Waterboarding is a Game of Three Card Monty

As we reported two days ago, the CIA has admitted to the use of waterboarding. However, they qualified it by saying they’ve only used it on three high value detainees and not again over the last five years. Mike McConnell the intelligence director was quick to point out though, that waterboarding still remained [...]

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Waterboarding? Youbetcha

CIA Chief Michael Hayden has admitted that the CIA used waterboarding,but only on three people and not at all in the last five years. However, Intelligence Director Mike McConnell says waterboarding still remains in the CIA’s arsenal.

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Canadian Troops Take A Stand Against Torture

In a departure from the American way of handling detainees (aka torture), the Canadian military, currently helping us with the ongoing war in Afghanistan, has stopped transferring prisoners over to Afghani authorities where evidence suggests that they are torturing the prisoners.

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CIA Tape Case – New Developments

The Bush Administration must love the fact that this CIA tape case broke just before Christmas and then got swept under the rug by both the holiday and the groundswell of presidential campaign hyperbolic naval gazing that’s been going since the start of this year. Despite the overall lack of coverage by the [...]

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Evidence of Torture and Dissappearances Keeps Coming Out

In what started as a trickle, has rapidly advanced to a rising tide, stories of torture and mass disappearances are flooding the news. The stories read like political fictions but are all too real. Countries involvement in torture is nothing new, in fact America’s involvement in torture is nothing new. But, what [...]

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Waterboarding Like “Flipping A Switch”, Dems and Republicans Agree.

It’s clear to us why Pelosi took impeachment off the table. She and her cohorts supported the President’s descent into war crimes and as we reported earlier asked whether or not the torture techniques used were tough enough.

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CIA Tapes -NY Times Document Alludes to Existence of Tapes as of 2007

In a PDF from the New York Times surrounding the destruction of key CIA tapes showing interrogation techniques used on detainees, a sentence on page two alludes to the fact that the tapes were not in fact destroyed. Are these copies? Different tapes?

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UK asks US Government to Stop Destruction of Evidence in Another Terrorism Case

Just as the UK wrapped up negotiations with the US for the release of four detainees in Gitmo, another case involving a UK citizen detainee has resulted in a motion to stop the US Government from destroying evidence of torture. From the Independent
Lawyers for a British resident who the US government refuses to [...]

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The First Obstruction Case?

According to the the New York Times Majid Khan, the first of the high-value terrorism suspects at Gitmo to meet with a private lawyer has said he was subject to state sanctioned torture, including waterboarding. This could well be the first obstruction of justice case to come out of the CIA tape case. [...]

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CIA Tape Case Update: Blood In The Water

The blood is in the water on the CIA tape case, as was broken on Friday, the CIA has destroyed two tapes which contain evidence of waterboarding. This prompted a firestorm of accusations about who knew what, when, and whether or not there is a case to be made about obstruction of justice. Republicans [...]

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Update: CIA Tape Case

Senator Edward Kennedy has release a statement on the CIA Tape case. According to the statement, congress was not notified. This contradicts a line in the earlier post on the Washington Post/New York Times articles that ran today. A few telling tidbits:
It is particularly difficult to take the Director’s explanation at [...]

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CIA Destroys Evidence of Waterboarding

The Washington Post is running a story this morning that the CIA has destroyed video tapes of its agents using waterboarding against two Al-Qaeda suspects. All the tapes were destroyed in November of 2005 on the order of the CIA’s head of Clandestine Operations. According to the article:
The destruction came after the Justice Department [...]

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UK and US Governments Still Hardline on Detaining Terrorism- Those Outiside The Bubble, Less Sure

As we and the rest of the world have been covering this week, the US National Intelliegence Estimate has caused quite a splash. Prompting non-sensical spin from the Bush Administration and it’s posse. John Bolton former UN Ambassador, and current American Enterprise Institute lackey previewed his absurd Washington Post editorial yesterday on [...]

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