ABC News has uncovered the site of one of the CIA’s secret European prisons: inside a fancy-pants horse riding school in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Torture
The repugnant case of Omar Khadr
The US is still refusing to release or repatriate Canadian citizen and terror suspect Omar Khadr, who was arrested in 2002 in Afghanistan at the age of 15 and has been detained in Guantanamo Bay ever since, says Greg Barns.
The big problem in prosecuting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: torture
Prosecuting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the confessed architect of 9/11, should be a no-brainer. But the torture he endured at the hands of Guantanamo interrogators may have ruined the entire case.
Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be “raped with broken bottles” in Uzbekistan
The former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan claims the CIA sent terror suspects to the country as part of its extraordinary rendition program, where they were “raped with broken bottles” and were forced to watch their children tortured in front of them, to gather intelligence.
shocking CIA kept detainees alive to torture them more
A human rights lawyer claims that under the Bush administration, the CIA tortured some terror suspects so badly during interrogation sessions, it had to keep them alive so they could continue being tortured.
Torture makes the innocent seem guilty
A new study has found that the more a victim suffers during torture, the guiltier they are perceived to be — even if they don’t confess to anything — as those complicit in the nasty interrogation method try to subconsciously justify their own actions.
No. 1 with a bullet: which songs are on Guantanamo’s greatest hits list?
A coalition of musicians is calling on the US government to reveal which songs have been used to torture prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. One prisoner claims to have been subjected to 20 straight hours of “The Real Slim Shady”.
How the CIA’s interrogation tactics damage the brain
Waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation” techniques used on terror suspects by the CIA can badly damage the brain, actually making it harder for victims to recall information and tell the truth, according to a new report.
Sullivan: Dear Bush, only you can prevent torture
As a fellow Christian and conservative, commentator Andrew Sullivan writes an open letter to former US President George W. Bush, asking him to take full responsibility for the torture perpetrated under his regime, so the country can finally move forward.
Most vulnerable refugees now protected
New changes to visas mean that women at risk of honour killings or genital mutilation will be eligible for refugee status and won’t have to rely on ministerial discretion for protection.
Did Australia knowingly allow a citizen to be tortured?
How involved and aware were Australian authorities in the torture of terror suspect Mamdouh Habib? If Habib is permitted to fight for compensation, then the details of Australia’s actions may finally see the light of day.
Doctors accuse CIA of “human experimentation”
A medical ethics watchdog says doctors employed the CIA to monitor its “enhanced interrogation techniques”, such as waterboarding, may be guilty of “unlawful human experimentation”, claiming they actively monitored detainees as human test subjects without their consent.
Read the full CIA torture report
Read the full 2004 inspector general’s report that has revealed shocking allegations of CIA interrogators using techniques such as “mock executions”, and threatening to kill and rape terror suspects’ family members to get them talking.
CIA staged “mock executions” in interrogations
A soon-to-be-released report reveals that the CIA used “mock executions” to interrogate terror suspects, brandishing guns and firing shots in order to convince them they were about to be shot and force the suspects to talk.
CIA’s ‘ghost flights’ could go public
Secret details of the CIA program that sent terrorist suspects to countries and prisons where they could be tortured may soon become public, with the British aviation company that allegedly operated the off-the-grid “ghost flights” agreeing to give evidence.
From Washington to waterboarding
The Washington Post reveals that CIA bosses labelled the interrogation team handling terror suspect Abu Zubaida’s case spineless for objecting to waterboarding… until the chiefs viewed the technique for themselves, and immediately pulled the plug.
UK MP blows the lid on MI5 torture secrets
The former UK Home Secretary has revealed how MI5 and police “effectively sub-contracted” the torture of a terror susepect to a Pakistani intelligence agency, with information previously suppressed by the government.
Why isn’t Scott Roeder being charged as a terrorist?
On the face of it, abortionist assassin Scott Roeder ticks all of the boxes of a terrorist, so why isn’t he being charged as one? Asks Jeff Sparrow.
London metro police accused of torture
Waterboarding is at the centre of an anti-corruption investigation into London’s metropolitan police force, putting fuel on the fire of public concern regarding police brutality in the UK.
Bottled waterboarding
CIA interrogators at Guantanamo employed a civilised tool for the brutal task of waterboarding — bottled water, straight from the fridge.
Clarke: 9/11 “trauma” is no excuse
9/11 may have changed many things, says Richard A. Clarke, but it did not change the Constitution — Bush officials can’t use it to justify their actions.
Humanity and torture: effective interrogation or brutality?
A fascinating panel on the difficult questions of torture raised by the controversies over interrogations of Al Qaida prisoners and others engaged in or suspected of terrorism since 9/11.
We are a nation of law: Powell takes on Cheney
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell made an appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation, hitting back at Dick Cheney and other critics Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo.
Gawker / Thursday, 28 May 2009
US radio shockjock “Mancow” tested waterboarding to prove it isn’t torture. He lasted six seconds, and now says it’s “absolutely torture”.