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John Bradshaw on
February 24, 2010
The newly released report by the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR report) shows not only that John Yoo and Jay Bybee created disgracefully flawed legal analysis but also that they tried to justify that reasoning by using bad science. As PHR has previously reported, the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) exploited [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged abu zubaydah, cia, david margolis, department of justice, doj, inspector general's report, jay bybee, john yoo, margolis memorandum, office of legal counsel, office of professional responsibility, olc, opr, professional misconduct, sere, survival evasion resistance escape, us military, 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
April 30, 2009
Judge Baltasar Garzón, an investigating magistrate at the National Court in Madrid, Spain, has announced that he will investigate the US torture program at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Judge Baltasar Garzón will probe the “perpetrators, the instigators, the necessary collaborators and accomplices” to crimes of torture at the prison at the US naval base in southern Cuba, [...]
Posted in Conflict, Torture
| Tagged agence france press, andrew sullivan, baltasar garzón, bush administration, cuba, department of justice, eric holder, geneva convention, guantanamo bay, health professionals, madrid, national court, non-partisan commision, psychologists, spain, us law
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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
Sara Greenberg on
January 23, 2009
Last week on January 13, 2009, former military prosecutor Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld submitted a declaration in US federal court on behalf of Mohammed Jawad’s habeas corpus petition, noting “reliable evidence that he was badly mistreated by U.S. authorities both in Afghanistan and at Guantánamo, and he has suffered, and continues to suffer, great psychological [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged afghanistan, barack obama, Darrel Vandeveld, department of justice, frequent flier program, guantanamo bay, habeas corpus, mohammed jawad, washington post
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