blog.aclu.org - 4/22/2009
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Late last night, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released its full report on the Department of Defense's (DOD) role in the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody (PDF). (A summary of the report was released last December, but it was only until last night that ...
thepublicdiscourse.com - 4/28/2009
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thepublicdiscourse.com —
by Christopher O. Tollefsen : > The recent
publication of the Torture Memos and of the International...
Red Cross report on the treatment of high-level detainees in the aftermath of 9/11 has returned to national prominence the discussion of the ...
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Torture: What it is, and Why it is Wrong
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Trickle-Down Torture: Rumsfeld Memo Used to Justify Torture in Gitmo, Afghanistan and Iraq
Crooks and Liars —
... the report said.
“The paper trail on abuse leads to top civilian leaders, and our report connects the dots,” Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said on Tuesday in a conference call with reporters. “This report, in great detail, shows a paper trail going from that authorization” by Mr. Rumsfeld “to Guantánamo to Afghanistan and to Iraq,” Mr. Levin said.
Dave N.: Suzanne Ito reports reaction from the Senate, including Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich: ...
Tortured Law: A Chat with Jameel Jaffer of ACLU’s National Security Project
Firedoglake —
... That all of these changes occurred at the direction at the highest reaches of American government is bad enough. Let alone that any number of lower level governmental employees and military personnel followed these unlawful directives after orders were issued. ...
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