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Yearly Archives: 2008
Report Questions Pentagon Accounts of Use of Torture on Enemy Prisoners of War
June 17, 2008 – A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials began assembling lists of harsh interrogation techniques in the summer of 2002 for use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay and that those officials later cited memos from … Continue reading
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Army Contract Officer Ousted After Refusing to Pay $1 Billion in Questionable KBR Bills
June 17, 2008, Washington, DC – The Army official who managed the Pentagon’s largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying more than $1 billion in questionable charges to KBR, the … Continue reading
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Disabled American Veterans Testify that DoD Violates New Disability Severance Payment Law
June 18, 2008 – At the end of a boisterous House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing in which lawmakers lambasted Veterans Affairs Department and Pentagon officials for not meeting various deadlines for improving care for wounded combat troops, Disabled American Veterans … Continue reading
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Medical Exams Prove Torture by U.S. of Prisoners of War in Iraq and Guantanamo
June 18, 2008, Washington, DC – Medical examinations of former terrorism suspects held by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found evidence of torture and other abuse that resulted in serious injuries and … Continue reading
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June 18 VCS in the News: Congress and VCS Demand a Stop to Experimental Drug Testing on Veterans with PTSD
“VA should have done a better job protecting the human rights of our veterans,” said Paul Sullivan of VCS. June 18, 2008 – The Chair of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee is calling for an immediate suspension of government tests … Continue reading
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June 17, VCS Weekly Update: Bush Administration Overruled by Supreme Court Again – Three Strikes, You’re Out
June 16, 2008 – This week’s update contains important news about a new Supreme Court ruling, about a special VCS report, and about our landmark lawsuit against VA. First, VCS applauds our Supreme Court for restoring Habeas Corpus last week. On … Continue reading
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Editorial Column: Bush Detention Policy Seemed All About Him
June 17, 2008, Washington – President Bush is in the midst of a farewell tour of some of the nations that like him the least – from oft-ridiculed France, which his defense secretary derided as part of “old Europe,” to … Continue reading
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Veterans Risk Ruin While Awaiting VA Disability Benefit Checks
June 17, 2008, San Antonio, TX – His lifelong dream of becoming a soldier had, in the end, come to this for Isaac Stevens: 28, penniless, in a wheelchair, fending off the sexual advances of another man in a homeless … Continue reading
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Editorial Column: Blackwater’s Bright Future
June 16, 2008 – From California to Iraq, business has never been better for the controversial private security firm Blackwater Worldwide. Company President Gary Jackson recently boasted that Blackwater has “had two successive quarters of unprecedented growth.” Owner Erik Prince … Continue reading
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US Soldier Refuses to Report for Active Duty in Iraq
June 15, 2008, Washington – A month after US army reservist Matthis Chiroux publicly refused to deploy to Iraq, the former sergeant on Sunday set himself up for possible prosecution by failing to report for active duty with his unit … Continue reading
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