CIA Responds To Horrifying Torture Report
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Natasha BertrandThe director of the CIA has issued a statement in response to the Senate Intelligence Committee's release of the CIA Torture Report early Tuesday.
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The CIA Torture Details Are Appalling
• http://www.businessinsider.comThe Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on Tuesday that details harsh CIA interrogation techniques employed in counterterrorism efforts during the administration of President George W. Bush.
President Obama Praises "Patriotic" Torturers...
• http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenPresident Obama Praises "Patriotic" Torturers, Says USA "Greatest Force For Human Dignity The World Has Ever Seen"
CIA Paid Torture Teachers More Than $80 Million
• Robert Windrem, NBC NewsThe CIA contractors who helped develop and operate the "enhanced interrogation techniques" that the agency used on terror suspects, including waterboarding, were paid more than $80 million, according to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence rep
Cheney blasts torture report he hasn't seen as 'a bunch of hooey'
• Steve Benen, MSNBCIt's a curious argument: "We didn't do anything wrong, but for the love of God, please don't tell anyone what we did." Leading the charge, not surprisingly, is former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has not read the report, but is neverth
Calls Grow For Dick Cheney and George W. Bush To Be Prosecuted For Torture
• Jason Easley, Politicususa.comA top international official is calling for the criminal prosecution of top members of the Bush administration for torture and other war crimes.
Crime Without Punishment
Stephen Lendmantorture
Senate Torture Report Faults C.I.A. for Brutality and Deceit
• http://www.nytimes.com, By MARK MAZZETTIA scathing report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday found that the Central Intelligence Agency routinely misled the White House and Congress...
US Prepares for Blowback as CIA Torture Report Looms
• http://news.antiwar.com, Jason DitzTroops Put on Higher State of Alert Worldwide
Former CIA Chief Claims No Lies Were Told About Torture
• http://thelibertybeat.com-Sunday former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden claimed that the CIA never lied about it's torture program as alleged by Senate Democrats.
UN Report Documents Torture, Police Violence in US
• http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick MartinThe United Nations Committee Against Torture issued a lengthy report today assessing the performance of the 156 countries whose governments have ratified the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, wh
No Charges, No Trials, No Closure: Obama Quietly Frees Guantánamo Prisoners
• .President Barack Obama pledged in 2009 to shutter Guantánamo Bay by the end of his presidency, a promise he's repeated as recently as this year's State of the Union address. It's increasingly looking like he won't be able to keep his word.
UN Committee Against Torture Criticizes US Policy
Stephen Lendmantorture
Obama refuses to close door on torture
• http://america.aljazeera.com, by Faiza PatelThis year President Barack Obama rejected two excellent opportunities to close the door on the shameful use of torture and cruelty by the United States.
An Innocent Man, Tortured by the U.S., Asks the U.N.: Where's the Accountability?
• .US officials are in for a serious grilling as they get hauled before the UN Committee against Torture and questioned about a multitude of ways in which the US appears to be failing to comply with the anti-torture treaty it ratified 20 years ago.
NSA alive & well at colleges: code MDA-904
• ."US intelligence funding of academic research has over 3,000 National Security Agency and over 100 Defense Intelligence Agency funded papers and draws attention to recent unreported revelations of CIA funding for torture research."
CIA Torture Report Close to Release
• http://thelibertybeat.com, by Derrick BrozeThe summary of a report on CIA torture methods may finally be released this week after months of delays.
Will Rasmea Odeh Go to Prison Because of a Confession Obtained Through Torture?
• http://m.thenation.com, Charlotte SilverRasmea Odeh was one month old when her family fled from their home in Lifta, a village outside Jerusalem. By February 1948, the Zionist army had destroyed Lifta and expelled its residents as part of its strategy to take control of Jerusalem.
U.S. Torture Pics Ordered Released by 12/12
• Olga Belinskaya, American Free PressU.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein gave the Obama administration until December 12 to justify withholding as many as 2,100 photographs depicting the torture of prisoners. The government's response is expected to be its most detailed argument for
Will Rasmea Odeh Go to Prison Because of a Confession Obtained Through Torture?
• The NationForty years ago, the Israeli army tortured and imprisoned her. Now she's being forced to relive the nightmare in a US court.
John Fund - Pimping the Vote
Melinda Pillsbury-FosterJohn Fund makes a good living providing cover for election fraud, not as good a living as he made while still placed at the WSJ as a political operative, but enough.
Blowing the Whistle on CIA Torture from Beyond the Grave
• .The APA in 2002 famously revised its ethics code to permit a psychologist to follow "governing legal authority" even if it clashed with the APA's own code of ethics. It was the Nuremberg Defense of "just following orders."
Gitmo force-feeding manual reveals gruesome practices
• aljazeera.comThough heavily redacted and filled with euphemisms, new document should shake public conscience
A Murder Mystery at Guantanamo Bay - by Ray McGovern
• .America's plunge into the "dark side" last decade created a hidden history of shocking brutality, including torture and homicides, that the US government would prefer to keep secret, even though many of the perpetrators are out of office
Guantanamo's Controversial Force-Feeding Policies Go on Trial
• https://news.vice.com, By Jason LeopoldTwo weeks ago, medical personnel at Guantanamo Bay told VICE News that hunger-striking detainees are fed no differently than American patients in US hospitals who require feeding tubes.
Guards at Concentration Camps Were Just Doing Their Jobs
• http://www.lewrockwell.com,By Laurence M. VanceThe lamest, most ignorant, and most intellectually lazy excuse given to justify the actions of U.S. soldiers (and sailors, airmen, and Marines) is that they are just doing their job.
Senate Torture Report Vanishes
• unz.comDavid Copperfield is a CIA Contractor?
Court Lets Cisco Off the Hook for Helping China Detain, Torture Religious Minorities
• EFFThe court noted even though Cisco developed the system for the purpose of tracking, identifying and facilitating the capture of Chinese religious minorities, Cisco would not be held liable because it didn't do enough in the US to facilitate abuses.
Authoritarian Sociopathy
•Many anarchists and libertarians eagerly study the psychology of tyrants in an effort to know their enemy in the battlefield of politics. Getting into the minds of our enemy is regarded as a strategy, a means to our political ends… which is an end
Mexico is trying to win its war on drugs by using more torture
• http://www.globalpost.comMexico's use of torture in the drug war is up 600 percent in last 10 years, reports Amnesty International.
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