Physicians for Human Rights: More Torture Investigation Needed

In an eight page paper entitled, Aiding Torture: Health Professionals' Ethics and Human Rights Violations Revealed in the May 2004 CIA Inspector General's Report, Physicians for Human Rights...

Enhanced Interrogation Techniques - A Rose By Any Other Name

Guantanamo Prison Camp is in the news again today with talk revolving aroung "enhanced interrogation techniques".  Enhanced interrogation techniques are a bafflgab to deflect the harsh reality of...

Cheney Defended Torture to Some Lawmakers in Key Meetings

Former Vice President Richard 'Dick' Cheney is reported to have attended at least four CIA briefing meetings, defending the techniques that have been revealed in the torture memos, at key points in...

Nancy Pelosi v CIA: Water-boarding

Water-boarding, a torture technique, authorized by Bush administration for use over POWs is on the crossfire nowadays. Also, Speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, is the center of attention regarding this issue. "Nancy...

VP Dick Cheney's Office Suggested Waterboarding Iraqi Prisoner

Former producer and investigative reporter for NBC News, Robert Windrem, reports that two U.S. intelligence officials confirmed the office of Vice President Cheney suggested waterboarding one of Saddam...

Former FBI Interrogator Dispels Claim of Usefulness of Torture

Ali Soufan, former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interrogator, instrumental in gathering information from one of the so called high profile prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Zubaydah,...

Senate Judiciary Hearing on Torture May 13, 2009 at 10:00AM EST

The Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts begins a hearing entitled What Went Wrong: Torture and the Office of Legal Council in the Bush Administration. Among those...

Op-Ed : The Torture Moment

The author of this article offers that the media has not squarely shouldered their responsibility regarding the coverage of allegations of possible criminal activity that has arisen since the release of the so...

Abu Ghraib Guards Say Memos Prove Them To Be Scapegoats

Initially, in 2004, when photos of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib in Iraq surfaced, the Bush administration declared the actions shown in the photos to be the work of a few "bad apples" . Since the release...

Where Does the United States Go From Here?

To say that President Obama has been conflicted on how to proceed in dealing with the previous Bush administration's questionable journey down the path allowing torture,...

Op-Ed : Where 'Those Methods' Lead

All during the decisions leading up to and after the release of documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) concerning documents, currently referred to as the 'torture...

Doctors Charge CIA Torture Memos Misuse Sleep Deprivation Data

Scientists whose work has been revealed to be cited in the recently released Bush administration torture memos, object to the use of their work, citing, for example, that periods of sleep...

9/11 Commission Director Dissented on Torture Memo Directives

Philip Zelikow, who acted as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's adviser and as a policy representative to an NSC policy committee on intelligence and terrorism issues during the Bush administration, has...

USAF Special Forces Acted As CIA Contracted Torture Advisers

The United States Air Force's (USAF) Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) was founded in 1947 and according to the website, Gosere.com, states : Our mission is to prepare aircrew and high risk...

CIA Contracted Psychologists Approved Torture Methods Used

Referring to the CIA's practice of an " .... increased pressure phase" , this article describes limiting prisoners' human contact to two persons, the CIA interrogator and a psychologist. Methods of...