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Britain's police watchdog investigated brutality allegations Wednesday against six London officers who were suspended over claims they abused suspects arrested in drug raids.
A former No. 2 State Department official in the Bush administration says he hopes he would have had the courage to resign if he had known the CIA was subjecting terrorism suspects to waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning.
Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr. says waterboarding is torture.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday defended tough interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects approved by the Bush administration in the wake of 9/11, saying they were necessary to protect America from new attacks.
President Bush said Saturday he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks.
The United Nations' torture investigator criticized the White House Wednesday for defending the use of waterboarding and urged the U.S. to give up its defense of "unjustifiable" interrogation methods.
Protesters staged a waterboarding Monday outside the Justice Department, calling for a Senate committee to reject attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey because of his reluctance to define the interrogation tactic as torture.
Nonie Darwish: Khalid's Trial is America's Trial - Atlas ShrugsKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, who confessed to be the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attack, will be tried at a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan with the same rights as any US citizens. What is the purpose of this trial if Mr.
Marine officer who set up Guantanamo prison dismayed by what it has becomeIn late 2001, when the Pentagon decided to put detainees at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the task of setting up a camp and establishing its rules went to Marine Brig. Gen. Michael Lehnert.
Torture: Not Just an Evil Necessity, But the New Republican ValueThe New York Times reports that Liz Cheney's star is rising in the party of torture:"Mr.
I've repeatedly seen the claim that former president Bush and his administration tortured terrorist suspects. This claim often points to the so called "waterboarding" as the torture.
Severe interrogation techniques like sleep deprivation, stress positions, exploitation of phobias, and Dick Cheney's favorite, waterboarding aren't just reprehensible, they are based on bad science, according to Shane O"Mara, a stress researcher at Ireland's Trinity College Insti …
Waterboarding Doesn't Work, Scientists Say | Wired Science | Wired.comSevere interrogation techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, stress positions and the exploitation of phobias aren't just morally reprehensible, they're based on bad science, destroying the very memories they're supposed to recover.
Today, as I watched the news and cried again as the planes struck the WTC and ultimately fell, and took all those people with them to their death, I did not feel sorry one bit for those who are sitting in GITMO getting three squares a day of their special diet, exercise, and abil …
Yes, Harsh Interrogations Work...Except it's not a fable. It describes the course of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's post-capture career, according to the Washington Post.
49% Oppose Justice Department Probe of Bush-era CIAifty-four percent (54%) of all voters, however, believe the investigation of past CIA interrogation practices endangers the national security of the United States. Only 29% say it helps the image of America abroad, and 18% are not sure.
Cheney says cooperation with CIA probe will depend | ReutersFormer Vice President Dick Cheney said he might refuse to speak with a prosecutor investigating suspected CIA prisoner abuses, a probe he branded as political and bad for national security...
Dick Cheney Terrified Of CIA ProbeCheney said, "I just think it's an outrageous political act that will do great damage, long term, to our capacity to be able to have people take on difficult jobs, make difficult decisions, without having to worry about what the next administration is going to say." Dick Ch …
Sept. 11 Plotter Cooperated After Waterboarding"These scenes provide previously unpublicized details about the transformation of the man known to U.S. officials as KSM from an avowed and truculent enemy of the United States into what the CIA called its "preeminent source" on al-Qaeda.
We Need to Know What Was Done in Our NameHistory's demands can seem inconvenient, unfair or unreasonable. But they can't be ignored.
Did Waterboarding Actually Work?Internal CIA reports released by the Obama administration on Monday suggest that former vice president Dick Cheney was right about one thing: the CIA's interrogations of suspected terrorists provided U.S.
As a veteran and as the proud parent of a soldier, I have watched with dismay and horror as news of the torture of terrorists and prisoners in the custody of my country has come creeping out of the White House and CIA headquarters.
CIA Withheld Medical Information From the Justice Department to Obtain Torture ApprovalsIt's almost enough to generate sympathy for Jay Bybee and John Yoo, the two heads the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 2002 who signed off on the infamous torture memos.
Obama ends Bush-era interrogation tactics, even for CIA The Obama administration has decided to jettison the controversial harsh interrogation tactics favored by President Bush and is instead pledging to rely on less-coercive techniques traditionally used by US military and law enforcement officials.
Sodomized to Protect Our FreedomsOne of the best indictments of "enhanced interrogation" I've read.
Report: Interrogators threatened to quit over waterboardingTwo of the key designers of the Bush administration's torture program ended up in a "tug of war" with their superiors about how far went too far when coercing information out of suspects, says a new article in the Washington Post.
The Democrats' War on Our Spies :: Jed Babbin The Democrats' war against our spies has taken two new turns.
US top prosecutor considering torture investigationAfter President Obama promised in April to "look forward" and not to seek prosecution of those involved in policies with which he disagreed, his A.G. is considering setting the injurious precedent of one administration prosecuting the previous one for polcies it didn't like.
With CIA "Lie", House Democrats play politics with national security to protect Pelosi"As political spectacles go, one would be hard pressed to find anything as ridiculous as the Washington Romper Room now starring Congressional Democrats and the CIA. If only the consequences weren't potentially so damaging for national security.
Waterboarding by London's Police Force and why the force faces the biggest police scandal in decadesallegations of corruption, theft and brutality that dog the Met. A nondescript terrace house in North London and a police drugs raid is in full swing.
WHORES ON TERROR: Never mind the waterboarding, here's the sodomyI don't want to come off as minimizing the horror of controlled drowning. It's just that there's something about forcible anal rape that brings the torture issue into sharp focus.
Whores on Terror: Never mind the waterboarding, what about the sodomy?Waterboarding. It's all we seem to discuss when comes to American torture. Whenever you see people discussing "enhanced interrogation" on your TV, chances are they'll be throwing around the same tired arguments, all revoling around waterboarding.
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