Silence is Broken

A Disturbance in the Blogosphere: Publishing the UK/US/Uzbekistan Torture Memo. Braving arrest, bloggers have broken the UK’s law of silence with the truth about torture. Bloggers are mass publishing the leaked UK/US/Uzbekistan Torture Memos. The memos are from the...

Eric Schmitt/New York Times: House Defies Bush and Backs McCain on Detainee T...

House Defies Bush and Backs McCain on Detainee Torture  —  WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 - In an unusual bipartisan rebuke to the Bush administration, the House on Wednesday overwhelmingly endorsed Senator John McCain's measure to bar cruel and inhumane treatment of...

U.S. shifts to ban cruelty to detainees abroad (Reuters)

Reuters - The United States, seeking to defuse European criticism over reports of abuse of prisoners, said on Wednesday it had changed its policy on interrogating detainees.

US may make mistakes in 'war on terror': Rice (Reuters)

Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a rare concession to U.S. critics, acknowledged on Tuesday that Washington may make mistakes in its battle against terrorism and promised to put them right if they happened.

CIA "unique" methods not torture: director (Reuters)

Reuters - CIA interrogators use "unique" methods to obtain "vital" information from prisoners, but strictly obey laws against torture, CIA Director Porter Goss said in an interview published on Monday.

Cheney: CIA Needs to be able to Torture

Cheney ... said the administration needed an exemption from any legislation banning "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment in case the president decided one was necessary to prevent a terrorist attack.

Ahmed Abu Ali: American Student to Stand Trial

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors told a jury on Monday that a U.S. man plotted with al Qaeda to kill President George W. Bush but his lawyer said he confessed to such a plot only because he was tortured in a Saudi jail. The lawyers were making their case...