TORTURE

Revealed – the secret torture evidence MI5 tried to suppress

MP David Davis's dramatic parliamentary move exposes treatment of terror suspect

Ragzieb Ahmed arriving at Heathrow from Islamabad: there are questions over MI5's role in his interrogation in Pakistan. Photograph: Dennis Stone/Rex features

By Bill Van Auken, 16 January 2009 Published on World Socialist Web Site

In his final speech from the White House Thursday night, President George W. Bush defended his legacy of war, torture and domestic repression while vowing that the “war on terror,” the ideological mainspring of his administration, must go on.

I saw Democracy Now on FSTV yesterday and they showed part of an interview with Cheney saying he okayed waterboarding and other torture methods; what an errogant, sadistic, criminal!

By Brian Beutler from the Media Consortium

Divulged in memos, but largely undiscussed at yesterday's bombshell Senate Armed Services hearing about the origins of American torture was a September 25, 2002 meeting at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba between Major General Michael Dunlavey--who at the time was overseeing interrogations at the detention facility there--and several of the administrations top lawyers, including Jim Haynes, then general counsel to the Department of Defense, John Rizzo, acting CIA general counsel, David Addington, counsel to the vice president, and Michael Chertoff, then head of the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice.

FBI agents created “war crimes file” documenting US torture

FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals

by Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium: Wed., May 14, 2008
Filed under: War Making and Oversight

The ACLU–conducting more oversight these days than Congress and the mainstream media combined–has gotten a hold of some previously unreleased documents detailing the torture of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and other overseas facilities. Here (PDF file), for instance:

As the Congress wets its pants over Michael Mukasey's ambivalence regarding Waterboarding and torture, I wonder if they are as critical of bombs, bullets, colonialism, and physical assault against Iraqis? I wonder if they think about the sanctions against Iraq, imposed by Clinton's Presidency, that literally starved the Iraqi People killing over 1 million?

It strikes me as a bit grotesque that we live in a country that has legalized the death penalty and torturous practices like water-boarding. The top 2 articles on the New York Times website shows the horror-show nature of our country. Happy Halloween.

1. Slappy head
2. Habeas What?
3. Martial Law