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Cruel Distortion: ‘We Do Not Torture’? Is the President Serious?
At times President Bush inspires a kind of awe. It is a rare individual who can repeat obvious falsehoods with so much tenacity and conviction that millions of listeners eventually mistake them for the truth. The president was in top … Continue reading
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Report Warned on CIA’s Tactics in Interrogation
A classified report issued last year by the Central Intelligence Agency’s inspector general warned that interrogation procedures approved by the C.I.A. after the Sept. 11 attacks might violate some provisions of the international Convention Against Torture, current and former intelligence … Continue reading
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White House Pushes on for Torture Exemption as House Stalls Vote
The president and vice president continue an effort to prod lawmakers into freeing the Central Intelligence Agency from restrictions on torturing detainees in its custody. The pressure comes as House Republicans last week delayed a vote on a measure prohibiting … Continue reading
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Troops to Call for Independent Commission on Torture
Media Advisory Troops to Call for Independent Commission on Torture;Press Conference on Open Letter signed by 3,700 veterans and family members CONTACT: Charles Sheehan-Miles, 202-558-4553INTERVIEWS AVAILABLE Nearly four years after the beginning of the War on Terror, the U.S. continues … Continue reading
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Supreme court to review terrorism military trials
The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether President George W. Bush has the power to create military tribunals to put Guantanamo prisoners on trial for war crimes, an important test of the administration’s policy in … Continue reading
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The Bush Effect: U.S. Military Involvement in Latin America Rises, Development and Humanitarian Aid Fall
While President George W. Bush is in Latin America to push his controversial free trade agenda, there is another type of trade to be concerned about. U.S. military aid, training and arms sales to the region have all increased sharply … Continue reading
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Former Powell aide links Cheney’s office to abuse directives
Vice President Dick Cheney’s office was responsible for directives that led to U.S. soldiers’ abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, a former top State Department official said Thursday. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, then the … Continue reading
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Senators Take On Bush With Torture Ban Proposal
Girding for a potential fight with the Bush administration, supporters of an explicit ban on torture of prisoners of war by U.S. interrogators threatened Friday to include the prohibition in nearly every bill the Senate considers until it becomes law. … Continue reading
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Red Cross Seeks Access to CIA Prison
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Thursday for access to all foreign terrorism suspects held by the United States after a report of a covert CIA prison system for al Qaeda captives. The Washington Post said … Continue reading
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The Torture Test
The next several days will show whether our Congress has slipped its moral moorings. Seldom have moral lines been so clearly drawn. The issue is whether American armed forces and intelligence personnel should be permitted or forbidden to torture detainees. … Continue reading
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