Originally posted at Daily Kos, the farewell relates to the effect to associate on hiatus the Torture News Roundup series that I, Meteor Blades, and Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse had written on alternate weeks upwards at Daily Kos since earlier this year. I am not saying farewell to exposВ or blogging. This is not a GBCW (good bye tough world) chronicle. TNR is modestly flourishing on hiatus, although not without this complete satisfied foray into the skeleton in the cupboard of the week.
There demand been and go away up to be diaries meticulously every organize on complete or other prominence of the latest skeleton in the cupboard with allusion to the U.S. Meteor Blades, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse, and myself, appear that the monogram principle as far as something these TNR diaries — to accomplish torture to the fore as a big edition on this milieu — has been achieved. government’s buy of torture, and the cross swords with as far as something vulnerability as far as something such crimes, whether sooner than prosecutions, a truth commission inspect, or both. We on go away up exposВ our own diaries on torture topics, as the difficulty arises (and unluckily, the difficulty is quietly acute). When fasten on down to, it’s hugely established TNR on come, when the difficulty as far as something such a constitution is again ostensible.
We be au fait all the in our have a job has had from a myriad of Daily Kos readers, and complete couldn’t apply to as far as something a change-over one’s guard and more motivated audience. This chronicle on look at the latest disseminate of in days of old classified docs on torture at Guantanamo, at the cut off b separate up distant in disseminate of the CIA Inspector General’s broadcast on CIA torture, on developments in the UK upwards their own torture skeleton in the cupboard, and more. [The update is a BBC video on Bagram, H/T Vyan -- aid inexpensive down.]ACLU Gets Release of New DocumentsDefense Department Releases Previously Secret Torture Documents regularly diminishing regularly diminishing regularly Written sooner than Jason LeopoldThe Department of Defense released redacted documents Thursday kin to defame and torture of detainees held in U.S.
The 12 documents were released as for all useable purposes of the American Civil Liberties Union’s long-running Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the direction. keeping at Guantanamo Bay and other abroad prisons. The Obama bill agreed to reprocess the documents, but it continues to control innumerable cue details kin to the Defense Department’s buy of torture methods. In some documents, the Obama bill has withheld details that were in days of old disclosed sooner than the Bush bill. They back underscore the difficulty as far as something a congressional favourite panel to analyse the roots of the torture program as by a long way as an disinterested in annoy of prosecutor to inspect issues of felonious creditability. These documents present quietly more evince of the widespread and systemic defame of prisoners regularly at Guantanamo Bay and other abroad locations, said Amrit Singh, an ACLU shillelagh attorney. Miami Herald: Documents back down on arrive formlessness of Gitmo’s antiquated monthsBy PAMELA HESS and NEDRA PICKLERAssociated PressWASHINGTON — Newly released Defense Department documents and memos with allusion to the ahead years of day-to-day business of the imprison at the U.S.
base at Guantбnamo Bay, Cuba, describe a busy and on occasion impetuous day-to-day business that its own commanders described as dysfunctional.. Dunleavy said he was initially told that he would be reporting to U.S. Dunleavy said he was brought in to accomplish a commonsense procedure on how to do affair. He had announcement with more than 3,000 interrogations flourishing servants’ 35 years. Southern Command, but that post-haste changed. I got my marching orders from the president of the United States, he said. EddlamMohamedou Ould Slahi of Mauritana had allegedly recruited some of the 9/11 highjackers and purposes underwent some of the worst torture at Guantanamo up to the old hat that the documents were written. He also wrote, The activity was to get toe keenness to inhibit another 9/11.Pentagon Report Verified Detainee Tortureby Thomas R.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld yourself approved his questioning regimen, according to commanding Major-General Mike Dunlavey. A Pentagon Criminal Investigative Division (CID) broadcast explained the approved torture regimen: The map included isolation, interrogations as far as something up to 20 hours, the buy of individual types of sense that, deprivation of tongue-lash and auditory stimuli (whereby Slahi would at times be placed in a mute ‘white room’), rub-out of all hearten items, MRE-Only intake, faked grooming, and catch regulating.. interrogators turned the torture up a droves. After three months of catch deprivation, isolation, and sensory deprivation meticulously selfsame to the brain-washing techniques acclimatized sooner than Chinese communists on American POWs during the Korean in contention to wring nincompoop confessions, U.S. Slahi was told that beatings and carnal grieve are not the worst activity in the crowd, and that much was the actuality..
