Torture
Congress subpoenas Cheney's chief of staff on torture
Posted by theangryindian from Rawstory
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) today issued a subpoena to David Addington, Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, compelling him to testify before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on June 26 for any knowledge of harsh interrogation techniques employed at Guantanamo Bay approved by the Bush Administration.
U.S. mulls Guantanamo closure as Bush term nears end
Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
The Bush administration could announce plans by the end of its term in January to close Guantanamo prison and an upcoming Supreme Court ruling might be the impetus for this, senior U.S. officials and experts say. The government is under international and domestic pressure to close the prison.
Top Bush aides directed torture from the White House
Posted by Sandyenglish
Speaking to the WSWS, Francis Boyle, a professor of international law and human rights at the University of Illinois, said, "Clearly this was criminal activity at the time they committed it. At the very least, it violated the Geneva Conventions, the Convention Against Torture, the War Crimes Act, and the federal anti-torture statutes. Clearly these would be impeachable offenses."
The Torture Drawings the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to See | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet
Posted by Damianmann from Alternet
Drawings by journalist Sami Al-Haj depicting torture at Gitmo have been censored.
Top Bush aides approved interrogation tactics: report
Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
"Highly placed sources said a handful of top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al Qaeda suspects -- whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding," ABC reported. War crimes trials in the future?
Jeremy Scahill: Confronting Blackwater on its Killing of Iraqis
Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from Huffington Post
Last week, Jeremy spoke at a conference organized by NYU's Center on Law and Security called "Privatizing Defense: Blackwater, Contractors, and American Security." Also present at the conference were Blackwater Worldwide vice president Martin Strong and a lawyer for Blackwater, David Hammond. At the conference, I confronted Strong on Blackwater's killi...
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