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Senate Is Set to Require White House to Account for Secret Prisons

Posted on December 16, 2005 by Team VCS

The Senate is poised to approve a measure that would require the Bush administration to provide Congress with its most specific and extensive accounting about the secret prison system established by the Central Intelligence Agency to house terrorism suspects.     The … Continue reading →

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House Defies Bush and Backs McCain on Detainee Torture

Posted on December 15, 2005 by Team VCS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 – In an unusual bipartisan rebuke to the Bush administration, the House on Wednesday overwhelmingly endorsed Senator John McCain’s measure to bar cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners in American custody anywhere in the world. Although the … Continue reading →

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To Halt Abuses, U.S. Will Inspect Jails Run by Iraq

Posted on December 15, 2005 by Team VCS

American military officers will inspect hundreds of detention centers and embed with Iraqi police commando units and other Interior Ministry forces to try to halt widespread abuses uncovered by raids on two Iraqi-run detention centers in Baghdad in the last … Continue reading →

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Bush Accepts Torture Ban, Agrees to McCain Amendment

Posted on December 15, 2005 by Team VCS

The White House and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) reached agreement today on a measure that would ban torture and limit interrogation tactics in U.S. detention facilities, a provision that the Bush administration had strongly resisted but that received broad support … Continue reading →

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Britain’s Top Court Rules Information Gotten by Torture Is Never Admissible Evidence

Posted on December 10, 2005 by Team VCS

Britain’s Top Court Rules Information Gotten by Torture Is Never Admissible Evidence LONDON, United Kingdom, December 8, 2005 – Britain’s highest court thrust itself into the middle of a roiling international debate on Thursday, declaring that evidence obtained through torture – no … Continue reading →

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British Court Rules against Evidence Gained in Torture

Posted on December 9, 2005 by Team VCS

Thrusting itself into the middle of a stormy international debate, Britain’s highest court declared today that evidence obtained through torture – no matter who had done the torturing – was not admissible in British courts. It also said that Britain … Continue reading →

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Bush’s Sacred Terror

Posted on December 9, 2005 by Team VCS

Bush’s Sacred Terror The much-belated, poll-prompted outcry of a few U.S. elected officials against the widespread use of torture by the Bush administration — following years of silent acquiescence in the face of incontrovertible evidence of deliberate atrocity — is … Continue reading →

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Rice Signals Shift in Interrogation Policy

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Team VCS

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave the Bush administration’s most comprehensive accounting yet of U.S. rules on treatment of prisoners in the war on terrorism Wednesday, but her assurances left loopholes for practices that could be akin to torture. Rice … Continue reading →

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Rumsfeld questions abuse prevention

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Team VCS

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has questioned a policy that requires US military personnel who witness abuse of detainees in Iraqi custody to take “all reasonable actions” to stop or prevent it, a spokesman said. Mr Rumsfeld seemed taken aback … Continue reading →

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US credibility gap in Europe

Posted on December 7, 2005 by Team VCS

Not again. Just when the deep freeze in US relations with some European countries is thawing, a cold front blows in. Once more, it originates in the war on terrorism, but this time it’s not about invading Iraq, but about … Continue reading →

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