Torture, Continued: about the United States' participation in torture
Gitmo: America's black hole
A lawyer for prison detainees is struck by how the immoral mistreatment of inmates has become so mundane.
http://snipurl.com/1rthr
Gonzales 'approved' torture note
Alberto Gonzales, the former US attorney-general, reportedly approved the use of waterboarding and other controversial interrogation techniques in a memo in 2005 even though the justice department had publicly declared that torture was "abhorrent".
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/867cd894-72a8-11dc-b7ff-0000779fd2ac.html
From Information Clearing House
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Official: CIA Detention Program Still Active
Randall Mikkelsen, Reuters: "A secret CIA overseas detention program revealed by President George W. Bush last year is still active and has held at least one al-Qaeda militant since then, a US official said on Thursday."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100507R.shtml
Torture, Continued
Dan Froomkin for The Washington Post comments about the United States' participation in torture: "Finding out what our government has been doing in our name, and openly debating our interrogation policies, should have been high on the national agenda since the disclosure of the shockingly inhumane treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib." However, genuine discourse has been stifled, Froomkin writes: "Bush shuts down discussion by declaring that 'we don't torture' - yet he won't even say how he defines the term."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100507S.shtml
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Caught on tape: More deputies accused of brutally beating inmate
Former teacher Paul King says he used to be one of those people who said lock 'em up throw away the key.
http://tinyurl.com/2cu95d
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abu+Ghraib
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mistreatment
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=inmates
A lawyer for prison detainees is struck by how the immoral mistreatment of inmates has become so mundane.
http://snipurl.com/1rthr
Gonzales 'approved' torture note
Alberto Gonzales, the former US attorney-general, reportedly approved the use of waterboarding and other controversial interrogation techniques in a memo in 2005 even though the justice department had publicly declared that torture was "abhorrent".
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/867cd894-72a8-11dc-b7ff-0000779fd2ac.html
From Information Clearing House
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Official: CIA Detention Program Still Active
Randall Mikkelsen, Reuters: "A secret CIA overseas detention program revealed by President George W. Bush last year is still active and has held at least one al-Qaeda militant since then, a US official said on Thursday."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100507R.shtml
Torture, Continued
Dan Froomkin for The Washington Post comments about the United States' participation in torture: "Finding out what our government has been doing in our name, and openly debating our interrogation policies, should have been high on the national agenda since the disclosure of the shockingly inhumane treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib." However, genuine discourse has been stifled, Froomkin writes: "Bush shuts down discussion by declaring that 'we don't torture' - yet he won't even say how he defines the term."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100507S.shtml
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Caught on tape: More deputies accused of brutally beating inmate
Former teacher Paul King says he used to be one of those people who said lock 'em up throw away the key.
http://tinyurl.com/2cu95d
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abu+Ghraib
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mistreatment
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=inmates
rudkla - 6. Okt, 09:18
