Torture

Source: www.cnn.com --- 1 day ago
The Bush administration told the CIA in 2002 that its interrogators working abroad would not violate U.S. prohibitions against Torture unless they "have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering," according to a previously secret Justice Department memo released Thursday. ...

Source: www.cnn.com --- 1 day ago
The Bush administration told the CIA in 2002 that its interrogators working abroad would not violate U.S. prohibitions against Torture unless they "have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering," according to a previously secret Justice Department memo released Thursday. ...

Source: abclocal.go.com --- 16 hours ago
A man convicted in the rape and Torture of a grad student was sentenced Thursday. ...

Source: blogs.usatoday.com --- 10 hours ago
In a memo sent to the CIA, the Justice Department in 2002 said interrogators would be safe from anti-Torture prosecutions if they believed in good faith that their actions would not cause "prolonged mental harm." The comments were made in... ...

Source: www.latimes.com --- 4 hours ago
Interrogators would be on safe ground if they had an 'honest belief' that suspects would suffer no 'prolonged mental harm,' the Justice Department told the CIA. 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." ...

Source: www.nydailynews.com --- 15 hours ago
Calling the sex-Torture of a Columbia student an "extraordinary evil," an angry judge sent the sadistic rapist to jail for 422 years on Thursday - and said he deserved even more. ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 9 hours 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 "prolonged mental harm." That heavily censored memo, released Thursday, approved the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques method by method, but warned that if the circumstances changed, interrogators could be running afoul of anti-Torture laws. The Aug. 1, 2002, legal opinion signed by then-Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee was issued the same day he wrote a memo for then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales defining Torture as only those "extreme acts" that cause pain similar in intensity to that caused by death or organ failure. The Bybee legal opinion defining Torture was withdrawn more than two years later. Justice spokesman Peter Carr said Thursday the interrogation techniques currently authorized by the Bush administration are legal. It's unclear, however, which of those outlined in the second memo are still being used. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has refused to address whether waterboarding, for example, is legal since the CIA no longer uses it. Waterboarding is a form of simulated drowning that critics call Torture. CIA Director Michael Hayden banned waterboarding in 2006 but government officials have said it remains a possibility if approved by the attorney general, the ...

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Source: www.miamiherald.com --- 1 day 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." ...

Source: www.rollingstone.com --- 1 day ago
The ACLU has winkled more Torture docs out of the Justice Department. In one, Jay Bybee (the John Yoo overseer who is now a judge on the “liberal” Ninth Circuit) provides the “mental harm” corollary to the advice that physical Torture must arise to the level of pain caused by organ failure or death: Prolonged mental [...] ...

Source: www.channelnewsasia.com --- 11 hours ago
WASHINGTON: A Nobel-prize-winning rights group said US officials committed war crimes by ordering what the group says was Torture of detainees, and called for them to be probed and prosecuted. ...

Source: www.MiamiHerald.com --- 4 hours ago
A government critic's collection includes Bibles, books by Cuban defectors, and positive biographies about Fidel Castro. His collection of movies, mostly documentaries about Cuban human rights violations or nonviolent reformers such as Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr., was taken away by security agents ...

Source: tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com --- 3 hours ago
The more we see of the back-and-forth between the Department of Justice and the CIA regarding the Torture program a few years ago, the more it becomes clear that everyone knew it was a little shady. The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday released three previously undisclosed memos about the Torture program from 2002 to 2004, which it obtained as part of its ongoing FOIA lawsuit with the DOJ seeking records on the treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody overseas. One memo in particular appears to instruct the CIA in what agents should say if anyone raised the specter of criminal charges. For example: "To violate the statute, an individual must have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering. ...absence of specific intent negates the charge of Torture." "It read like an attorney preparing a mob client for a confrontation with the police," said Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University. "Why on earth would you instruct interrogators on the meaning of 'specific intent' unless you wanted to coach them as to what to say when confronted?" The very existence of this extensive, documented legal exchange between the DOJ and the CIA underscores the intelligence officials' concern about the legality of their own program, said Herman Schwartz, a former civil rights attorney and law professor at American University. "The CIA people knew this was shaky stuff -- that's why they kept asking for memos from ...

Source: tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com --- 1 day ago
From the 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 the will of prisoners, including waterboarding, would not cause "prolonged mental harm." The newly released but heavily censored memo approved the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques method by method, but warned that if the circumstances changed, interrogators could be running afoul of anti-Torture laws. The Aug. 1, 2002 memo signed by then-Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee was issued the same day he wrote a memo for then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales defining Torture as only those "extreme acts" that cause pain similar in intensity to that caused by death or organ failure. That memo was later rescinded by the Justice Department. Late Update : The ACLU has posted the memos here . ...

Source: www.azstarnet.com --- 6 hours 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 "prolonged mental harm." ...

Source: www.thelocal.se --- 11 hours ago
The UN Committee against Torture has directed strong criticism against Sweden for the conditions in its remand prisons. ...

Source: forums.hbcuconnect.com --- 13 hours ago
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Source: www.katu.com --- 4 hours 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." ...