Mark Danner's US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites (New York Review of Books, Vol. 56, No. 6, April 9, 2009) is based on a leaked, presumably, copy of the ``ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody'' by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The Prez:
The United States does not torture. It's against our ( Read more... )

What Jennifer Daskal of Human Rights Watch had to say about the Hicks "trial".

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/01/opinion/eddaskal.php

Were that it was an April Fools' joke.

From Time magazine, 10 November: "Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse"
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1557842,00.htmlGermany prosecutors acting on behalf of 12 Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisoners charge him and eleven others with, er, something, possibly "war crimes and related offenses ( Read more... )

The Emperor's inquisitor says:

Asked in the radio interview whether he would agree that the debate over terrorist interrogations and water boarding was "a little silly", Mr Cheney responded: "I do agree". (Financial Times, 27 October 2006)

I wonder, in a morbid way, just how much useful information KSM provided before and after water boarding.