Showing posts with label torture prosecutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label torture prosecutions. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Criminal complaint against Bush era architects of torture

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The Center for Constitutional Rights released the following important press release today. It discusses the first of what should be many su...
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Report Calls for Investigation and Prosecution of Top Government Officials for Acts of Torture

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The following is a press release from Human Rights USA about an important new effort to press for prosecutions of U.S. war criminals for the...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

The Significance of HRW's New Call to Prosecute Bush Administration Officials for Torture

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Cross-posted from MyFDL/Firedoglake Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a new report Tuesday. As they stated in the press release announcin...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Former Intelligence Officers Protest CIA Directors' Attempt to Spike Torture Prosecutions

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This was posted at consortiumnews.com today (H/T Ulana Odezynsky). Hatred for George Tenet is quite extensive in the intelligence community...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Health Professionals: Take action to demand accountability for torture

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The non-profit Bill of Rights Defense Committee has issued a series of open letters to Attorney General Eric Holder and the Senate Select In...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

White House: No to Prosecutions for "Those Who Devised (Torture) Policy"

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This morning on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos", Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said the White House d...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

Go Viral with This: Prosecute the Bush Torturers!

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Hat-tip to buhdydharma

More than Nuremberg: Thousands Prosecuted for War Crimes After World War II

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While the example of the Nuremberg Trials is used often these days to describe what prosecutions might look like, few seem to remember that ...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

Sick Torture Memos Also Lie: A Closer Look at the Bybee Memo

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Also posted at AlterNet Reading the just released August 1, 2002 memo by John Yoo (reportedly ghosting for Jay Bybee, then Assistant Attorn...
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PHR: Gov't Memos Confirm Role of Psychologists/MDs in Torture

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The following statement was released by Physicians for Human Rights this morning: OLC Memos Confirm Integral Role of Health Professionals in...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

"Good" and "Bad" Faith & the Torture Memos

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Astute commenter, Mary, over at Emptywheel/FDL , has a very interesting quick assessment of what is not in these torture memos. And what...
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No Amnesty for Torture: Sign the Petition for a Special Prosecutor

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Sign the Petition! (H/T Tahoebasha and David Swanson ) On April 16, President Obama said he would not prosecute CIA agents who engaged in to...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Gitmo Attys: Stop CIA Destruction of Evidence at "Black Site" Prisons

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The following is the text of a letter released by the ACLU, and authored by Guantanamo military and civilian attorneys to Leon Panetta, Dire...