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Report Outlines Involvement of Medical Workers in Abusive C.I.A. Interrogations - NYTimes.comReport Outlines Medical Workers’ Role in Torture WASHINGTON — Medical personnel were deeply involved in the abusive interrogation of terrorist suspects held overseas by the Central Intelligence Agency , including torture, and their participation was a “gross breach of medical ethics,” a ...
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How many terrorists are really left at Guantanamo, anyway? - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate MagazineEveryone agrees that the order shuttering the camp is the easy part; figuring out what to do with the 245 detainees there is far tougher. Amid all the hooting and hollering you'll be hearing from around the world today, hard questions linger about how many of the detainees left at the camp are ...
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Bipartisan Report on Detainee Abuse Blames Rumsfeld, Other Top Bush OfficialsA bipartisan panel of senators has concluded that former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials bear direct responsibility for the harsh treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and that their decisions led to more serious abuses in Iraq and elsewhere.
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Senate Report Ties Rumsfeld to Abu Ghraib TortureWashington - Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior U.S. officials share much of the blame for detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to portions of a report released on Thursday by the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in IraqI learned in Iraq that the No. 1 reason foreign fighters flocked there to fight were the abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Our policy of torture was directly and swiftly recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda in Iraq. The large majority of suicide bombings in Iraq are still carried out ...
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Guantanamo Justice After Seven YearsSince the Bush administration began transporting men and boys to Guantanamo Bay in January 2002, it has tried to prevent them from presenting their cases before a neutral federal judge. Indeed, the naval base was turned into a prison camp precisely to keep the detainees away from impartial ...
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Torturing DemocracyWhen the publication of the photographs from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq made prisoner abuse an international controversy in April, 2004, both the National Security Archive and Washington Media Associates were already pursuing the story. Award-winning producer Sherry Jones was in the final stages ...
Iain Macadair
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12 months ago
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The Green Light: Attorney Philippe Sands Follows the Bush Administration Torture TrailA new exposé in Vanity Fair by British attorney Philippe Sands reveals new details about how attorney John Yoo and other high-ranking administration lawyers helped design and implement the interrogation policies seen at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and secret CIA prisons. According to Vanity Fair, ...
Iain Macadair
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CIA Officers Could Face Charges in UK Probe of Gitmo Torture Claims"In Britain, senior CIA officers could face prosecution in the case of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who says he was tortured in US custody. The British Attorney General is considering whether to bring charges against Americans involved in the rendition and alleged torture of British resident Binyam ...
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The Dark Side: Jane Mayer on the Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American IdealsWe spend the hour with New Yorker magazine investigative journalist Jane Mayer about her new book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. In the book, Mayer reveals a secret report by the International Red Cross warned the Bush ...
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