Newly Released Detainee Statements Provide More Evidence Of CIA Torture Program
The CIA today released still-highly redacted documents in which Guantánamo Bay prisoners describe abuse and torture they suffered in CIA custody.
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/39868prs20090615.html
CIA Mistaken on 'High-Value' Detainee, Document Shows
An al-Qaeda associate captured by the CIA and subjected to harsh interrogation techniques said his jailers later told him they had mistakenly thought he was the No. 3 man in the organization's hierarchy and a partner of Osama bin Laden, according to newly released excerpts from a 2007 hearing.
http://snipurl.com/k96hr
From Information Clearing House
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America and Torture Have a Long and Painful History
Ben Ehrenreich, The Los Angeles Times: "Perhaps we protest too much. Torture, after all, is a venerable American tradition. We were waterboarding captives in one of our earliest wars of occupation, the Philippine-American War, which cost as many as 1 million civilian lives. In 1902, Teddy Roosevelt himself wrote with laconic praise of 'the old Filipino method.'"
http://www.truthout.org/061909T?n
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/39868prs20090615.html
CIA Mistaken on 'High-Value' Detainee, Document Shows
An al-Qaeda associate captured by the CIA and subjected to harsh interrogation techniques said his jailers later told him they had mistakenly thought he was the No. 3 man in the organization's hierarchy and a partner of Osama bin Laden, according to newly released excerpts from a 2007 hearing.
http://snipurl.com/k96hr
From Information Clearing House
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America and Torture Have a Long and Painful History
Ben Ehrenreich, The Los Angeles Times: "Perhaps we protest too much. Torture, after all, is a venerable American tradition. We were waterboarding captives in one of our earliest wars of occupation, the Philippine-American War, which cost as many as 1 million civilian lives. In 1902, Teddy Roosevelt himself wrote with laconic praise of 'the old Filipino method.'"
http://www.truthout.org/061909T?n
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
rudkla - 17. Jun, 10:27