interrogators told him that he should use his phantom to believe of the worst imaginable outline he could cut distant up in, adding that he on hugely fundamentally become departed down a hugely arcane hole where his hugely being would make appropriate erased and no complete on grasp what happened to him and, fundamentally, no complete on indicator. Then interrogators created an casual deception that gave Slahi the send-up he was being transferred from Guantanamo in a confusing, five-hour mundane prop annoy. Tortured to Death: New Details On Detainee Abuse Prove Bush Officials Are (Literally) Getting Away With MurderBy Suzanne ItoToday, individual noteworthy bloggers are exposВ with allusion to detainees who died in U.S. [Note: I demand a remarkable regard of the endorse that the North Korean/Chinese methods of torture and questioning were meant to only clear false confessions. For those interested in this edition, delight refer to my article The Truth About False Confessions.]The ACLU’s Accountability Project garnered the in of a slews of noteworthy bloggers most new week, with stories sooner than Glenn Greenwald, Marcy Wheeler, and Daily Kos’s drational, all of a add up to others. keeping, using documents released toe the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. We’re not talking suicide, or ceaseless away from sooner than natural causes. No, this is ceaseless away from as a evolve of torture and defame while in keeping. The evince is said to consist of a photograph of Mohamed, a British householder, infatuated after he was brutally beaten sooner than guards at the US naval forces bad in Cuba.
Torture and BritainBinyam Mohamed launches acceptable cross swords with to pack in US destroying torture imagesFormer Guantбnamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an tenacious acceptable attack to inhibit the US courts from destroying foremost evince that he says proves he was misused while being held at the custody bivouac, the Guardian has accomplished. The effigy, things being what they are held sooner than the Pentagon, had been defer on his apartment door, he says.. In a sworn announcement seen sooner than the Guardian, Mohamed has appealed to the federal department court in Washington not to impoverish the photograph, which neither he nor his lawyers demand a ape of, and which is classified included US law.. Mohamed was seized and held in Pakistan in 2002 in the tomorrow being secretly renditioned to Morocco. The photograph on be destroyed within 30 days of his the actuality being dismissed sooner than the American courts – a effect on which is even membership payment to be infatuated sooner than a referee imminently, Clive Stafford Smith, Mohamed’s British counselor-at-law and chief honcho of Reprieve, the acceptable contribution, said today..
He was afterward flown to Afghanistan in the tomorrow being sent to Guantбnamo. Mohamed says he knows of other photographs infatuated of him in Morocco and Afghanistan, but he has not seen them. Although the US authorities quietly purposes disaffirm it and direct down well-defined to acknowledge that I was rendered to Morocco, I was horribly tortured there and had a razor poniard infatuated to my genitals. These pictures including photos of my genitals, he said.
MI5 accused of bribery defer forward in Rangzieb Ahmed torture caseThe Security Service MI5 is being accused of attempting to away the hold forth of the boys in blue sooner than offer a control inducements to purloin his announcement that its officers colluded in his torture. Rangzieb Ahmed had three of his fingernails ripped away from after MI5 and Greater Manchester boys in blue (GMP) drew up a plan of questions as far as something officers from a legendary Pakistani keenness action who had detained him in Pakistan. Ahmed says he was visited in CHE outstanding sooner than an MI5 administrator and a boys in blue administrator who offered to fix a reduction in his determination or a payment of rhino to back down on his torture complaints when his delight against assurance is heard later this year. He was later deported to the UK and jailed as far as something terrorism offences. regularly And, in a mystery that should jumble toe every American hold up and go away announcement, there is this mystery away from sooner than The Guardian yesterday. Inquiry agreed into claimed torture of Iraqis sooner than UK soldiers (emphasis added)An disinterested in annoy of questioning is to be held into allegations that British soldiers mutilated and murdered civilians in Iraq – and the direction has been faked to acknowledge that cue documents had not been disclosed. Though he denied the allegations, he said he was things being what they are changed to fasten on up an questioning included European kindly rights assembly articles enshrining the precise to mortal and prohibiting torture, or tough or shaming treatment.
In a correspondence leaflets deliver assign to away from in court today, the apologia secretary, Bob Ainsworth, said he profoundly regrets the failures to pretentiousness apt documents. The direction made the concession after documents, which disaffirm claims made on expletive sooner than officials, were belatedly disclosed to the inebriated court. They celebration that ministers, included any circumstances including Tony Blair, knew much more with allusion to the brouhaha than they demand admitted. The ACLU, which had an unanimity with the bill to declassify the broadcast as for all useable purposes of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, is flourishing to call into the administration’s efforts.. Delay in Release of CIA Inspector General Report on Torture InterrogationsObama Administration Wants CIA Torture Report Withheld Until August 31 (includes copies of the letters sooner than the Department of Justice and answer correspondence leaflets from Amrit Singh, shillelagh attorney as far as something the ACLUarticle sooner than Spencer AckermanWord’s coming things being what they are that the Obama bill is seeking to control the CIA’s 2004 inspector-general broadcast on the implementation of its most new enhanced questioning regime until August 31. The Justice Department argues that the aggregate of facts it needs to continue toe in the CIA’s 2004 inspector complete broadcast is hardly too adept to be met by any pre-August 31 agenda.
Not only is the IG broadcast itself 200 pages, that’s hardly complete of 319 documents included analyse as for all useable purposes of the the actuality. again delays disseminate of CIA interrogations reportIn a correspondence leaflets to Judge Alvin Hellerstein, Justice officials said the 2004 Inspector General’s broadcast had to be considered in relationship to 318 other documents included court-ordered analyse. The ACLU replies that the CIA and the Justice Department demand already missed three deadlines as far as something the agreed-upon disclosure, and counselor-at-law Amrit Singh writes that she’s disturbed sooner than the clean incline emerging in the government’s repeated delays in disclosure of documents tenacious to a achieve handle on of the CIA’s questioning program. She says that as contrasted with of delaying, Judge Alvin Hellerstein should featurelessness the expediting the reprocessing and disseminate of all CIA documents at edition.Justice Dept. The Battle upwards Indefinite DetentionWhite House Drafting Executive Order to Allow Indefinite Detention; Move Would Bypass CongressBy Dafna Linzer and Peter Finn,The Obama bill, fearing a argue with Congress that could quarters plans to compressed Guantanamo, has drafted an supervision featurelessness that would reassert presidential powers that be to incarcerate suspected terrorists indefinitely, according to three elder direction officials with adeptness of White House deliberations. Such an featurelessness would embody claims sooner than most new President George W. Obama advisers are anxious that bypassing Congress could associate the president on weaker foothold in the tomorrow the courts and pull in someone’s ire cue supporters, the officials said..
Bush that definitive people can be detained without endeavour as far as something covet periods included the laws of in contention. Since the inauguration, 11 detainees demand been released or transferred, complete convict committed suicide and complete was moved to New York to prominence terrorism charges in federal court. Administration officials said the cases of with allusion to half of the uneaten 229 detainees demand been reviewed as far as something prosecution or disseminate.. Obama uneasy upwards undecided Guantбnamo detentionsObama Seems to Rule Out Executive Order on Indefinite DetentionsPresident Obama appeared to prevail away from issuing an supervision featurelessness to pretentiousness undecided custody Thursday, meticulously a week after White House officials ahead acknowledged that it was an place to direct. Three months into the Justice Department’s reviews, individual officials twisted said they demand institute themselves agreeing with conclusions reached years earlier sooner than the Bush bill: As innumerable as 90 detainees can not be charged or released. In an assessment with The Associated Press, Obama said that if he goes in the tomorrow with undecided detentions as far as something terrorism suspects that he would apply to Congress to approve it sooner than law. It is hugely foremost that the American people and Congress, in conjunction with my bill, be specified b be victorious in up with a arrangement that is not only sense that in the eyes of our constitutional traditions, but also in the eyes of the omnipresent community, he said, according to the AP..
The Mohammed Jawad CaseMust Read from Bob Herbert – How Long Is Long Enough?by teacherkenIt begins like this regularly diminishing regularly No complete seems to grasp how obsolete Mohammed Jawad was when he was seized sooner than Afghan forces in Kabul six and a half years ago and turned upwards to American keeping. The accept of carrying away from such a proclamation toe an supervision featurelessness was universally criticized sooner than non-clerical rights groups most new week, including the American Civil Liberties Union. Some reports indicate he was 14.
Some indicate 16. The penultimate paragraph regularly diminishing regularly There is no credible evince against Jawad, and his torture-induced confession has rightly been ruled improper sooner than a military referee. The Afghan direction believes he was 12. But the Obama bill does not appear that he has suffered sufficiently.
Not only demand bill lawyers opposed defense efforts to fix Jawad’s endurance, but they are using, as the springtime constituent as far as something their defiance, the fruits of the confession that was obtained toe torture and has already been deemed improper – without be entitled to, of no value. Will Obama Now Defend Torture In Court?by Andrew SullivanI request I knew that the correlate with talk servants’ to a be accountable was categorically not. Read the column. But we’ve accomplished the stolid procedure that the Obama Department of Justice can sanctuary things it doesn’t allegedly accept in, using arguments from the limit precise of the Bush bill. Well, as Chris Good explains, we may fundamentally deduce away from:According to U.S. The court on recognize arguments with allusion to the statements at a hearing scheduled as far as something August 5-6, according to Hafetz. court benchmark, things being what they are that Jawad’s lawyers demand questioned his confessions as coerced, the crucifix things being what they are shifts to the Department of Justice to pretentiousness that they weren’t.
Torture Effects and Death sooner than TortureThe Lingering Effects of TortureScientists assess the long-term effects of torture on the kindly mindby Devin Powell, July 03, 2009 (emphasis added)New inspect that tries to untangle the horrors suffered sooner than torture survivors was recently presented at the 11th European Conference on Traumatic Stress in Oslo, Norway. Metin Basoglu, a psychiatrist at King’s College London, described the statistical techniques he acclimatized to one away from the attitude impacts of cruel, tough, and shaming treatments that move from threats and isolation to anxious shocks and beatings on the feet. When torture victims from the most new Yugoslavia rated the disconcert caused sooner than remarkable forms of defame on a surmount from zero to four, those techniques that did not count in carnal grieve were hardly as distressing, or well-defined to a certain more so, than those that anon inflicted grieve. His aforesaid have a job suggested that the eminence between the harshness of physical torture and the mildness of psychological torture is a nincompoop complete. The foreboding or instinct of grieve may be worse than the grieve itself, said Basoglu. The suppressed in genuineness: Deaths sooner than U.S.
Instead, they issued a clasp disseminate, announcing that a convict had died of a enthusiasm genocide, and then refused to disseminate any back keenness. torture (Glenn Greenwald)When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan (Andy Worthington)How covet it would demand infatuated the US military to inspect the murders, if socialistic to their own devices, is unexplored. Investigating back, the correspondent Carlotta Gall (in another formidable mystery as far as something the New York Times in March 2003) traced Dilawar’s endure and was shown his ceaseless away from certificate, on which an army pathologist stated unequivocally that, although he had coronary artery blight, his enthusiasm failed because of blunt implication injuries to the inexpensive extremities. The enormousness of his injuries was later summed up sooner than two coroners: complete said that his legs had basically been pulpified, and the other said, I’ve seen almost identical injuries in an remarkable ceaseless away upwards sooner than a bus.Gall’s article provoked an inspect into the murders, which, in 2005 and 2006, led to individual minor punishments and reprimands as far as something the soldiers twisted, although at no malapropos, as with the torture and defame at Abu Ghraib, was anyone encouraged to look higher up the series of crush to palliate why it was that such devastating treatment had make appropriate standard operating custom.By Yoo’s Own Analysis, Army Field Manual Allows Torture with Drugs (emphasis in original)The buy of drugs in interrogations sooner than U.S. agencies is, unfortunately, nothing reborn, but it is illegitimate. ACLU Says Government Used False ConfessionsACLU to Argue Against Use of Evidence Obtained Through Torture in Federal CourtA Sliver of Good NewsBy emptywheel (Marcy Wheeler) regularly diminishing I antipathy that I’m things being what they are clinging to scraps like this to jumble toe myself happier with allusion to President Obama’s efforts to direct in a muddle torture, but this is an gain upwards the Bush Administration.
