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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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Cheney: CIA torture program ‘absolutely, totally justified’
Former US vice president Dick Cheney has defended the use of torture by the Central Intelligence Agency ahead of the release of a new Senate report on the agency’s controversial program. In a phone interview
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‘Defense support of civil authorities’ has been authorized — Armed military forces and drones to be used against combative Americans during unrest
According to a Dept. of Defense Directive, last revised in 2012, armed military forces, including advanced militarized drones, have been approved, upon authorization from the President or Secretary of Defense, for use domestically against
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Brazil unveils ‘Robocop’ suit to protect super-elite police unit during World Cup
There will be a RoboCop style to the face of policing in Rio when football fans turn up for the World Cup in Brazil next month. Members of a special unit set up for the
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The High-Tech Soldiers of the Future Are Here
Those troops you saw in science fiction movies as a child are now real. A few years ago, many countries recognized a need to upgrade the individual infantryman and thus started their own "future
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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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Knowing How the Global Internet Works – And How It Can Crash
We all know about websites crashing, or institutional infrastructure crashing, but can the Internet crash? The answer is ‘yes’. As we’ve pointed out before to 21WIRE readers, roughly 99% of TED Talks are pretty useless
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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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CIA Torture and the Threat of Dictatorship
Only one conclusion can be drawn from the report published in the Washington Post Tuesday giving grisly details of CIA torture of prisoners and systematic lying by government officials to cover it up: the
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White House: No more information about drone killings will be released to public
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Thursday that the Obama administration will not be releasing any more information about the controversial use of drones to kill American citizens
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CIA confirms agency obliged to follow federal surveillance law
The CIA has confirmed that it is obliged to follow a federal law barring the collection of financial information and hacking into government data networks. But neither the agency nor its Senate overseers will say
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New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours at a time
Shooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape. Hair color, bullet wounds, even the weapon were not visible in the series of pictures taken from an airplane
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Massive US airships to conduct 24/7 domestic aerial surveillance
The US Army plans to deploy two massive airships with powerful surveillance systems over the US state of Maryland to monitor the country’s East Coast round-the-clock, heightening privacy concerns. The airships, known as aerostats, will
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Pentagon Building Superhuman Soldiers of the Future
It's been a longtime dream of DARPA to grace the battlefield with super soldiers. Back in 2010, a plan was announced to install transcranial ultrasonic mind control devices into soldiers' helmets in order to
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WANTED Dead Not Alive!
Taxing Human Life One government Murder at a time! There are literally dozens of ways that innocent Americans are killed every hour of every day in America today! With Obama’s Unaffordable Deathcare Taxes, you must pay this
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Iron Man army: US military developing armor that allows special ops commandos to walk through stream of bullets, see in the dark, heal wounds and monitor vital signs
It's the superhuman suit that will turn special operations commandos into real-life Iron Men. The U.S. military is developing a new uniform for troops that will be bullet-proof, enhance the wearer's strength, heal wounds by
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Ex-NSA/CIA chief Hayden jokes of putting Snowden on kill list
When it comes to Edward Snowden, it's reasonable to expect a little hard talk from former NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden. After all, it is HIS baby that’s been shamed by Snowden’s leaks. But
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