Tag: torture
member name: Walker Bennett, SF Author
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December 20, 2008 10:27 AM EST --
'Our NKVD ( Law Enforcement, Intelligence and CounterIntelligence) had transformed into the Coven of Corrupt Executioners...'
Nicholai Bucharin, the Testament dictated verbally . . .
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February 28, 2009 03:33 PM EST --
Barbara Ehrenreich comments on working in America My Role in the Torture of Binyam Mohamed
I like to think that some of the things I write cause discomfort in those readers who deserve to feel it. Ideally, . . .
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May 13, 2009 01:05 PM EDT --
The cover-up of Bush-era crimes is taking a shocking but not unexpected turn. A fateful move has been made and it is certain to backfire.
A prisoner who was horribly tortured in 2002 until he agreed . . .
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December 21, 2009 12:37 PM EST --
the Supreme Court acquiesced to the president's fervent request and, in a one-line ruling, let stand a lower court decision that declared torture an ordinary, expected consequence of military detention, . . .
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February 12, 2009 11:32 AM EST --
Last week, President Obama's new Attorney-General, Eric H. Holder, assured senior Republican senators who were withholding their support for his nomination that he is not likely to prosecute CIA . . .
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March 14, 2009 03:47 PM EDT --
Former US President George W. Bush could possibly stand trial at the international Criminal Court in The Hague, says an ex-UN prosecutor.
David Crane, an international law professor . . .
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June 02, 2009 08:14 AM EDT --
Cheney: Execute Terrorists If Cuba Prison Must Close
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that the only alternative to holding some suspected terrorists indefinitely would be to execute . . .
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March 03, 2009 02:12 PM EST --
The CIA destroyed 92 videotapes--far more than previously known--to prevent disclosure of evidence revealing how the agency's interrogators subjected "war on terror" detainees to waterboarding . . .
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May 28, 2009 10:10 AM EDT --
U.S. Military Investigator Confirms Women and Children Were Raped At Abu Ghraib
After years of corporate media whitewashing Abu Ghraib abuse in the context of college fraternity-style humiliation, . . .
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June 26, 2009 03:51 PM EDT --
Unfortunately, in Spain. It's a start.
I reported several months ago that almost the entire Bush administration have been indicted for crimes against humanity by Spain. The Israelis tried to short . . .
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December 13, 2009 12:39 PM EST --
Ottawa won't release Afghan documents
Harper government says it will not comply with Opposition motion passed by Parliament, setting stage for legal battle
OTTAWA – Prime Minister . . .
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May 27, 2009 02:23 PM EDT --
The 13 Bush Officials Who Made Torture Possible
Between 9/11 and the end of 2002, the Torture 13 decided to torture, then reverse-engineered the techniques,and then crafted the legal cover. Here's . . .
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July 24, 2009 12:53 PM EDT --
If the Taliban decide Bergdahl has information they want, they can waterboard him until he talks. They can compress his body and cover him with insects, they can rob him of sleep and deny him food, they . . .
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April 10, 2009 12:22 PM EDT --
I wrote about this last month and somebody laughed "Spain?"...
Keep in mind that the U.S. supported Spain when they went after Pinochet.
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Indictment of Bush Officials May Come . . .
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May 14, 2009 01:53 PM EDT --
by Ed Martin
I can’t take credit for an exclusive scoop for uncovering and exposing a US government document that says that Jay Bybee and John Yoo must go to jail for their torture memos. . . .
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June 03, 2009 03:59 PM EDT --
Obama's Support For The New Graham-Lieberman Secrecy Law
The Obama White House is supporting a new bill (sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham & Joe Lieberman) whose sole purpose is allowing . . .
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June 15, 2009 10:54 AM EDT --
"Cheney still in crosshairs of Senate Intelligence probe" –
Events will force Obama to act and investigate and prosecute Cheney and the war criminals. It isn't only the US that is concerned . . .
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June 16, 2009 03:55 PM EDT --
Amnesty International: Obama must prosecute Bush-era torture enablers
Larry Cox is the executive director of Amnesty International USA: With Dick Cheney and the infamous torture memos making headlines, . . .
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August 04, 2009 05:46 PM EDT --
A Day of Reckoning for Bush's 'Torture' Lawyers
By Ronald Sokol
Under even the most dire conditions, there is a gold standard when it comes to applying the rule of law. It was set 65 years . . .
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August 24, 2009 02:53 PM EDT --
Holder to Appoint Prosecutor to Investigate CIA Abuse Allegations
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators . . .
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