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ACLU to Argue Against Use of Evidence Obtained Through Torture in Federal Court

By | 06.30.09 | 6:31 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union will file a brief tomorrow urging the federal court to suppress evidence gathered using torture, which the government wants to rely on in the case of Mohammed Jawad, the boy who “confessed” to throwing a grenade at U.S. soldiers after being arrested and tortured More…

Key Player in ‘Enhanced’ Interrogations Still at CIA

By | 04.23.09 | 7:00 am

“As a general deal,” President Barack Obama said Tuesday about Bush administration officials who shaped the post-9/11 interrogation and detention regime, “I think that we should be looking forward and not backwards.” But it might be hard to determine the difference. A former top lawyer to the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center More…