• Watchdog: War on Terrorism Leads to Rights Abuses

  By Tim Cocks Kampala – Torture, beatings, executions, racist stereotyping and intrusive surveillance are among the...

   

• House deals blow to CIA rendition

  House votes to end CIA rendition program, ACLU says RAW STORY A little noticed prohibition in the Democrats’ $50 billion...

   

• Ukraine link to CIA secret prisons probed

  EU says airstrip, base used in extraordinary renditions By JAN SLIVA ASSOCIATED PRESS An EU investigator said Wednesday he...

   

• Is Waterboarding Torture?

  I’d like to digress from my usual analysis of insurgent strategy and tactics to speak out on an issue of grave importance...

   

• I Witnessed ‘Waterboarding’ — And, Yes, It is Torture

  Memo to Media: I Witnessed ‘Waterboarding’ — And, Yes, It is Torture Four decades ago, as a reporter in...

   

• House Panel Gets Earful On Waterboarding

  In Spite Of Bickering In D.C., Experts Say Interrogation Method Is Torture, Must Never Be Used (CBS/AP) A hearing on torture...

   

• The FBI’s Right To Threaten Torture

  James Bovard A federal appeals court has concluded that an FBI agent must go to trial on charges he coerced a false confession...

   

• So, what actually is Waterboarding?

  By J A Blacker MSc IMI,  Science Correspondent RINF Alternative News As any good terrorist state knows all too well, the...

   

• US advisor: Waterboarding is torture

  By Leonard Doyle When the US military trains soldiers to resist interrogation, it uses a torture technique from the Middle...

   

• CIA director defends torture

  PAMELA HESS CIA Director Michael Hayden defended his agency’s interrogation practices Tuesday as political pressure...

   

• Why America Sent Someone to Be Tortured in Syria

  Condoleeza Rice loses her memory at the most convenient times–call it diplomatic Alzheimers. Asked why America sent an...

   

• Who Watches the CIA Watchers?

  Katrina vanden Heuvel In the cloak and dagger, smoke and hall of mirrors that is the CIA, we have more evidence that it’s...

   

• Sorry about the torture; we thought you were one of the terrorists

  By A. Barton Hinkle Here’s the problem with Guantanamo Bay – and secret CIA prisons on foreign soil – in a nutshell:...

   

• Jimmy Carter: U.S. Tortures Prisoners

  AP The U.S. tortures prisoners in violation of international law, former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday, adding that...

   

• US denies breaking torture laws after memos exposed

  Kim Landers In the United States, the Bush Administration is again under fire for secretly authorising torture tactics during...

   

• Democrats Want to See Torture Memo

   By LARA JAKES JORDANAssociated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – House Democrats demanded Thursday to see two secret...

   

• A Legacy of Legitimizing Torture

  By Robert Scheer The resignation of the torturer in chief was noted by his patron, the president, as an unfortunate day for...

   

• Castro: Cuba not cashing U.S. Guantanamo rent checks

  Yahoo [via Granma International] flamesong 20th August 2007 The United States pays Cuba $4,085 a month in rent for the controversial...

   

• Psychologists in denial about torture

  By Amy Goodman This weekend, the American Psychological Association rejected a moratorium that would have prevented its member...

   

• New Yorker: CIA Tactics Amount To Torture

  The Central Intelligence Agency used “enhanced interrogation techniques” synonymous with torture while interrogating...

   

• CIA techniques cause serious mental damage

  Granma International flamesong Interrogation techniques used by the CIA on alleged terrorists can cause serious mental damage...

   

• Bush’s torture ban is full of loopholes

  The president has issued an executive order to stop the CIA from using torture, but the ban is unenforceable. By David Cole Once...

   

• The CIA’s torture teachers

  Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics — likely with...

   

• Exposed: The Anatomy of a Torture Scandal

  By Onnesha Roychoudhuri Alternet Not long before Lynndie England ever stepped foot in Iraq, long before she became the poster-child...

   

• Terror suspect alleges torture for confession

  Lolita C. Baldor A suspected Saudi terrorist testified at a military hearing that he was tortured into confessing he was...