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EXCLUSIVE: CIA Secret ‘Torture’ Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy
Matthew Cole and Brian Ross | ABCNews.com The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week. Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at a café, the CIA [...]
Alleged 9/11 mastermind: `I make up stories’
Delvin Barrett | MiamiHerald.com Accused al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed complained that interrogators tortured lies out of him, though he proudly took credit for more than two dozen other terror plots, according to newly released sections of government transcripts. ”I make up stories,” Mohammed said at one point in his 2007 hearing at Guantánamo Bay. [...]
Jesse Ventura Educates The Young Turks about 911
9/11 issue comes up at the 18:00 mark. TheYoungTurks.com
‘Mancow’ insists his waterboarding ‘absolutely real,’ says right and left both upset with him
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Phil Rosenthal | ChicagoTribune.com Erich “Mancow” Muller, responding to a report he faked being waterboarded on Chicago’s WLS-AM 890 a week earlier, said Friday that both his experience and subsequent newfound belief that the controversial interrogation technique is torture were “absolutely real.” Muller went [...]
NYT’s Pentagon Propaganda
Misleading report on Guantánamo and terrorismFair.orgWhile former Vice President Dick Cheney has been front and center in the media debate over the current White House’s national security policies, he’s not the only one trying to challenge the White House’s message. The New York Timespublished a front-page article (5/21/09) that bolstered the notion that former Guantánamo prisoners [...]
Obama Betrays The Liberals
Sherwood Ross | GlobalResearch.ca American liberals stand betrayed. Their new president, the one they sweated to elect—-a brilliant, charismatic leader with a professional background in constitutional law—has transmogrified himself from the champion who denounced in his campaign the illegalities of the Bush White House into a president bent on their perpetuation. Liberals are stunned [...]
Pelosi and CIA Clash Over Contents of Key Briefing
NAFTALI BENDAVID and SIOBHAN GORMAN | WSJ.com Speaker Claims Intelligence Officials Failed to Reveal Waterboarding Was Used; Spy Agency Denies Misleading Congress The top congressional Democrat on Thursday accused the Central Intelligence Agency of deceiving her about the use of harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists. The accusation pits House Speaker Nancy Pelosi against the [...]
Spanish judge starts Guantanamo torture probe
Al Goodman | CNN.com A Spanish judge Wednesday ordered an investigation into harsh treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay under the Bush administration on suspicion that there was “an authorized and systematic plan for torture,” according to a court document. The case involves four former Guantanamo prisoners — a Spaniard, a Moroccan, a Palestinian and [...]
On Torture, the Pressure Builds
Ray McGovern | InfoWars.com Well, well. The New York Times has finally put a story together on the key role that two controversial psychologists played in devising the Bush administration’s torture policies. Guess we should be thankful for small favors. Apparently, a NYTimes“exposé” requires a 21-month gestation period; just by way of pointing out that the substance of the Times“exposé” [...]
Top Democrats Complicit In Torture Cover-Up
Paul Joseph Watson |PrisonPlanet.com The Obama administration is resisting an independent inquiry into the Bush torture program because top Democrats like Pelosi were complicit in approving illegal methods. We now know why top Democrats are protecting Bush administration officials from facing an inquiry into the illegal torture program – because several of them were actually [...]
Same people defending torture’ ignored 9/11 warnings
Marc A. Thiessen, President Bush’s former speechwriter, is defending torture in the Washington Post. Apparently, this is the level of clout Dick Cheney and George Bush have, when the only people out defending them are speechwriters and people who are implicated in torture. Here is what Mr. Thiessen writes: In releasing highly classified documents on [...]
“Explosive” Senate Torture Report Reveals What We’ve Already Known For Three And A Half Years
Steve Watson | InfoWars.net A newly released Senate Armed Services Committee report is garnering much media attention today, however it only confirms what we first reported in 2005 – that high-ranking Bush officials were responsible for torture of detainees and tried to shift the blame to low-ranking army officers. The report is “a condemnation of [...]
Basic Instincts: The Science of Evil
‘Primetime’ Re-Creates a Famous Experiment to Understand How Ordinary People Can Perform Unthinkable Acts Caroline Borge | ABCNews.com Most of us have struggled to understand how seemingly ordinary people can sometimes do morally questionable things. Two years ago, the photos of young American soldiers smiling while torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib horrified the world [...]
Senate to announce investigation of torture under Bush, senators say
John Byrne | RawStory.com The Senate is quietly preparing plans to investigate allegations of torture under President George W. Bush, according to comments published Wednesday by Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). The Senate Judiciary Committee could announce a hearing to consider various plans to probe allegations of torture as early [...]
Yoo Memos Gave Retroactive Cover
A Justice Department inquiry has found that the Bush administration’s legal opinions justifying the torture of “war on terror” detainees were hastily drafted after one prisoner was already subjected to waterboarding, a practice that creates the sensation of drowning, according to several sources familiar with the still-classified report. Jason Leopold | ConsortiumNews.com The implication of [...]
I Was Illegally Detained by the U.S. Government and Held in CIA-Run “Black Sites”
Mohamed Farag Bashmilah | Alternet.org From October 2003 until May 2005, I was illegally detained by the U.S. government and held in CIA-run “black sites” with no contact with the outside world. On May 5, 2005, without explanation, my American captors removed me from my cell and cuffed, hooded, and bundled me onto a plane that delivered [...]
Under Obama, same stance on rendition suit
Bob Egelko | SFGate.com President Obama’s Justice Department signaled in a San Francisco courtroom Monday that the change in administrations has not changed the government’s position on secrecy and the rights of foreign prisoners – and that lawsuits by alleged victims of CIA kidnappings and torture must be dismissed on national security grounds. “Judges shouldn’t play [...]
“Yes I am emotional about torture SIR!” – Shami Chakrabarti SAVAGES UK Minister Geoff “Buff” Hoon
“Buff” Hoon over the US attempts to BLACKMAIL Britain into silence over evidence of Torture. Information Clearing House Posted February 07, 2009 Binyam Mohamed, a British resident held at the American base, has launched a legal challenge in the High Court in London for documents detailing his treatment to be made public. [...]
