands - but so do we, the American people. And CIA agents may be about to be sacrificed to assuage their - and our - actual and associative... ...
The Bush White House’s appalling and evil legacy
AlterNet by Frank Rich 04/27/09 We’ve learned much, much more about America and torture in the past five years. But as Mark Danner recently wrote in The New York Review of Books, for all the revelations,... ...
The case for prosecuting Bush
AntiWar.Com by David R. Henderson 04/28/09 I think we can have a reasonable discussion about whether CIA officials who were ‘just following orders’ should be held accountable for law-breaking. But what... ...
Torture Used to Link Saddam With 9/11
Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: "It turns out that high Bush officials put heavy pressure on Pentagon interrogators to get Mohammed and Zubaydah to reveal a link between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 hijackers,... ...
How Torture Worked to Sell the Iraq War
Steve Weissman, Truthout: "If not the Justice Department lawyers, who gave the earlier go-ahead? The Senate report puts the onus directly on the decider-in-chief, President George W. Bush. He issued a... ...