ACLU Torture Report

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

Glenn Greenwald & Larry Siems re the Torture Report

"Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald and Torture Report author Larry Siems discuss the Torture Report, an online, interactive website that is building a documentary record of the Bush administration torture program."

"America's regression" re torture

By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, December 3, 2009.

"Ex-Islamic radicals on what motivates -- and impedes -- extremism"

By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, November 16, 2009. Read about the role of Amnesty International.

"British High Court rejects U.S./British cover-up of torture evidence"

By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, October 17, 2009.

"A historian's account of Democrats and Bush-era war crimes"

By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, October 8, 2009.

"Victory on preventive detention law: in context"

By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, September 24, 2009.

"Bagram: The sham of closing Guantanamo"

By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, September 15, 2009.

"Obama appointee previews the imminent preventive detention debate"

By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, September 10, 2009.

"Major ruling against Ashcroft highlights evils of preventive detention"

By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, September 5, 2009.

"New report contradicts central Obama claim for preventive detention"

"New report contradicts central Obama claim for preventive detention" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com, July 23, 2009.

"First steps taken to implement preventive detention, military commissions"

"First steps taken to implement preventive detention, military commissions," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, July 21, 2009.

Glenn Greenwald re McClatchy article below

"The significance of McClatchy's act of journalism" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com, July 9, 2009.

"The suppressed fact: Deaths by U.S. torture"

"The suppressed fact: Deaths by U.S. torture" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com, June 30, 2009.

. . . there is an important effort underway -- as part of the ACLU Accountability Project -- to correct a critically important deficiency in the public debate over torture and accountability. So often, the premise of media discussions of torture is that "torture" is something that was confined to a single tactic (waterboarding) and used only on three "high-value" detainees accused of being high-level Al Qaeda operatives. The reality is completely different.

The interrogation and detention regime implemented by the U.S. resulted in the deaths of over 100 detainees in U.S. custody -- at least. While some of those deaths were the result of "rogue" interrogators and agents, many were caused by the methods authorized at the highest levels of the Bush White House, including extreme stress positions, hypothermia, sleep deprivation and others. Aside from the fact that they cause immense pain, that's one reason we've always considered those tactics to be "torture" when used by others -- because they inflict serious harm, and can even kill people. Those arguing against investigations and prosecutions -- that we Look to the Future, not the Past -- are thus literally advocating that numerous people get away with murder. . . .