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War Crimes in Iraq: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld Et Al and the Long Quest for Justice
San Francisco lawyer Inder Comar didn't at first strike me as a human rights crusader attempting to convey responsibility to seemingly the most intense political office on the planet. Perhaps it was the setting.
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Germany Files War Crimes Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld And Other CIA Officials
If President Obama won’t do it, someone else will. Thankfully, a human rights group in Berlin, The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, has begun the process of indicting members of the Bush
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The CIA Didn’t Just Torture, It Experimented on Human Beings
Human experimentation was a core feature of the CIA’s torture program. The experimental nature of the interrogation and detention techniques is clearly evident in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s executive summary of its investigative report,
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2 psychologists earned $81M from CIA torture tactics
The Central Intelligence Agency’s torture of detainees was developed by two inexperienced contractors who were eventually paid $81 million for their work, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the program released Tuesday. The
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Torture becomes mainstream in US policy
As Rebecca Gordon notes in her new book, Mainstreaming Torture, polls find greater support in the United States for torture now than when Bush was president. And it's not hard to see why
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More Torture Pics: Torture by U.S. continues under Obama administration
We have been hearing all the gush about how the Obama Administration will make a clean break from the illegal practices of the Bush Administration but the Obama DOJ is maintaining the position espoused
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54 Countries Offered Covert Support To CIA Torture
The full extent of the CIA's extraordinary rendition programme has been laid bare with the publication of a report showing there is evidence that more than a quarter of the world's governments covertly offered
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