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Ben Greenberg on
June 25, 2010
UPDATE: New York State residents should call their state Senators TODAY to urge them to vote for Senate Bill 4495.
In all likelihood when the sun is up we will see the New York Senate vote on whether or not to pass a groundbreaking anti-torture bill, known as the Gottfried Bill, which would prohibit health care [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Take Action, Torture
| Tagged central intelligence agency, cia, new york state assembly, new york state senate, new york times, office of human research protections, ohrp, red cross, richard gottfried
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By
Frank Donaghue on
June 11, 2010
PHR’s new report, Experiments in Torture, has sent shock waves through the conscience of America this week. This report reveals evidence indicating that the Bush administration may have conducted illegal and unethical human experimentation and research on detainees in CIA custody.
This research, if proven to have occurred, could violate the Geneva Conventions, The Common Rule, [...]
Posted in Custody, Take Action, Torture
| Tagged amnesty international usa, bill of rights defense committee, center for constitutional rights, center for victims of torture, central intelligence agency, cia, common rule, experiments in torture, geneva conventions, Human RIghts Watch, international rehabilatation council for torture victims, national religious campaign against torture, nuremberg code, office of human research protections, ohrp, psychologists for social responsibility
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By
Ben Greenberg on
August 31, 2009
A team of PHR doctors authored the new white paper, “Aiding Torture: Health Professionals’ Ethics and Human Rights Violations Demonstrated in the May 2004 Inspector General’s Report.”
The report details how the CIA relied on medical expertise to rationalize and carry out abusive and unlawful interrogations. It also refers to aggregate collection of data on detainees’ [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged allen keller, bellevue/nyu program for survivors of torture, central intelligence agency, cia, confinement, guns, human experimentation, inspector general, interrogation, medical ethics, mock executions, physicians, power drills, psychologists, scott allen, steven reisner, threats, vincent iacopino, walling, waterboarding
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By
Frank Donaghue on
August 25, 2009
Thousands of supporters like you have called for the Obama Administration to investigate torture and other detainee abuses. Our voices have been heard.
Yesterday, the Obama Administration took actions that demonstrate a commitment to ending detainee abuse and beginning a process to hold accountable those responsible for the torture regime.
Attorney General Holder’s decision to appoint a [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged afghanistan, barack obama, break them down, broken laws broken lives, central intelligence agency, cia, dasht-e-leili, department of justice, eric holder, inspector general, leave no marks
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By
Ben Greenberg on
July 13, 2009
Embedded video from CNN Video
In an interview today with Anderson Cooper, President Obama announced that he has ordered his national security team to collect all the facts in the Dasht-e-Leili massacre and apparent US cover-up — a move that Deputy Director Susannah Sirkin has praised in a statement earlier today.
President Obama’s comments differ from statements made by [...]
Posted in Conflict, Custody, Forensic, General Human Rights, News Coverage, Torture, Video
| Tagged abdul rashid dostum, accountability, afghanistan, AfghanMassGrave.org, anderson cooper, attorney general, barack obama, central intelligence agency, cia, cnn, commission of inquiry, dasht-e-leili, eric holder, ghana, nathaniel raymond, prosecution, sheberghan, Susannah Sirkin, taliban, war crimes, white house
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By
Jared Voss on
July 9, 2009
On June 29, Thom Hartmann, a national progressive talk show host, spent a captivating half-hour discussing the United States’ torture policies under President George W. Bush. A good portion of that segment focused on PHR’s “extaordinary report” Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact, from which he read [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Podcast, Torture
| Tagged broken laws broken lives, bush administration, central intelligence agency, cia, guantanamo bay, radio coverage, Thom Hartmann, Torture
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By
Ben Greenberg on
June 14, 2009
Jane Mayer has published a new article in the The New Yorker today on US torture policy. Mayer’s article centers around her interview with Leon Panetta, the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, under the Obama administration. The article provides an overview of the Obama Administration’s approaches towards and retreats from pursuing accountability for [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Torture
| Tagged central intelligence agency, cia, jane mayer, leon panetta, medical ethics, nathaniel raymond
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By
Ben Greenberg on
May 1, 2009
ABC News reports that psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were paid $1000/day to design and implement the US torture program.
According to current and former government officials, the CIA’s secret waterboarding program was designed and assured to be safe by two well-paid psychologists now working out of an unmarked office building in Spokane, Washington.
Bruce Jessen [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture, Video
| Tagged abc news, abu zubaydah, air force, al qaeda, bruce jessen, central intelligence agency, china, cia, james mitchell, mitchell jessen associates, sere, soviet union, steven kleinman, survival evasion resistance escape, waterboarding
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By
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
| Tagged 9/11, abu ghraib, afghanistan, al qaeda, alberto mora, ama, american medical association, american psychological association, apa, appendix m, army field manual, bagram, barack obama, binyam mohamed, british high court, bruce jessen, carl levin, central intelligence agency, christy hardin smith, cia, daniel baumgartner, david irvine, department of defense, department of justice, diane feinstein, dod, doj, eric holder, firedoglake, geneva convention, gerald gary, gottfried bill, gtmo, how to break a terrorist, interrogation, iraq, isolation, ivan fredericks, james mitchell, japan, jay bybee, jerald ogrisseg, jim haynes, john durham, john yoo, joint personnel recovery agency, jpra, kenzaburo oe, leonard rubenstein, maher arar, major general antonio taguba, matt alexander, medical ethics, nathaniel raymond, npr, nuremberg, nurses, office of legal counsel, office of professional responsibility, olc, phillip zimbardo, physician complicity, physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, robert segal, sasc, senate armed services committee, sensory deprivation, sere tactics, sheldon whitehouse, sleep deprivation, special mission units, stanford prison experiment, steven bradbury, steven kleinman, taliban, us attorney, us congress, vietnam, waterboarding, white house, wwii
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By
Ben Greenberg on
April 23, 2009
Today, on the In These Times website, Fredrick Clarkson hones in on more of what the recently released Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) report reveals about the central role played by psychologists in “in devising, directing and overseeing the torture of prisoners.”
Clarkson writes:
Early in the Senate report, we learn that the SERE program’s adaptation began [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Torture
| Tagged al qaeda, central intelligence agency, cia, fredrick clarkson, gtmo, guantanamo bay, in these times, international committee of the red cross, interrogations, james mitchell, jfcom, john bruce jessen, joint forces command, joint personnel recovery agency, jpra, major charles burney, pens, pentagon, presidential task force on psychological ethics and national security, sasc, senate armed services committee, sere, steven reisner
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