Many Americans would be shocked to know that our government has a history of covering up horrible prison murders; many times by spewing outrageous lies.
When President George W. Bush formulated the concept of an American Devil's Island in Cuba, he did so heedless of the damage to the Constitution his experiment in torture and confinement without end would bring about.
A new report has been published this past week that details the United States torture program used primarily by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) called "enhanced interrogation techniques" (EITs) used at Guantanamo Bay and other black sites.
For the past several days, the media, both the corporate media as well as the alternative media, have been widely reporting news about the alleged "Pentagon leaks" which resulted in an arrest today of a suspect who was charged with espionage.
So many military staffers and guards passed through Guantanamo during my 14-year detention that I remember only the kindest, and the cruellest – the ones who seemed to take joy in our misery.
It's been 19 years since U.S. forces captured Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn and declared him one of the senior leaders of al Qaeda. It's been 15 years since the CIA quietly revoked that assessment once it was done torturing him.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi spent 14 years shackled in the world's most notorious detention centre where he was beaten, sexually assaulted and starved -- despite never being charged with a crime
THE DETAILS of the U.S. government's descent into torture as an anti-terrorism tactic have been publicly rehearsed many times in the 18-plus years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Nevertheless, the mistreatment of alleged al-Qaeda detainees at CI
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