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A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for the alleged torture by U.S. forces of two Americans who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm.
U.S. District Judge Wayne R. Andersen’s ruling did not say the two contractors had proven any of their claims. But [...]
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U.S.: Senate Torture Probe Uncovers Missing Emails
William Fisher, IPS News
NEW YORK, Feb 27, 2010 (IPS) – The Justice Department investigation into whether the authors of the George W. Bush-era “torture memos” were guilty of professional misconduct did not have full access to the emails used by those lawyers and by other key figures in the investigation, including former Attorney General John [...]
Bush’s torture psychologists wanted to use ‘mock burials’: report
Raw Story
Two psychologists working on the Bush administration’s enhanced interrogation techniques pushed for the use of “mock burials” on terror suspects, according to documents released by the Department of Justice.
Poland releases details on CIA ‘black sites’
Globe and Mail/StatismWatch
February 22, 2010
Human rights groups receive confirmation planes associated with the CIA’s secret detainee program landed in Poland in 2003
Human rights groups say the Polish government has for the first time provided official records confirming the landing of planes associated with the CIA’s secret detainee program.
The Open Society Justice Initiative and the Helsinki [...]
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MI5 may face new torture inquiry
TimesOnline/David Leppard
21 Feb 2010
AS befits Britain’s most senior spy, Jonathan Evans is noted in Whitehall for being cool under fire. That quality will be tested this week when MI5’s director-general learns whether his service is about to be engulfed by one of the biggest crises in its 100-year history.
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The Real Roots of the CIA’s Rendition and Black Sites Program
H.P. Albarelli Jr. and Jeffrey Kaye, t r u t h o u t / Op-Ed
On Tuesday, February 10, the British High Court finally released a “seven-paragraph court document showing that MI5 officers were involved in the ill-treatment of a British resident, Binyam Mohamed.” The document is itself a summary of 42 classified CIA documents [...]
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Dick Cheney Admits to Torture Conspiracy
If the U.S. had a functioning criminal justice system for the powerful, former Vice President Dick Cheney would have just convicted himself with his Sunday comments.
Consortium News / Robert Parry
On Sunday, Cheney pronounced himself “a big supporter of waterboarding,” a near-drowning technique that has been regarded as torture back to the Spanish [...]
British court acknowledges CIA tortured terror suspect if held under British law
John Byrne/RawStory
A former Guantanamo Bay inmate was effectively tortured by US authorities while in CIA custody in Pakistan, according to intelligence notes released Wednesday by a British court.
The court forced the UK government to release 2002 US intelligence notes conveyed to Britain on the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, who was shackled and warned he would [...]
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Fort Lewis soldier charged with abusing 4-year-old over alphabet lesson
Susan Gilmore/Seattle Times
A Fort Lewis soldier has been charged with assault after he allegedly held his 4-year-old daughter mostly underwater because she couldn’t recite the alphabet. Charging papers equated the technique to torture.
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