British Soldiers accused of Torturing and Executing 20 Civilians
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Showing newest posts with label torture. Show older posts
Showing newest posts with label torture. Show older posts
Monday, 25 February 2008
Saturday, 2 February 2008
Abuse in Iraq
Troops accused of "off-the-scale" Iraq abuse
01 FEB 2008 16:08 GMT
01 FEB 2008 16:08 GMT
| LONDON (Reuters) - A lawyer representing nine Iraqi civilians accused British troops on Friday of "off the scale" torture and abuse in Iraq, and the Ministry of Defence said it was re-investigating the case. Full Article |
Wednesday, 3 October 2007
Secret US endorsement of 'torture'
Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations --Never in history had the United States authorized such tactics. --Deputy Attorney General Comey told colleagues at Justice that they would all be "ashamed" when the world eventually learned of their secret. --With virtually no experience in interrogations, the C.I.A. had constructed its program in a few harried months by consulting Egyptian and Saudi intelligence officials and copying Soviet interrogation methods long used in training American servicemen to withstand capture. --
The agency officers questioning [torturing] prisoners constantly sought advice from lawyers thousands of miles away. 04 Oct 2007 When the Justice Department publicly declared torture "abhorrent" in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush regime appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations. But soon after Alberto R. Gonzales’s arrival as attorney general in February 2005, the Justice Department issued another opinion, this one in secret. It was a very different document, according to officials briefed on it, an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency. The new opinion, the officials said, for the first time provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, including head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures... Later that year, as Congress moved toward outlawing "cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment, the Justice Department issued another secret opinion, one most lawmakers did not know existed, current and former officials said.
The agency officers questioning [torturing] prisoners constantly sought advice from lawyers thousands of miles away. 04 Oct 2007 When the Justice Department publicly declared torture "abhorrent" in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush regime appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations. But soon after Alberto R. Gonzales’s arrival as attorney general in February 2005, the Justice Department issued another opinion, this one in secret. It was a very different document, according to officials briefed on it, an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency. The new opinion, the officials said, for the first time provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, including head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures... Later that year, as Congress moved toward outlawing "cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment, the Justice Department issued another secret opinion, one most lawmakers did not know existed, current and former officials said.
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