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VCS Weekly Update: Privacy, Torture and DIA Spying on Americans
October 24, 2005 Dear VCS Members and Supporters: Veterans for Common Sense last week joined a coalition of privacy-focused organizations in opposition to a $349 million Pentagon database of 12 million Americans of recruitable-age. Much of the data in the … Continue reading
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Afghanistan: Abuse Charges at Bad Time for White House
Allegations that U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan burned the bodies of Taliban fighters couldn’t have come at a worse time for the Bush administration, already fighting legislation in Congress that would impose standards on the Pentagon’s treatment of detainees. Lurid television … Continue reading
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Why Torture is OK
Imagine that you are on your way to work, coffee in hand, one December morning when three men in United States military uniforms, armed with guns, approach you. They say your name; you acknowledge it. One of them slams you … Continue reading
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Close our torture loophole
Picture this scene: Young prison guards in khaki uniforms and reflecting sunglasses herd a larger group of inmates down a hallway, each prisoner chained to the next by his ankle, each dressed in a shapeless smock that exposed his pale … Continue reading
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One victim’s story
ON each stage of his journey, as he descended further and further into the gulags and torture chambers of the war on terror, Benyam Mohammed al-Habashi was shadowed by British intelligence. The British were there in Karachi when Americans interrogated … Continue reading
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Night And Fog Revisited
Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel, supreme chief of the German armed forces, explained the thinking behind the Nazis’ “Night and Fog” (the term comes from Goethe) decree: “Efficient and enduring intimidation can only be achieved…by measures by which the relatives of … Continue reading
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Guantanamo Process as a Public Danger
The prevailing belief that the procedures at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) protect us because they make it easy to keep “enemy combatants” locked away is misguided. When legal process is not rigorous and convictions are easy to win, the danger is … Continue reading
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When Torture becomes Policy
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government.” Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 President Bush has made it clear … Continue reading
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Humane treatment: The president should not have the flexibility to order the torture or abuse of prisoners.
The United States Congress should not have to pass a law requiring humane treatment of U.S. prisoners. Sadly, a clear requirement is necessary, and the Senate was right to vote 90-9 to provide one. In the war on terror, the … Continue reading
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Guantanamo food strike ‘serious’
Last month, ICRC officials visited the US camp, where some 500 alleged Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters are being held. But spokeswoman Antonella Notari said she could not comment on details of what they had witnessed there. Inmates’ lawyers say some … Continue reading
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