The big problem in prosecuting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: tortureProsecuting 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.
Waterboarding
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Newt Gingrich: why Nancy Pelosi should quit
The Speaker of the House had said that she wasn’t briefed by CIA on waterboarding being used on Guantanamo detainees, then claimed she’d been “misinformed”. Gingrich calls for her to resign.
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
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.
Cheney’s role in waterboarding thickens
Former NBC investigative producer Robert Windrem reports that the VP’s office suggested waterboarding an Iraq prisoner.
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”.
I waterboard: one man experiments on himself
A Straight Dope reader tries out waterboarding on himself (or so he claims). The verdict? “I would have sold my children to escape.”
We’re all torturers now
The US has become so casual about torture that we now openly debate its efficacy — something nobody would have dared do in the first days after Abu Ghraib, writes Dahlia Lithwick.
Military agency warned against torture in 2002
A US military agency warned the Bush administration in 2002 that harsh interrogation tactics could yield “unreliable information”. Looks like they didn’t listen.
Cheney hints waterboarding prevented terrorist attack
Dick Cheney has intimated that waterboarding prevented a terrorist attack on LA. Should he be prosecuted?
I interrogated Zubaydah: we didn’t need to use torture
A former FBI agent claims waterboarding wasn’t necessary to uncover any intelligence from Abu Zubaydah — they had it all before the torture even started.
Thiessen: Torture made us safer
The interrogation tactics used on terrorism suspects made the US safer, writes a former Bush staffer.
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”.