ATTENTION CITIZENS THIS IS IN NO WAY AN ADMISSION THAT THE PREVIOUS OFFERS OF $400k, then $30 MILLION WERE INSUFFICIENT
ATTENTION CITIZENS THIS IS NO WAY AN ADMISSION THAT WHAT WE WERE DOING BEFORE IS WRONG
The Justice Departmentpublished a revised and expansive definition late yesterday of acts that constitute torture under domestic and international law, overtly repudiating one of the most criticized policy memorandums drafted during President Bush’s first term.
“On Tuesday, Nov. 16, I saw tanks roll over the wounded in the streets of the Jumariyah Quarter. There is a public clinic there, so we call that the clinic street. There had been a heavy battle in this street, so there were 20 bodies of dead fighters and some wounded civilians in front of this clinic. I was there at the clinic, and at 11 a.m. on the 16th I watched tanks roll over the wounded and dead there.”
The American Civil Liberties Uniontoday released more undisclosed government documents suggesting that Army commanders may have interfered in military investigations into the deaths of Iraqi detainees in American custody.
The latest on the unfriendly skies of the CIA.
The Bush administration issued comprehensive new rules yesterday for managing the national forests, jettisoning some environmental protections that date to Ronald Reagan’s administration and putting in place the biggest change in forest-use policies in nearly three decades.
Danger Dismissed:How the Pentagon downplays the risks of depleted uranium weapons—Five part series
While U.S. forces fight in the streets of Iraq, scientists are finding more evidence that the depleted uranium weapons we’ve given them to defeat the enemy are a hazard to friend and foe—Daily Press
At least 10 current and former detainees at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have lodged allegations of abuse similar to the incidents described by FBI agents in newly released documents, claims that were denied by the government but gained credibility with the reports from the agents, their attorneys say.
In public statements after their release and in documents filed with federal courts, the detainees have said they were beaten before and during interrogations, “short-shackled” to the floor and otherwise mistreated as part of the effort to get them to confess to being members of al Qaeda or the Taliban.