Brennan Placates Congress on Torture, Drones in Confirmation Hearings | Brennan refused to call water-boarding torture, saying he’s ‘not a lawyer’
Brennan Placates Congress on Torture, Drones in Confirmation Hearings
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US Tortured During Bin Laden Hunt, Panetta Admits
US Tortured During Bin Laden Hunt, Panetta Admits | Top official yet to admit to US torture of detainees
CIA Nominee John Brennan Had Detailed Knowledge of Bush-Era Torture
CIA Nominee Had Detailed Knowledge of Bush-Era Torture | Brennan’s nomination exemplifies Bush-Obama continuity
Appeals Court: Tortured US Whistleblowers Can’t Sue
Appeals Court: Tortured US Whistleblowers Can’t Sue | Torturing detainees ‘part of human nature,’ ruling insists
Italy Court Upholds Convictions on CIA Agents for Torture and Rendition Program
Italy's highest court on Wednesday upheld guilty verdicts against 23 Americans for the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian Muslim cleric while he was in Milan, in the first criminal convictions for the US's post-9/11 "extraordinary rendition" program. Following the...
Obama DOJ Closes Probe into Detainee Homicides
Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday that the Justice Department has closed an investigation into the deaths of two detainees held, interrogated, and allegedly tortured by the CIA, sealing the Obama administration's legacy of impunity for Bush-era torture...
US Forcibly Injected Gitmo Detainees With ‘Mind Altering Drugs’
Detainees inside the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay were forcibly injected with powerful "mind altering drugs" and then interrogated, according to a declassified report obtained by Truthout through a Freedom of Information Act Request. Some of the drugs, which...
Destroyed Videos Showed US Torture Victim ‘Vomiting and Screaming’
Destroyed Videos Showed US Torture Victim ‘Vomiting and Screaming’ | 92 hours of secret video ‘very disturbing’
Senate Probe: US Torture Not Working Very Well
Senate Probe: US Torture Not Working Very Well | Little useful evidence, plenty of false leads
Judge Allows CIA, FBI Secrecy on Rendition
A judge in Washington, DC has allowed the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency to keep information secret regarding the complicity of British authorities in extraordinary rendition. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition - an activist group of...
