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While there was some discussion among the Republican candidates at Saturday night’s debate in New Hampshire as to whether or not waterboarding was a form of torture (it is), Donald Trump went below and beyond everyone else on stage to insist that not only would he reinstitute waterboarding against America’s enemies, he would “bring back…

Britain's top court ruled Wednesday that a Guantanamo detainee waterboarded by the CIA can use English law in his claim against the UK government over alleged complicity in the torture.But the UK Supreme Court upheld an earlier Court of Appeal ruling that the laws of England and Wales apply.

If you talk privately to Hillary Clinton campaign aides, one of the more common complaints is that Bernie Sanders just hasn’t faced enough scrutiny. It’s ironic, in a way – Sanders supporters generally argue the Vermont senator doesn’t get enough attention from the national media, and in a way, Team Clinton agrees. As the argument…

The authors of The Forever Prisoner, which focuses on the case of Abu Zubaydah, reveal how the US torture program proliferated, how it was misused by US allies, and how detainees were used as training props resulting in their deaths

One of the psychiatrists who waterboarded detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri multiple times in 2002 testified recently that Gina Haspel, who later became director of the CIA, observed the torture sessions at the US-run black site in Thailand that was under her direction.

A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who went through the brutal U.S. government interrogation program after the 9/11 attacks described it openly for the first time Thursday, saying he was left terrified and hallucinating from techniques that the CIA long sought to keep secret. Majid Khan, a former resident of the Baltimore suburbs who became an al-Qaida courier, told jurors considering his sentence for war crimes how he was subjected to days of painful abuse in the clandestine CIA facilities known as “...

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case from a Guantanamo detainee seeking information after he was held in a CIA “black site” following the Sept. 11 attacks.

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 08:27 UTC © REUTERS / JOSHUA ROBERTSSo, the electoral college cast their votes, and they handed Joe Biden the Presidency. The decision was never in any serious doubt. Given all that, it was inevitable the Electoral College would vote Biden in, and the lawsuits would be turned out of court unheard. You dont go to the trouble of fixing a nationwide election and without knowing you have the judges and bureaucrats on-side first. When youre staging a coup, the vast majority of th...

Defense yesterday they must justify the need for more scans. its notable that no information has been released on exactly which experts looked at and concluded that collegiate mohammeds suffering brain damage. the pentagon also wont comment on proof of him having brain damage would cause the government to drop the death penalty. in a military decision to abandon a capital case, it can be made by the prosecutor, the judge or a jury made up of u.s. military officers. martha. >> martha: fascinating...

With obama, when you do the fast and furious. this was the bush administration, theyre not going to prosecute. this is a question in my mind whether in fact the cia itself said theres a possibility that you could have gotten intelligence on bin laden specifically, from people who did not go through this torture? this is just not the way we do things. its funny the way you ran that thing, but frankly i dont see the advantage of this. leon panetta says it was helpful, i still havent seen enough cr...