Turns out the story from the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph that the photos the Obama administration is refusing to release, despite a court order to do so, are not the same ones that Maj. Gen. Antonia Taguba said depict brutal rapes of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
At least, so says More…
The Daily Telegraph reports that some of the photos of prisoner abuse that President Obama has refused to release — after earlier promising to make them public — depict the brutal rape and sexual abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping
Dick Cheney’s continued insistence that the torture techniques used by the CIA and DOD on terror suspects, or associates of terror suspects, or anyone they picked up that they thought might know some information, based at times on the “confessions” extracted from torture victims, has shifted much of the More…
As civil rights and grassroots advocates step up the pressure on Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute former Bush officials for authorizing torture, Congress appears increasingly divided over the issue.
Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and even John McCain (R-Ariz.) — the nation’s most famous torture victim — More…
A wealth of new details emerged Tuesday about how techniques designed to help captured U.S. troops resist torture formed the basis for the post-9/11 interrogation policies of the Bush-era Pentagon.
Instructors of those techniques proved to be eager in 2002 and 2003 to disseminate them to an emerging crop of More…
It’s interesting to note the contrast when someone charges government complicity with torture in the United Kingdom, versus here in the United States.
Ever since Binyam Mohamed — the Ethiopian-born Guantanamo detainee who claims he was tortured as part of the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program (and whom I’ve written about More…
The U.S. government tried to get Binyam Mohamed — the British resident who was held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for four years and allegedly tortured in CIA “black sites” — to promise not to speak to the media or sue the United States as a condition More…
Maybe it was the recent Gallup poll showing that more than 62 percent of Americans favor some sort of investigation into alleged Bush administration lawbreaking, but a source on Capitol Hill said the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), is considering launching an inquiry More…
So much for that legal loophole I’ve written about before that would have allowed Blackwater Worldwide to continue guarding U.S. officials in Iraq without being subject to Iraqi law. Well, the loophole’s still in place, but now, as Spencer wrote earlier, the government of Iraq has refused to More…
Not to contradict Spencer, but I have to note at least a couple of caveats to the high praise for President Obama’s sweeping first acts in office.
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