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[1/6/09] Gaza Update [1]

Crooks and Liars: Aid Agencies Say Gaza Needs Food, Medicine and Body Bags
-Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza, tells Sky News that the number of civilians injured and killed in Gaza proves that Israel is deliberately attacking the population.
-About 530 Palestinians have been killed, at least a quarter of them civilians, since Israel launched [...]

Greenwald: Torture prosecutions finally begin in the U.S.

http://www.salon.com….
Glenn Greenwald
Wednesday Dec. 31, 2008 07:56 EST
(updated below - Update II)
While fiercely loyal establishment spokespeople such as The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus continue to insist that prosecutions are only appropriate for common criminals (”someone breaking into your house”) but not our glorious political leaders when they break the law (by, say, systematically torturing people), the Bush administration has righteously decided that [...]

Breaking The Will: How waterboarding got the green light from Bush.

http://www.newsweek.com…
Michael Isikoff and
Mark Hosenball
The Bush administration approved the use of “waterboarding” on Al Qaeda detainees after receiving reports from government psychologists that it was “100 percent effective” in breaking the will of U.S. military personnel subjected to the technique during training, according to documents released today by a Senate Committee.

Senate report: Rumsfeld to blame for detainee abuse

http://rawstory.com…
RAW STORY
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other members of the Bush administration “conveyed the message that physical pressures and degradation were appropriate treatment for detainees,” claims a Senate Armed Services Committee report issued Thursday.

Bush administration delays release of prisoner abuse photos

http://rawstory.com…
Nick Juliano
Published: Friday November 7, 2008
The Bush administration is doing everything it can to delay compliance with a court’s order that the Pentagon turn over pictures of prisoners abused in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new court filing.
A three-judge appeals court panel in September ordered the administration to turn over 87 photographs depicting abuses [...]

CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos

http://www.washingtonpost.com…
Waterboarding Got White House Nod
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 15, 2008; A01
The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency’s use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible [...]

Air Force Instructor Details Harsh Interrogations

http://www.washingtonpost.com…
Colonel Tells Senate Panel How U.S. Training Program Was Adapted for Use Against Iraqi Detainees
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 26, 2008; A17
The techniques themselves — forced nudity, sleep deprivation, painful shackling — had been used for years to prepare U.S. fighter pilots for possible capture by an enemy. But Col. Steven Kleinman, an [...]

Court orders release of Pentagon prisoner abuse pics

http://rawstory.com…
Nick Juliano
Published: Monday September 22, 2008
A federal appeals court on Monday ordered the Bush administration to hand over photos depicting abuse of prisoners held by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, handing the American Civil Liberties Union a victory in an ongoing public records lawsuit filed against the Pentagon.

Sex Crimes in the White House

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
Posted July 7, 2008 | 12:56 PM (EST)
NEW YORK - Sex crime has a telltale signature, even when those directing the outrages are some of the most powerful men and women in the United States. How extraordinary, then, to learn that one of the perpetrators of these crimes, Condoleezza Rice, has just led the debate [...]

Hersh: children raped at Abu Ghraib, Pentagon has videos

http://www.boingboing.net/…
Published on Wednesday, April 02, 2008.
From Daily Kos’ partial transcript of a video (link to REAL stream) of Seymour Hersh speaking at an ACLU event. He says the US government has videotapes of children being raped at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.