By PAMELA HESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Iraqi prisoner had valuable intelligence, U.S. special forces believed, and they desperately wanted it. They demanded that expert American military trainers teach them the same types of abusive interrogation techniques that North Korea and Vietnamese forces once used against U.S. prisoners of war.
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The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld
By RON JACOBS
Logic is a process whereby one makes an argument based on a premise. If the premise is false, the process of logic can still prove it, albeit possibly not as easily or convincingly as a true premise. Law follows the process of logic in deciding human guilt or innocence. [...]
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally authorized the use of brutal interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay despite warnings from the FBI that the methods amounted to inhumane treatment, was possibly illegal, and would not produce reliable intelligence, a Department of Justice inspector general testified Tuesday.
Philippe Sands, a British QC, has exposed the ‘decent’ lawyers who made the brutal interrogation of Guantanamo detainees possible
The interrogation room in Guantanamo Bay, Christmas Eve 2002. Detainee 063 – an Al-Qaeda suspect called Mohamed al-Kahtani, who may or may not be that sought-after 20th 9/11 hijacker – is crying in his chair. It is [...]
By Amir Arfa, Press TV, Tehran
“Days later, Mr. Rumsfeld wrote a memorandum distilling their collective guidance into bullet points. Two were underlined:
‘Focus on the Global War on Terror - not simply Iraq. The wider war - the long war.’
‘Link Iraq to Iran. Iran is the concern. If we fail in Iraq or Afghanistan, it [...]
By Jason Leopold
Newly released U. S. government documents, detailing how Bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the Geneva Convention’s protections of war captives, stand in stark contrast to the outrage some of the same officials expressed in the first week of the Iraq War when Iraqi TV interviewed several captured American soldiers.
Then, Defense Secretary [...]
The Central Intelligence Agency knew from the beginning that its secret detention and torturous interrogation tactics probably bordered on illegal from the start, according to new documents identified through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
In a filing yesterday, the CIA said it had identified 7,000 pages of classified memos, emails and other records relating to [...]
Overcoming Denial
By Hannah Tennant-Moore
For the last two years, my mother has flown to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, every few months to meet with her pro bono client, a 32-year-old Algerian man named Abdul Aziz Naji. When she explains to friends and acquaintances how Aziz ended up in Guantánamo, where he has been held for nearly six [...]
From Cageprisoners…
Frank and his son, John, in New York City. Courtesy of Frank Lindh.
In an exclusive interview with Cageprisoners, the father of John Walker Lindh, Frank Lindh, discusses his son’s story. John Lindh, an American Muslim convert, was captured in Afghanistan in December 2001. Northern Alliance and US forces subsequently subjected Lindh to inhumane treatment [...]
By Jason Leopold
On Jan. 17, 2003, Mary Walker, the Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo from the Pentagon’s top attorney. Attached to the classified document was a set of directives drafted [...]
By Milton Bass
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From The Smoking Gun…
Rumsfeld approved use of dogs, clothing removal, hooding
JUNE 23–In a bid to counter charges that military leaders approved the torture of suspected al-Qaeda detainees, the Department of Defense yesterday released classified memos detailing the U.S. government’s evolving interrogation (or “counter-resistance strategies”) policies with regard to prisoners held at the [...]
Guantanamo Bay News
