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The Abu Zubaydah Experiment
/40 Comments/in Torture, Torture Tape, Unitary Executive/by emptywheelThe New Yorker has a piece with long excerpts from the leaked Red Cross report on American torture of high value detainees. The article sure makes it sound like the torture tapes were an attempt to document which torture methods worked and which did not. Which I guess explains why they had to be destroyed.
Spanking Spak and Spec
/42 Comments/in FISA, Law, Torture/by emptywheelConyers Invokes the CIA Inspector General Report on Torture
/in Law, Torture, Torture Tape/by emptywheelEvery time I’ve raised the 2004 CIA IG report on torture on the Hill, whomever I’ve been talking to has gotten all hush hush, as if even they had to pretend the report never existed. Today, Conyers invoked it as one of the things that a Commission investigating the crimes of Bush and Cheney would focus on.
Helgerson and Cheney
/in Torture, Torture Tape/by emptywheelIt’s going to be a busy day for me, but one thing I’m hoping to do is nick down to Borders (hey, this branch is unionized, and Borders is local to Ann Arbor) to buy Jane Mayer’s new book. If for no other reason then to find out more about the meeting between John Helgerson, the CIA Inspector General, and Dick Cheney.
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