Yoo’s Got Mail?
The Justice Department has finally uncovered emails written by John Yoo, the author of the so-called torture memos. But something’s missing. Nick Baumann and Daniel…
Human Rights
The New Phoenix Program
Editor’s Note: This should be especially troubling after the recent announcement that microwave weapons would be moving from war zones to American prisons. Could dissenters…
None Dare Call It Tyranny
Sheldon Richman The Future of Freedom Foundation If you want to know what tyranny is like, look around. The national government — specifically the executive…
US Judge OKs confession extracted by threatening suspect with rape
Eric W. Dolan Raw Story In one of the first military commissions held under the Obama administration, a US military judge has ruled that confessions…
Another Nuremberg in the Making: Intelligence Agencies Employ Physicians to Torture Detainees
John Galt Activist Post A series of recent revelations have scratched the surface of just how deranged the actions of America’s intelligence agencies have become. …
AP Exclusive: CIA Whisked Detainees From Gitmo
Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman WASHINGTON (AP) — Four of the nation’s most highly valued terrorist prisoners were secretly moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in…
Study: CIA doctors ‘gave green light to torture’
Muriel Kane Raw Story A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that physicians with the CIA’s Office of Medical Services…
‘Worst Bush-era policies’ becoming the ‘new normal’: ACLU
Muriel Kane The Raw Story From the point of view of civil libertarians, the Obama administration has been an exercise in frustration, with every hopeful…
British Army ‘involved in torture mission with US troops’
Robert Verkaik The Independent Claims that British soldiers used water torture on a badly beaten Iraqi man before unlawfully handing him over to US interrogators…
NY Rep: Investigate Torture or Face Road to “Tyranny”
Sahil Kapur Raw Story WASHINGTON – A New York Democrat argued that failing to prosecute former Bush administration officials complicit in the use of torture…
Will Gitmo Shrinks Lose Their Credentials?
Daniel Schulman Mother Jones Human rights groups target two military psychologists with ethics complaints for complicity in torture. If their aim was to break him,…
Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives
By Amy Goodman – Truthdig Federal authorities are investigating whether officials of the government south of the border participated in a citizen’s kidnapping and torture—Canadian…