The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Preventing Torture in the 21st Century: Monitoring in Europe Two Decades On, Monitoring Globally Two Years On Part II Cover Page and Acknowledgements Table of Contents (A4 Online Accessible Version) Table of Contents (A5 Print Version)
CIA rendition: US court throws out torture case, citing state secrets Appeals court judges sound apologetic tone in ruling; plaintiffs say they were tortured overseas in ‘extraordinary rendition’ program. Under the state secrets doctrine, courts have generally granted deference to executive branch claims that certain litigation may involve highly sensitive US government information which, if …
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[DoD] Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants KABUL, Afghanistan — Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United …
COMMENT: IMHO, incredibly irresponsible behavior by UK judicial system. However, I really wonder whether USG will really degrade the special relationship because I suspect it would be cutting our nose off to spite our face. While I think we have clear dominance in some intelligence disciplines and coverages, I also think the UK dances rings …
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Editorial, Wednesday 25 November 2009 Allegations about Britain’s role in the torture of its own citizens in Pakistan are not new. They have been made persuasively by our own investigative reporting. What is new in the report published yesterday by Human Rights Watch is the corroboration it obtained from the torturers themselves. Ali Dayan Hasan, HRW’s …
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Researcher Berto Jongman recommends…. Poverty and unemployment fuel the conflict according to 70% of Afghans, new Oxfam research shows Seventy per cent of Afghans surveyed see poverty and unemployment as the major cause of the conflict in their country, according to new research by international aid agency Oxfam and a group of Afghan organisations. Ordinary …
Shades of Abu Ghraib by Alistair Horne National Interest 10.27.2009 THE GRISLY subject of torture is back with us again, with fresh allegations of CIA misconduct. It is a subject which first came to occupy my thoughts when I was writing a book on the Algerian War, A Savage War of Peace, back in the …
