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New Charges of Guantanamo Torture
Adam Zagorin, of Time Magazine, reports: "in 2005, CIA officials ordered the destruction of videotapes depicting the harsh interrogation of prisoners in the agency's secret overseas prisons. CIA Director... ...
rudkla - 8. Feb, 23:56
CIA boss: Waterboarding may be illegal
Belleville News-Democrat 02/07/08 D ebate over waterboarding flared Thursday on Capitol Hill, with the CIA director raising doubts about whether it’s currently legal and the attorney general refusing... ...
rudkla - 8. Feb, 11:40
Justice Nominees Hindered by Mukasey Silence on Torture
Keith Perine reports for Congressional Quarterly, "Two Democrats warned Tuesday they will consider blocking Justice Department nominees unless Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey is more forthcoming about... ...
rudkla - 30. Jan, 22:50
Bush Nominates Torture Advocate To Senior Justice Post
The Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques was renominated by the White House on Wednesday to a senior department... ...
rudkla - 25. Jan, 05:59
Lawyers charge the CIA tortured their client in secret prisons
Lawyers for a terrorism suspect from suburban Baltimore who's imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba claim they have evidence that their client "was subjected to a program of state-sanctioned... ...
rudkla - 10. Dez, 22:36
Limits Proposed on CIA Interrogators
The Associated Press reports, "House and Senate negotiators working on an intelligence bill have agreed to limit CIA interrogators to techniques approved by the military, which would effectively bar them... ...
rudkla - 6. Dez, 17:26
Wartime Powers and Mukasey
Peter Grier, reporting for The Christian Science Monitor, writes: "Much of the opposition to retired federal judge Michael Mukasey's nomination to be the next attorney general has centered on his refusal... ...
rudkla - 8. Nov, 22:59
Drown by law
Reason by Jacob Sullum 11/07/07 Federal law defines torture as an act ’specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering.’ It defines ’severe mental pain or suffering’ as ‘the... ...
rudkla - 8. Nov, 18:38
Bush Administration Blocked Waterboarding Critic
A senior Justice Department official, charged with reworking the administration's legal position on torture in 2004 became so concerned about the controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding... ...
rudkla - 5. Nov, 09:33
US Criticized for Use of Torture
Ian Munro reports for The Sydney Morning Herald: "The United States's willingness to resort to harsh interrogation techniques in its so-called war on terror undermined human rights and the international... ...
rudkla - 1. Nov, 18:17
