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Ben Greenberg on
April 26, 2009
On Wednesday, just after the Senate Armed Services Committee released its report on the Bush Administration’s torture program, Firedoglake hosted a live online chat with Nathaniel Raymond, Director of PHR’s Campaign Against Torture. Firedoglake’s Christy Hardin Smith introduced the online discussion, saying:
As the details spill out, again and again two names keep appearing — James Mitchell and [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Torture
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By
Ben Greenberg on
April 22, 2009
Last night, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released a report, developed over two years, detailing the origins and implementation of the Bush Administration’s torture program (PDF, 15 MB). The SASC report is the latest and most comprehensive account of the Bush Administration’s regime of torture and the central role health professionals played. Senator Carl [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged abu ghraib, afghanistan, alberty gonzales, bush administration, carl levin, department of defence, dick cheney, gtmo, guantanamo bay, joint personnel recovery agency, jpra, justice department, paul wolfowitz, president george w. bush, psychologists, sasc, secretary of defense, senate armed services committee, steven reisner, white house counsel
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By
Josephine Lee on
April 17, 2009
On April 14, Major General Antonio M. Taguba (USA, Ret.), the commander of the official 2004 US Army investigation into the Abu Ghraib detainee abuse scandal, made a rare public appearance at Harvard Law School to give a lecture sponsored by the Harvard Human Rights Program, the Human Rights Advocates at Harvard Law, and Physicians [...]
Posted in Custody, Events, Torture
| Tagged abu ghraib, accountability, bagram airbase, broken laws broken lives, bush administration, guantanamo bay, harvard human rights program, harvard law school, major general antonio taguba, nathaniel raymond, us government, us military
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By
Ben Greenberg on
April 12, 2009
Please join Physicians for Human Rights and Retired US Army Major General Antonio Mario Taguba this Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 4:00-6:15 PM for an exciting afternoon of discussion, debate and dialogue on torture by US forces in the war against terror — and how we can hold accountable those who committed these heinous crimes. The discussion will be [...]
Posted in Custody, Events, Torture
| Tagged abu ghraib, aclu, anotonio taguba, austin hall, broken laws broken lives, harvard law school, human rights program, national security and law association, sarah kalloch, taguba report, us army
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By
Scott Allen, MD on
March 16, 2009
Mark Danner, an attorney and journalist, revealed in yesterday’s New York Review of Books never-before-seen sections of a confidential International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) report detailing the treatment of detainees held at the CIA “black site” interrogation facilities. Among the many disturbing facts in Danner’s article, the ICRC report contains critical new [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged abu ghraib, abu zubaydah, black sites, capitol hill, central intelligence agency, cia, Guantanamo, health professionals, icrc, international committee of the red cross, mark danner, new york review of books
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By
Frank Donaghue on
February 23, 2009
Last week Major General Antonio Taguba (US Army, Ret.) joined PHR and a bipartisan group of civil society groups and national security experts, including Judge William Sessions, the former Director of the FBI, in calling for a national commission to investigate the torture of detainees by US personnel.
General Taguba, the head of the US Army’s [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged abu ghraib, accountability, antonio taguba, broken laws broken lives, compensation, fbi, psycho-social assistance, salon.com, william sessions
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