World-News

The leading Republican on the US House of Representatives intelligence committee has defied the Bush administration and pledged to investigate the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes.

http://snipurl.com/1vfef



House speaker undermines Democrats' fight against torture

Few serious observers of Congress would deny that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been a disappointing leader for House Democrats. But now she appears to be something more troubling: a serious hindrance to the fight against the use of crude and objectionable torture techniques.

http://snipurl.com/1vfeg



Scott Horton: The President's Coming-Out Party

The torture system involves the operations division of the CIA on the implementation side. They rely heavily on contractors, it seems, in torturing people.

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/12/hbc-90001917


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=videotapes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors