Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations
Posted October 4th, 2007 by dougzilla
October 4, 2007
This article is by Scott Shane, David Johnston and James Risen.
original article @ www.nytimes.com
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations.
Janis Karpinski: They Knew What They Were Doing
Posted September 4th, 2007 by dougzilla
In June 2003, during the US-led occupation of Iraq, Gen. Janis Karpinski was given command of the 800th Military Police Brigade, putting her in charge of the fifteen detention facilities in southern and central Iraq run by Coalition forces, including Abu Ghraib. Truthout's Geoffrey Millard recently sat down with Karpinski to get her side of the story of how the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib was allowed to happen.
Torture; the dirty business
Posted August 22nd, 2007 by dougzilla
Channel 4's shocking documentary, "Torture; the dirty business" was broadcast on Tuesday 1 March 2005. In the documentary, Craig Murray talks in detail about the torture cases he investigated as Britain's Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and his objections to the use by the UK government of information gained by the Uzbek authorities through torture.
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk
Outlawed Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the 'War on Terror'
Posted May 16th, 2007 by dougzilla
WITNESS and 14 Non-Profit Organizations Worldwide
26 min 50 sec - 28-Jun-2006
www.witness.org
Rep. Rohrabacher: ‘I Hope It’s Your Families That Suffer’ From A Terrorist Attack
Posted April 25th, 2007 by dougzilla
please see original article @ thinkprogress.org
Posted by Nico April 24, 2007 10:32 am
This is pretty scary stuff! All that is missing here is Rohrabacher wearing an arm band with a swaztika.
Medical Ethics and the Interrogation of Guantanamo 063
Posted April 17th, 2007 by dougzilla
Medical Ethics and the Interrogation of Guantanamo 063
by Steven Miles
www.bioethics.net
2007. The American Journal of Bioethics 7(4):5
Abstract