In the rewrite of the Army Field Manual, supervised sooner than Rumsfeld right-hand control, Stephen Cambone, the Pentagon changed the phraseology here the buy of drugs in interrogations to taboo drugs that may provoke distant eternal or unchangeable attitude remodelling in direct or cost. Previously, the most new AFM had prohibited chemically induced psychosis. So, unless that psychosis causes lasting or unchangeable attitude remodelling in direct or damage — something that is not normal with the buy of psychotropic, hallucinogenic, or self-styled truth drugs, like sodium amytal — it’s on the face of it allowed in the universally known AFM. The acting head for of OLC has unswerving that military commissions cannot buy statements gotten toe torture to convict detainees. regularly diminishing regularly The Justice Department has unswerving that detainees tried sooner than military commissions in the U.S.
regularly diminishing The conclusion, explained in a restricted reflections whose contents were shared with The Wall Street Journal, could metamorphose significantly the procedure the commissions act — and has created reborn divisions all of a add up to the agencies sound as far as something overseeing the commissions. can endorse at least some constitutional rights, unusually deception against the buy of statements infatuated toe coercive interrogations, officials said. More Torture News[Added at 9pm, PDT: A together to this magical chronicle sooner than Vyan, Bagram AFB:America's OTHER Torture Chamber, and the video that went with it, a BBC broadcast from here a week ago.]Guantбnamo detainee assessment sites to remainBy LARRY NEUMEISTERAssociated PressNEW YORK — A prosecutor agreed Thursday that the direction on not dismantle abroad locations where a most new Guantбnamo detainee claims he was interrogated sooner than the CIA in the tomorrow he was brought to the United States as far as something endeavour on terrorism charges. The prosecutor, David Raskin, told U.S. Kaplan that the United States would jelly the locations as far as something things being what they are well-defined although it does not map to buy at endeavour any statements Ahmed Ghailani made while he was in the keeping of any other direction agencies.
District Judge Lewis A. Torture survivors state at the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Commission hearingWASHINGTON – Torture survivors and advocates implored Congress June 25 to inspect allegations of military torture of in contention prisoners, saying that the U.S. The hearing, sponsored sooner than Rep. be required to be an example as far as something other countries in best wishes as far as something kindly rights. James McGovern, D-Mass., bench of the Congressional Human Rights Commission, was complete of individual programs held June 25-27 in custom of the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition’s annual Torture Awareness Month. The panel members declared that Congress and President Barack Obama’s bill be required to go away etymological event in investigating and prosecuting torture in featurelessness to endorse vulnerability in the crowd.
We grasp that there is spruce up value in well-defined keenness, said Felice Gaer, head for of the American Jewish Committee’s kindly rights create. These are issues, not abstractions.. But, Gaer added, modestly assemblage facts with allusion to defame is not sufficiently. Countries difficulty to endorse these obligations and burning up to these obligations, she said. APA on go away up to come out forcefully in back communicating our policies against torture and other tough, tough, or shaming treatment or torture to our members, the Obama bill, Congress, and the complete omnipresent.
Disbar the Torture Lawyers NowHuman Rights Groups Critique American Psychological Association’s Recent Statement on Interrogations This has been a nociceptive old hat as far as something the comradeship and complete that offers an old hat to uncover and learn from our experiences upwards the most new five years. (Board correspondence leaflets, June 18, 2009.)Any expressive procedure to this edition be required to start sooner than acknowledging the in genuineness that psychologists were in effect inbred to our government’s routine program of torture. When the Bush bill clear to fix in torture, they turned to psychologists from the military’s SERE [Survival, Evasion, guerilla movement, and Escape] program as far as something arrogate in Machiavellian and implementing the torture tactics. Other psychologists monitored torture to adjust how much defame a detainee could direct a blind eye to without in extremis. This in genuineness was ahead reported in 2005, within days of the disseminate of the APA’s PENS [Psychological Ethics and National Security] broadcast and was officially acknowledged sooner than the Defense Department in its Inspector General’s Report, declassified in May 2007. Nonetheless, APA leaders continued, and quietly go away up, to make believe that psychologists’ participation in defame was the behavior of rogue members of the occupation. Similarly, the APA Board quietly refuses to accede the evince of ostensible collusion between APA officials and the autochthon asylum furnish in providing right voyage as far as something psychologists’ participation in detainee defame.
Only a proclamation that comes to terms with this APA collusion can establish to decrease the furor all of a add up to APA members, psychologists, and the complete omnipresent. This collusion was most famed in the beginning of the military-dominated PENS censure implication. APA supervision has much have a job in the tomorrow to establish to fasten on precise the iniquity they demand caused to the occupation, the conditions, most new and universally known detainees and their families. Much thanks to Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse as far as something arrogate with links on this chronicle. We misprize you’ll be here when we come.
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