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Obama Thanks U.K. for Concealing Evidence of U.S.-Sponsored Torture

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What Nobody Wants To Know About Somalia And Why; And What That Means
Friday, October 03, 2008

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The New York Times

September 25, 2008
Bush Aides Linked to Talks on Interrogations
By MARK MAZZETTI

WASHINGTON - Senior White House officials played a central role in deliberations in the spring of 2002 about whether the Central Intelligence Agency could legally use harsh interrogation techniques while questioning an operative of Al Qaeda, Abu Zubaydah ( Read more... )

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House gives go-ahead to sue Iraq over torture

By JIM ABRAMS - 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former POWs and civilians who were tortured or held hostage during the 1991 Gulf War could pursue lawsuits against Iraq under legislation the House has approved.

The White House, saying the bill would threaten economic and political progress in Iraq, threatened ( Read more... )

Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2008-09-12 14:46.

* Criminal Prosecution

By David Swanson

Here's an interesting self-defense with a gloss of principle and detatchment.

Indictments Are Not The Best Revenge
By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ, Wall Street Journal
September 12, 2008

Dershowitz or whoever wrote the headline begins with the pretense that ( Read more... )

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Only Human
By Kathleen Peratis
Thu. Sep 04, 2008

Georgia has been America’s darling in the Caucasus since its charismatic and telegenic young president, Mikheil Saakashvili, took over from the nasty old Russian-style despot Eduard Shevardnadze in the fall of 2003, in what came to be called the Rose Revolution (because Saakashvili carried a rose, and ( Read more... )

Volume 55, Number 14 · September 25, 2008
Official American Sadism
By Anthony Lewis
Guantanamo: Beyond the Law
a series of five articles by Tom Lasseter

in the McClatchy Newspapers, June 15-19, 2008, available at www.mcclatchydc.com/detainees
The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight ( Read more... )

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