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Documents Suggest DOD Failed to Probe Alleged War Crimes

By | 09.25.09 | 6:00 am

New documents obtained by TWI related to the case of Mohammed Jawad, an adolescent tortured by Afghan police and then abused again by U.S. interrogators, suggest that not only certain CIA interrogations, but interrogations by the Department of Defense demand a broader investigation as well.

Last month, Attorney More…

‘Torture Works’ is Not a Defense

By | 04.24.09 | 2:40 pm

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…