NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ruled in New York that the government must either produce memos on waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods used by the CIA or explain why they should be kept secret.
U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein says the memos are “clearly responsive” to a lawsuit filed in 2003 [...]
Five years after her mysterious disappearance in Karachi, the FBI has finally conceded that an MIT-trained Pakistani neuroscientist is alive and is in US custody in Afghanistan.
The fate of her three young, American-born children is still unknown.
The U.S. military base on the island of Diego Garcia in the
Indian Ocean.
By ADAM ZAGORIN
Almost two years have passed since President George W. Bush publicly acknowledged the existence of a CIA program in which agency-leased aircraft fly terror suspects between secret prisons and interrogation sites around the world. “This program has helped us to [...]
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.
I’m speechless. Simply without words to express the horror I feel as I read this article. No sight in one eye, the other is going, He grew up in a 6×8 cell alone. He’d just lost his father before he was taken… what do they expect him to do or say? His health is terrible [...]
Testimony to Congress Comes as Report Released About Abuses Witnessed by FBI
By JASON RYAN
Murat Kurnaz told members of Congress today he was subjected to “water treatment,” electric shocks and other abuse during the almost five years he spent in U.S. custody, putting a face to the Justice Department’s inspector general report released today, detailing abuses [...]
By Robyn Blumner
Bystander guilt. That is what FBI and Justice Department officials have on their conscience and what John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, and FBI Director Robert Mueller should be haunted by every day. The long-awaited report from the Justice Department inspector general on abusive detainee interrogations says that the FBI should be credited [...]
AN FBI agent watched Australian detainee Mamdouh Habib repeatedly vomit during a marathon interrogation session at Guantanamo Bay in 2004, according to a long-awaited US Justice Department report released today.
The agent said Mr Habib, a former Sydney taxi driver held at the US military prison at Guantanamo for more than two years, endured two 15-hour [...]
MESA, Ariz. — The Department of Defense is investigating allegations of detainee abuse and retaliation against soldiers of the 56th Military Police Company in Mesa who blew the whistle.
Maj. Richard VanBuskirk, Staff Sgt. Gilberto Mendoza
The alleged abuse took place in and around military transports. They were called “con-air” flights because the cargo consisted of detainees, [...]
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON ? F. B. I. agents complained repeatedly, beginning in 2002, about the harsh interrogation tactics that military and C. I. A. interrogators were using in questioning terrorism suspects, like making them do dog tricks and parade in the nude in front of female soldiers, but their complaints appear to [...]
“Pre-flight cocktails” of dangerous psychotropic drugs were forcefully given to foreign detainees by federal employees during trips back to home countries, The Post’s Amy Goldstein and Dana Priest report today in the last installment of the four-part series into medical treatment provided to immigrants by the federal government.
The drugging of detainees without a medical justification [...]
William Fisher
Inter Press Service
‘Rendition,’ torture allegations are not going away
NEW YORK: With human rights groups demanding the release of a report on a long-running investigation of the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the unlawful interrogations of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, new torture claims have been leveled at two [...]
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 [...]
By Miral Sattar
2006
I had been following Uzair Paracha’s trial closely in the news. I, like many others, was confident the jury would announce a ‘not guilty’ verdict.
Uzair Paracha, 26, is a Pakistani native and a graduate from the elite business school IBA, Institute of Business Administration. He is a legal immigrant who grew up in [...]
Americans are paying for it, literally, with their tax dollars, and symbolically, diplomatically and politically, too, since now, human-rights-abusing governments around the world are simply ignoring their calls for justice against whomever they may apply their heavy-handed crackdowns. And someday, somewhere, if the news ever emerges that American civilians or military personnel have been tortured [...]
By LARA JAKES JORDAN Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday recalled warning the Justice Department and the Pentagon that some U. S. interrogation methods used against terrorists might be inappropriate, if not illegal.
Mueller’s comments came under pointed questioning by House Democrats demanding to know if the FBI tried to stop interrogations [...]
Human Right Groups Charge Documents Reveal CIA Stonewalled Congressional Oversight Committees; CIA Says Many Documents too Sensitive to Release
NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, DC- April 23 - The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must stop stonewalling congressional oversight committees and release vital documents related to the program of secret detentions, renditions, and torture, three prominent human rights [...]
By Mario de Queiroz
Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz (UK Guardian, 04-23-2008)
Farrakhan calls for delegation to be sent to Guantanamo (FCN, 05-25-2005)
A brief history of the U.S. military presence in Guantanamo Bay Cuba (HistoryofCuba.com)
LISBON, Portugal (IPS/GIN) - A British lawyer has warned that the Portuguese government may face [...]
By Aditya Rajagopalan
News Staff Writer
For years, Americans have responded in outrage when hearing of the jailing of monks, the incessant scourge of Tibetan cities, or the reprehensible human rights violations persisting in Tibet. And with the recent uprisings that have proliferated across Tibet, Americans have rightfully sought to “free Tibet,”; many have even called [...]
by Malcolm Shore - from Dennis Loo
Who gives a shit if there is a naked woman reflected in Dick Cheney’s sunglasses?
There is a river of blood on his hands. And now, those red-drenched paws have been held up to the light for the whole world to see, thanks to a report that broke last week [...]
An innocent man held as a terror detainee for years tells Scott Pelley how Americans tortured him in Afghanistan and then at Guantanamo Bay;
by Daniel Johnson
Visiting Pakistan when he was just 19 years old, Murat Kurnaz was akin to a UC Irvine student studying abroad, as he came to the country to learn about the [...]
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 [...]
By WILLIAM GLABERSON and NEIL A. LEWIS
Published: April 4, 2008
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union and one of the country’s leading lawyers’ groups, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said Thursday that they had assembled experienced teams of lawyers to defend some of the most notorious detainees at Guantánamo, [...]
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