Four Californians are accused of kidnapping a 16-year-old boy and torturing him for nearly a year before he escaped captivity wearing only boxer shorts and a shackle on his ankle, according to an indictment released Wednesday ( Read more... )

From the Democratic Party platform, as quoted in Reason magazine:

"We will not ship away prisoners in the dead of night to be tortured in far off countries, or detain without trial or charge prisoners who can and should be brought to justice for their crimes, or maintain a network of secret prisons to jail people beyond the reach of the law. We ( Read more... )

Great WWII poster against torture.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/02/from-roosevelt.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/08/AR2008020803156.html

Last week, much to my dismay, government officials testified before Congress that the United States has used the interrogation technique known as ( Read more... )

George Bush Senior, on the first Gulf War

Bush: “My favorite picture is a picture of American soldiers surrounding a guy whose been in a foxhole, Iraqi soldier, and the American guy says, we’re not going to harm you, we’re American soldiers.” Read more... )

From the President's official Press Release:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/10/print/20071017.html

"Q Thank you, sir. A simple question ( Read more... )

WASHINGTON -- President Bush was presented with a letter Monday signed by 50 high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program urging a halt to "violations of the human rights" of terror suspects held by the United States.http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ( Read more... )

“[E]very morning I pick up a paper and some authoritarian figure, some person somewhere, is using Guantanamo to hide their own misdeeds,” Powell said. “[W]e have shaken the belief that the world had in America’s justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open… We don’t need it, and it’s causing us far more damage than any good we get for it ( Read more... )

"Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner] ... I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct ( Read more... )

A good (if somewhat political) online petition to outlaw evidence gained by torture, and give a decently fair trial to "unlawful combatants". I signed it, and maybe a million more signatures will help convince some senators and representatives to do the right thing.http://www.restore-habeas