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By
Kathleen Sullivan on
May 7, 2009
Almost every day for the past six weeks new information has emerged about abusive interrogations conducted by the US military and intelligence agencies during the Bush Administration. Despite this gathering torrent, apologists for Bush-era decision makers are urging the American people to turn the page — and quickly — on this sordid chapter in our history.
Into this fray step [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged bush administration, commission of inquiry, criminal prosecutions, rhode island, sheldon whitehouse, us congress, us senate
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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
February 26, 2009
On Tuesday, Salon.com’s Mark Benjamin reported that US Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is moving forward with with a commission to investigate torture during the Bush administration.
Committee Chairman Pat Leahy, D-Vt., told Salon Tuesday that his panel would soon announce a hearing to study various commission plans. His staff said the announcement could come as early [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged barack obama, bush administration, commission, frank donaghue, mark benjamin, patrick leahy, salon.com, sheldon whitehouse, student conference
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