Stephen Soldz
Today’s Washington Post brings further information on the Pentagon’s duplicity at Guantanamo. After Guantanamo officials claimed that the “frequent flyer” psychological torture program was shut down, they continued using it for many months, at least. The “frequent flyer” program involves frequent moves from cell to cell for days or weeks on end, [...]
From correspondents in New York
A ONE-time driver for Osama bin Laden helped the FBI try to track down his boss after being captured in Afghanistan, his former interrogators have testified.
Salim Hamdan led agents to the al-Qaeda chief’s compounds in Kandahar and mapped out his movements among safe houses, training camps and other remote corners [...]
By Jim Loney
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, July 14 (Reuters) - A newly-released document suggests Osama bin Laden’s former driver may have been subjected to 50 days of sleep deprivation at the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba, the prisoner’s defense lawyers said on Monday.
Lawyers for Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni in his late [...]
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 [...]
by Nat Hentoff
If the deciders at the White House, the Justice Department, and the CIA who are responsible for war crimes ever face the equivalent of the Nuremberg trials—or at least an unsparing Congressional investigation—an essential witness against them will be Murat Kurnaz. His book, Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantánamo [...]
John Yoo’s legal opinions and questions about culpability and timing.
By Scott Horton
John C. Yoo likes the limelight, but it’s causing him some grief. Of the half a dozen lawyers who played important roles in a Bush administration decision to legalize the use of highly coercive interrogation techniques, only Yoo has emerged as the public face [...]
To the Editor:
Re “ ’03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations” (front page, April 2):
It’s high time that the authors of the Bush administration’s legal recipe book for torture be brought out of the kitchen and into the courtroom. Yet despite volumes of highly credible evidence of human rights crimes, or even war crimes, a negligent [...]
Nick Juliano
This week’s revelation of another secret Bush administration memo that seemed to eliminate
any boundaries on the treatment of detainees added to the already substantial evidence that US military and intelligence interrogators have abused and perhaps even tortured prisoners rounded up during the “war on terror.”
Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo wrote in 2003 [...]
An innocent man held as a terror detainee for years says he was tortured by Americans. Scott Pelley reports, Sunday,
(CBS) A German resident held by the U.S. for almost five years tells 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley that Americans tortured him in many ways - including hanging him from the ceiling for five days early [...]
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