Prisoner Abuse

                   

Move to torture started at the top

thenewstribune.com     22-Jun-2008   3 related          

If there was any lingering doubt that torture was a de facto policy in the U.S. government’s war on terror, the revelations of the past week have erased it. An investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee, coupled with...                    

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nbc4.tv: In this April 24, 2007, file photo, a Joint Task Force guard at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, talks with a detainee who has had his identity obscured per military review restrictions. nbc4.tv

General Accuses WH of War Crimes

military.com     20-Jun-2008   63 related          

WASHINGTON - The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who's now retired, came in a new report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using beatings,...                    

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legitgov.org: A U.S. serviceman with his dog watches a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003. legitgov.org

Former detainee blames trauma on US captors

iht.com     18-Jun-2008   214 related          

Four years after his release from Abu Ghraib, Ali al-Qaisi has nightmares and insomnia he blames on injuries — physical and psychological — suffered at the hands of his American captors. The Iraqi was among 11 former prisoners...                    

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What should be an exhibit in a war crimes tribunal prosecution against the Bush Cabal

weazlsrevenge.blogspot.com     18-Jun-2008   285 related          

A timeline to Bush government torture Newly public evidence sheds greater light on Bush officials' efforts to develop brutal interrogation techniques for the war on terror. David Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's counsel;...                    

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Guantanamo: America's prison for terrorists often held the wrong men (McClatchy Newspapers)

yahoo.com     18-Jun-2008   170 related          

By Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapers Wed Jun 18, 5:06 PM ET (This is the first part of the five-part Guantanamo: Beyond the Law series by McClatchy Newspapers . LITTLE INTELLIGENCE VALUE The McClatchy investigation found that...                    

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A Timeline To Bush Government Torture

trueblueliberal.com     18-Jun-2008   40 related          

From Salon By Mark Benjamin For years now, the Bush White House has claimed that the United States does not conduct torture. Prisoner abuse at places like Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, it has asserted, was an aberration — the work...                    

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Why Habeas Corpus Protections Matter [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]

scienceblogs.com     18-Jun-2008   16 related          

Over the last few days since the Supreme Court ruled that detainees at Gitmo had the right to challenge their detention in court, I've heard lots of arguments against it. The most common - and the most ignorant - goes along the...                    

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Detainee torture: further proof of US government criminality

wsws.org     18-Jun-2008   24 related          

By David Walsh 18 June 2008 A damning new study of US treatment of detainees in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, along with Senate hearings into the origins of the torture inflicted on American-held prisoners, further...                    

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"Disgrace"

theatlantic.com     17-Jun-2008          

Pete Wehner: What moral universe do Justices Kennedy, Breyer, Ginsburg, Stephens, and Souter inhabit when they are willing to manufacture constitutional rights for unlawful enemy combatants who want to slit the throats and...                    

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Torture Goes Up To the Top

blog-city.com     17-Jun-2008   20 related          

It looks like that the "few rotten apples" involved in the abuse of prisoners in this War OF Terror is correct. Only they aren't at the bottom of the barrel: A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials b                    

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