US unable to document any payments for Abu Ghraib
US cannot document any payment to detainees for abuse at Abu Ghraib. Associated Press Fending off demands that he resign over the Abu…
Human Rights
It Is Official: The US Is A Police State
Paul Craig Roberts Antiwar On September 24, Jason Ditz reported on Antiwar.com that “the FBI is confirming that this morning they began a number of raids against…
It Is Official: The US Is A Police State
Paul Craig Roberts Antiwar On September 24, Jason Ditz reported on Antiwar.com that “the FBI is confirming that this morning they began a number of raids against…
Thousands held without trial in Iraq: Amnesty
Iraqi detainees in Baquba. (Eros Hoagland for The New York Times) AFP Tens of thousands of detainees are being held without trial in Iraqi prisons…
America’s Torture Doctrine
John Galt Activist Post The new mainstream American value of torture is steeped in self-deception, legal justification, and propaganda. We idolize torturers in our favorite…
Court Dismisses a Case Asserting Torture by C.I.A.
Charlie Savage The New York Times WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that former prisoners of the C.I.A. could not sue over their alleged…
Former CIA officer accused of abusing suspect now training other operatives
Associated Press A former CIA officer accused of revving an electric drill near the head of an imprisoned terror suspect has returned to U.S. intelligence…
Yoo’s Got Mail?
The Justice Department has finally uncovered emails written by John Yoo, the author of the so-called torture memos. But something’s missing. Nick Baumann and Daniel…
The New Phoenix Program
Editor’s Note: This should be especially troubling after the recent announcement that microwave weapons would be moving from war zones to American prisons. Could dissenters…
None Dare Call It Tyranny
Sheldon Richman The Future of Freedom Foundation If you want to know what tyranny is like, look around. The national government — specifically the executive…
US Judge OKs confession extracted by threatening suspect with rape
Eric W. Dolan Raw Story In one of the first military commissions held under the Obama administration, a US military judge has ruled that confessions…
Another Nuremberg in the Making: Intelligence Agencies Employ Physicians to Torture Detainees
John Galt Activist Post A series of recent revelations have scratched the surface of just how deranged the actions of America’s intelligence agencies have become. …
AP Exclusive: CIA Whisked Detainees From Gitmo
Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman WASHINGTON (AP) — Four of the nation’s most highly valued terrorist prisoners were secretly moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in…
Study: CIA doctors ‘gave green light to torture’
Muriel Kane Raw Story A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that physicians with the CIA’s Office of Medical Services…