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Posts Tagged accountability for torture

Supreme Court Rejects Key Torture Case

By | 12.14.09 | 11:55 am

The Supreme Court today issued a blow to victims of abuse by U.S. officials during the “war on terror.” The high court this morning refused to review a federal appeals court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit by four British citizens who claimed they were wrongly arrested More…

Controversy Intensifies Over Rumors of Holder’s Possible Interrogation Abuse Prosecutions

By | 07.27.09 | 3:27 pm

The Washington Post’s editorial today arguing for prosecution only of “those who went well beyond the often-extreme measures authorized by the [Office of Legal Counsel] memos” that justified abusive interrogations is calling more attention to the rumor, first reported by Daniel Klaidman in Newsweek, that Attorney General Eric Holder More…