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.
Torture
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.
The Obama-Cheney face-off
It was close as it gets to a grand Lincoln-Douglas-style debate: on Thursday, Obama and Dick Cheney both addressed audiences on the issues of national security and civil liberties. Guess who was Lincoln?
Newsweek journo reveals details of secret White House torture meeting
Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff tells MSNBC of a meeting on torture between Obama and human rights and civil liberties groups that went completely off the rails.
Military attorney: Waterboarding just the “tip of the iceberg”
A military attorney who represented a former Guantanamo detainee tells CNN that waterboarding is only “the tip of the iceberg” in terms of torture in the prison.
Jesse “The Body” Ventura on waterboarding
Former pro wrestler Jesse “The Body” Ventura takes <i>The View</i> host Elisabeth Hasselbeck to task over waterboarding: “You give me a waterboard, one hour, and Dick Cheney and I’ll have him confessing to the Sharon Tate murders
Rumsfeld and Cheney: torture as self-justification
“He’s a ruthless little bastard. You can be sure of that.” So said Richard Nixon of Donald Rumsfeld back in 1971.
Pelosi goes on the attack
Republican Nancy Pelosi has attacked the CIA, claiming she was never briefed about water-boarding and that the agency deliberately mislead Congress.
Joe Klein: We don’t need to see the pictures
Publishing American torture photos would put US soldiers in greater danger in areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan where literacy rates are low and a picture is worth a thousand words, argues Joe Klein.
Cheney’s role in waterboarding thickens
Former NBC investigative producer Robert Windrem reports that the VP’s office suggested waterboarding an Iraq prisoner.
Cheney: “No regrets” on interrogation
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney told CBS’s Face The Nation that he has no regrets over the War on Terror or the interrogation tactics used by the Bush administration.
Essay: The many renditions of Mamdouh Habib
Let’s take a swift trip into the heart of darkness, writes Richard Neville.
Protesting media censorship with Lego men
Flickr user Legofesto has created a pretty amazing gallery of Lego men being tortured to make a political point about how the media censor torture images.
Australia’s role in the American Inquisition
Did Australian authorities aid and abet the US in the torture and kidnap of Mamdouh Habib?
Could Cheney be convicted for torture?
There’s a case to be made for prosecuting Dick Cheney and co. for torture-related offenses, but the real question is whether he’d ever get a conviction.
Condi’s Nixon moment
Asked if waterboarding is torture, Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that “if it was authorised by the President, it didn’t violate our obligations under the Convention against Torture”.
Abu Ghraib guards take the Nuremberg
With the release of the CIA torture memos, guards jailed for their treatment of inmates at Abu Ghraib prison plan to appeal on the grounds that they were “scapegoats” for the Bush Administration.
Spain can take George Bush to court
A Spanish judge has announced a formal criminal investigation into Bush officials involved in torture policy.
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”.