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Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 36 days ago
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, July 15 --Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the alleged al-Qaeda driver who faces an historic military trial next week, testified Tuesday that a female interrogator elicited information from him using sexually suggestive behavior that was offensive to him. ... Source: www.foxnews.com --- 26 days ago
The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution if they believed 'in good faith' that harsh techniques used to break the will of prisoners, including waterboarding, would not cause 'prolonged mental harm.' ... Source: www.salon.com --- 27 days ago
The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed "in good faith" that harsh techniques used to break prisoners' will would not cause "prolonged mental harm." That heavily censored memo, r... ... Source: jurist.law.pitt.edu --- 23 days ago
... Source: www.fwicki.com --- 32 days ago
WASHINGTON - Former attorney general John Ashcroft yesterday disavowed the now-defunct legal reasoning used to justify harshly questioning terrorism suspects but defended White House officials who pressured him to approve terror surveillance programs ... ... Source: www.fwicki.com --- 24 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed "in good faith" that harsh techniques used to break prisoners' will would not ... ... Source: www.fwicki.com --- 24 days ago
WASHINGTON ? The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed "in good faith" that harsh techniques used to break prisoners' will would not cause ... ... Source: www.propeller.com --- 37 days ago
The "enhanced Interrogation Tactics, " used in Guantanamo under orders from the Pentagon and the White House have been the subject of numerous hearings on Capitol Hill recently. Channel: Do No Evil Tags: Rumsfeld Torture FBI hearings lessons ... Source: dir.salon.com --- 35 days ago
A Senate committee finds that there are major holes in Pentagon officials' stories about the decision to use certain Interrogation Tactics at Guantánamo. ... Source: www.salon.com --- 50 days ago
New evidence shows that despite warnings from across the military, former Gen. Richard Myers shut down legal scrutiny of brutal Interrogation Tactics. ... Source: www.latimes.com --- 21 days ago
The team wants allegations that the Yemeni confessed to a Bin Laden loyalty oath excluded, saying he had been coerced. Hoping to persuade a military judge to exclude a federal agent's key testimony in the trial of terrorism suspect Salim Ahmed Hamdan, defense lawyers Wednesday attempted to prove that coercive Interrogation Tactics were used on their client. ... Source: www.slate.com --- 26 days ago
The recent release of Jane Mayer's book The Dark Side revealed that a secret report by the International Committee of the Red Cross determined "categorically" that the CIA used torture, as defined by American and international law, in questioning al-Qaida suspect Abu Zubaydah. The question of criminal liability for Bush-administration officials has since been in the news. It's also getting play because retired Gen. Antonio Taguba, lead Army investigator of the prison abuses at Abu Ghraib, wrote in a recent report, "There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes." (Update: And today, the ACLU released three new memos from the Department of Justice and the CIA, which for the first time show DoJ explicitly authorizing "enhanced" Interrogation Tactics for use on specific detainees. One of the memos states, in this context, that "Interrogation techniques, including the waterboard, do not violate the Torture Statute.") [ more ... ] ...
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 50 days ago
The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire Interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of "coercive management techniques" for possible use on prisoners, including "sleep deprivation," "prolonged constraint," and "exposure." What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners. The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist Interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and by the Central Intelligence Agency. Some methods were used against a small number of prisoners at Guantánamo before 2005, when Congress banned the use of coercion by the military. The C.I.A. is still authorized by President Bush to use a number of secret "alternative" Interrogation methods. Several Guantánamo documents, including the chart outlining coercive methods, were made public at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing June 17 that examined how such Tactics came to be employed. But committee investigators were not aware of the chart's source in the half-century-old journal article, a connection pointed out to The New York Times by an independent expert on interro ... Source: www.care2.com --- 8 hours ago
A picture paints a thousand words. To know this is true only requires a single phrase: Abu Ghraib . The images released to the public shocked the world, and provided irrefutable evidence of the unconscionable Interrogation Tactics employed by U.S military personnel. Everyday, grassroots activists around the world are documenting pressing human rights abuses not unsimilar to the abuse in Abu Ghraib. Even in the face of unsurmountable oppression and censorship, human rights defenders press on to help create the change they want to see. WITNESS is building a community of support for these activists on the Hub. As they work on the frontlines of today's most pressing human rights abuses, the Hub is where their voices can be heard and issues can be linked to unearth global trends in the struggle for human rights. Pledge to become a part of the growing movement of citizen journalists, activists, lobbyists and video advocacy pioneers whose voices are often locked out of mainstream media. Take Action ... Source: thinkprogress.org --- 34 days ago
In March 2002, detainee Abu Zubaydah, described as a “first test subject for harsh Interrogation techniques,” underwent waterboarding while in U.S. custody. In a hearing today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) noted that Zubaydah’s Interrogation occurred months before the August 2002 “Bybee memo” approved the Interrogation Tactics. Salon reports: But during questioning, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., [...] ... Source: www.kentucky.com --- 49 days ago
A Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday said France's legal framework for prosecuting terror suspects is too broad, resulting in too many arrests based on minimal evidence and too many convictions based on circumstantial evidence. The U.S.-based group said France's pre-emptive approach to fighting terror and lack of appropriate safeguards within the criminal justice system has put the country "on the wrong side of human rights law." French officials' Interrogation Tactics, the use of foreign intelligence and suspects' limited access to legal counsel deepen the problem, the report said. "French counterterrorism laws and procedures undermine the right of those facing charges of terrorism to a fair trial," the 84-page report said. French officials were quick to defend their system. ... Source: celltour.amnesty.org --- 48 days ago
The New York Times today released a story explaining the results of a Senate Arms Services Committee hearing on Interrogation Tactics used at Guantanamo Bay. The hearing revealed the sad irony that Interrogation Tactics used by the CIA against detainees at Guantanamo Bay were ripped straight out of a playbook used by Communist captors against [...] ... Source: pacificfreepress.com --- 36 days ago
Ten Lessons from Recent Torture Hearings by ANP Lawyers who approved enhanced Interrogation Tactics are under increasing pressure to... ... Find more results for Interrogation Tactics on RSSMicro.com |
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AP - The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed "in good faith" that harsh techniques used to break prisoners' will would not cause "prolonged mental harm." ...
(updated below) Historians writing about the Bush era were given a great gift yesterday -- an iconic headline that explains so much of what has happened in this country over the last seven years: Their rationale for doing that is that it prevents the Republicans from depicting them as "weak," because nothing exudes strength like bowing. Here's more evidence of the brilliance of the Democratic strategy to show how "strong" and "tough" they are by bowing to Bush and all of his demands, from this morning's New York Times article by Eric Lichtblau: WASHINGTON â The Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a major expansion of the government's surveillance powers , handing President Bush one more victory in a series of hard-fought clashes with Democrats over national security issues. . . . Even as his political stature has waned, Mr. Bush has managed to maintain his dominance on national security issues in a Democratic-led Congress . He has beat back efforts to cut troops and financing in Iraq, and he has won important victories on issues like Interrogation Tactics and military tribunals in the fight against terrorism. . . . Debate over the surveillance law was the one area where Democrats had held firm in opposition. . . . .But in the end Mr. Bush won out , as administration officials helped forge a deal between Republican and Democratic leaders that included almost all the major elements the White House wanted . The measure gi ...