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Oct 23, Torture Update: Confessions of a Former Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp Prosecutor

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Team VCS

The inside story of a military lawyer who discovered stunning injustice at the heart of the Bush administration’s military commissions. October 23, 2008 – When Army Lt. Col. Darrell Vandeveld began his work in May 2007 as a prosecutor at … Continue reading →

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The Torture Time Bomb

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Team VCS

October 18, 2008 – As the US presidential election reaches a climax against the background of the financial crisis, another silent, dark, time bomb of an issue hangs over the two candidates: torture. For now, there seems to be a … Continue reading →

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Once-Secret Memos Document How White House Endorsed CIA Waterboarding and Torture

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Team VCS

October 15, 2008 – The White House issued two secret memos endorsing the CIA’s use of waterboarding and other forms of torture on detainees, according to a news report published today in the Washington Post. The memos, which show that … Continue reading →

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Oct 15, Torture News: White House Wrote Secret Memos Endorsing CIA Torture Tactics

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Team VCS

Waterboarding Got White House Nod October 15, 2008 – The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency’s use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects … Continue reading →

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Guantanamo Prosecutor Who Quit Had ‘Grave Misgivings’ About Fairness

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Team VCS

October 12, 2008 – Darrel J. Vandeveld was in despair. The hard-nosed lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, a self-described conformist praised by his superiors for his bravery in Iraq, had lost faith in the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals … Continue reading →

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Oct 9, Civil Liberties News: Recently Releaed Government Documents Show President Bush Ordered Illegal Torture Here in America Against U.S. Citizens

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Team VCS

October 8, 2008 – According to newly released military documents, the Navy applied lawless Guantánamo protocols in detention facilities on American soil. The documents, which include regular emails between brig officers and others in the chain of command, uncover new … Continue reading →

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Iraq Veteran Relays the Trauma, Tragedy of War

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Team VCS

October 7, 2008 – Tuesday night, Iraq War veteran Kristofer Goldsmith tried to describe what a dead human body smells like to a wide-eyed audience of more than 50 students, professors and community members. “I can tell you that it … Continue reading →

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Oct 7, VCS Mentioned in Editorial Column About Torture: Even Blind Justice Sees Through the Bush Administration

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Team VCS

October 6, 2008 – Justice may be blind, sometimes deaf and too often dumb, but every once in a while it still gets something right. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently ordered the government to … Continue reading →

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One Million Weapons to Iraq; Many go Missing

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Team VCS

September 22, 2008 – Clandestine gun suppliers, funded by the U.S. and Iraqi governments, have flooded Iraq with a million weapons since 2003, charges a new Amnesty International investigation. Because of faulty or non-existent government tracking systems, many of those … Continue reading →

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Veterans for Peace Occupy National Archives, Call for Arrest of Bush and Cheney for War Crimes

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Team VCS

“Arresting Bush and Cheney for war crimes will honor our oath to the Constitution,” veterans say. September 23, 2008 – On Tuesday morning, September 23, 7:30am, at the front of the National Archives Building on Constitution Ave. in Washington, D.C., … Continue reading →

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