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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Elisa Massamino speaks on torture

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Torture, the Constitution and Solitary Confinement: A Preview of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report Elisa Massamino  Presid...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Scott Horton speaks in Princeton June 2

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Torture, Wikileaks and State Secrecy: Did torture help or hinder finding Osama bin Laden? Scott Horton International Attorney-at-Law & ...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Letter to the Editor re torture debate

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That there is a torture debate in this country to be revived by bin Laden's killing is itself a measure of how far we have strayed from ...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

The Secret Policeman's Balls

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Amnesty International benefit performances by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Neil Innes, Peter Cook...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Anti-torture protest at Rumsfeld's book tour launch

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There were actually seven protesters in total demonstrating at the Constitution Center last night. Thanks to Peter Crimmins of WHYY for the ...
Friday, October 1, 2010

Noam Chomsky: Crimes Are Crimes

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Noam Chomsky Signs World Can't Wait 's Crimes Are Crimes Statement No Matter Who Does Them.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Participate in the End the Blockade of Gaza postcard action!

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More than 1.5 million Palestinian men, women, and children have been trapped in the Gaza Strip for more than three years. In addition to res...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

ACLU Torture Report

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Read the ACLU's Torture Report , with contributions by Salon's Glenn Greenwald, featured below (warning: disturbing images).
Monday, June 21, 2010

"The Obama administration and its pundit-defenders"

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By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, June 21, 2010: Even in the context of America's wretched civil liberties abuses over the last decade, the...
Monday, May 24, 2010

"Lawrence Wilkerson, from Bush administration insider to fierce critic"

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Radio Times , NPR/WHYY, May 24, 2010: "Lawrence B. Wilkerson is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to Unit...
Sunday, May 23, 2010

"Cries from the Past: Torture's Ugly Echoes"

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By H. P. Albarelli Jr. and Jeffrey Kaye, truthout.org, May 23, 2010: In a superb op-ed, written by Leonard S. Rubenstein and Stephen N. Xena...

"Doctors Without Morals"

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By Leonard S. Rubenstein and Stephen N. Xenakis, New York Times, February 28, 2010: After five years of investigation, the Justice Departmen...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

"DIA and the Black Jail at Bagram"

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By Scott Horton, Harper's , May 17, 2010: Marc Ambinder reports that the secret prison at the periphery of Bagram is actually operated ...
Friday, May 14, 2010

"Blueprint for Accountability," June 7, NYU

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Culture Project presents the second installment of its groundbreaking "Blueprint for Accountability" series at NYU Skirball Cente...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Torture Timeline and Document Dump

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from emptywheel at firedoglake: http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/timeline-collection/torture-tape-timeline/ http://emptywheel.firedoglake.c...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

"The Response" movie

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Starring Aasif Mandvi, Kate Mulgrew, and Peter Riegert; directed by Adam Rodgers; written and produced by Sig Libowitz. "The response m...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

"Iraq: Detainees Describe Torture in Secret Jail"

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Human Rights Watch, April 27, 2010: "Detainees in a secret Baghdad detention facility were hung upside-down, deprived of air, kicked, ...

June is Torture Awareness Month

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The National Religious Campaign Against Torture is already gearing up for two primary efforts: Passing federal legislation granting the Inte...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Glenn Greenwald & Larry Siems re the Torture Report

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"Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald and Torture Report author Larry Siems discuss the Torture Report , an online, interactive website that...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

"Bush Insider Reveals Guantanamo Deception: Hundreds of Innocents Jailed"

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By Bill Quigley, opednews.com, April 20, 2010: Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, provid...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

"Guantánamo Habeas Week: Exposing Torture, Misconceptions and Government Incompetence"

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By Andy Worthington, April 19, 2010: In an attempt to raise awareness of the importance of the rulings being made in US courts on the habeas...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Emptywheel's series begins

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"'High Side' Cables and FOIA Responses," April 8, 2010: As you’ll no doubt understand over the next week or so, bmaz and I...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010

"Guantanamo: Beyond the Law"

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"An eight-month McClatchy investigation of the detention system created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has found that the U.S. im...
Thursday, April 1, 2010

"Court asked to decide: Was Rumsfeld a torturer?"

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By Nat Hentoff, March 26, 2010: . . . [I]n an unexpected and historic ruling on March 5 of this year, federal District Judge Wayne Andersen ...

"US Recants Claims on 'High-Value' Detainee Abu Zubaydah"

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By Jason Leopold, truthout.org, March 30, 2010: The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration...
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