Internal messages provided to Navy Times raise questions about how the military is handling the confession uttered by a Navy SEAL last week that he, not Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher, killed a wounded Islamic State prisoner of war in 2017. At issue is whether military authorities will go after Special Warfare Operator […]
The World’s Hypocritical Silence as China Imprisons its Ethnic Muslims En Masse…
Imagine the reaction in the global Muslim community if a western nation imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Muslims solely for being Muslim and subjected them to torture, “re-education” that amounts to treating their religious faith as a pathological mental illness, forcefully separating parents and children, incarcerating the children in state-run orphanages, and on and on […]
REVEALED: There Were Two CIA Torture Programs by Jeffrey Kaye…
A major aspect of the CIA’s detention and interrogation operations has been purposefully hidden from view, primarily due to secrecy guidelines that make it illegal for anyone “read into” the program to reveal even its very existence. Recent declassified documents make clear that there was not one, but two CIA torture programs. These programs used […]
Secret CIA Document Shows Plan to Test Drugs on Prisoners…
One of the most important lessons of the CIA’s torture program is the way it corrupted virtually every individual and institution associated with it. Over the years, we have learned how lawyers twisted the law and psychologists betrayed their ethical obligations in order to enable the brutal and unlawful torture of prisoners. Now we’ve won […]
MI5 Provides Immunity for Agents Criminal Acts…
MI5 grants its informants legal cover to participate in crimes that may extend to murder, torture and sexual assaults, a tribunal has heard. The policy, in existence since the early 1990s, is likely to have enabled the Security Service to conceal wide ranging illegal activity, Ben Jaffey QC, representing an alliance of human rights group, […]
Blair and Brown Governments Gory with Torture…
Even I was taken aback by the sheer scale of British active involvement in extraordinary rendition revealed by yesterday’s report of the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee. Dominic Grieve and the committee deserve congratulations for their honesty, integrity and above all persistence. It is plain from the report that 10 Downing Street did everything possible […]
True Scale of UK Role in Torture and Rendition After 9/11 Revealed…
Wow. Just Wow!: Ten Years for a Tweet – UAE’s Shameful Imprisonment of Ahmed Mansoor…
Last week Abu Dhabi’s Supreme Court sentenced the awarded-winning Emirati human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor to 10 years in prison after finding him guilty of using his social media account to “defame the nation” by spreading “rumours and lies about the UAE” and promoting “sectarian feelings and hatred” among its citizens. It is a ruthless […]
Denmark Ordered to Compensate Iraqi Civilians Over Torture…
A Danish court on Friday ordered the government to compensate 18 civilians who were tortured during the Iraq war in an operation carried out by Iraqi security forces along with a Danish battalion. In total, 23 plaintiffs had sued Denmark after they were arrested and subjected to “torture and inhumane treatment” in 2004 during Operation […]
Haspel, Spies and Videotapes…
In November 2005, the CIA’s chief of undercover operations, Jose Rodriguez, turned to his closest aide for help in a crisis. Congress was threatening an investigation into the agency’s secret prisons overseas, and The Washington Post had just published new details of the so-called black sites on its front page. Rodriguez feared that the furor […]
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