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From the Washington Post: In April 2003, the Defense Department approved interrogation techniques for use at the Guantanamo Bay prison that permit reversing the normal sleep patterns of detainees and exposing them to heat, cold and "sensory assault," including loud... Posted Sun 05/09/2004
The full text of the secret Teguba Report, detailing the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison by members of the US military. Includes the section on "ghost detainees" (prisoners secretly held with no record of their detention) that is missing from many public versions. Also includes photos. Posted Sun 05/09/2004
(Continuation from part 1 of this post.) The full text of the secret Teguba Report, detailing the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison by members of the US military. Includes the section on "ghost detainees" (prisoners secretly held with no record of their detention) that is missing from many public versions. Also includes photos. Posted Sun 05/09/2004
From the National Security Archive: "I think we ought to take every step that we can, be prepared to do everything that we need to do," President Johnson instructed his aides regarding preparations for a coup in Brazil on March... Posted Sat 04/10/2004
From The Village Voice: While the nation focused on Richard Clarke's allegations last week, CIA director George Tenet let slip other revelations in his testimony to the 9-11 Commission, admissions that sharpen the contours of the shadowy intelligence practice called... Posted Wed 03/31/2004
From the London Observer: Dramatic corroboration of the massacre of Afghan prisoners by the US-backed Northern Alliance at the start of the war in 2001 was last night provided by American pathologists commissioned to investigate the claims by the UN.... Posted Tue 03/23/2004
From the Washington Post: It was shortly after 4 a.m. on Sunday, U.S. diplomat Luis Moreno recalled, when he pulled up to the gate of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's walled compound in the suburb of Tabarre. He was traveling with... Posted Mon 03/15/2004
The London Guardian reported in Sept. 2003 that the CIA is using a database codenamed "Harmony" to catalog the responses given by captives taken in the war on terror. This includes the results of interrogations under torture. Especially important or... Posted Mon 03/15/2004
On March 8, 2004, the alternative news program Democracy Now! managed to reach exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by cell phone in the Central African Republic. The 30 minute interview is the most extensive English-language comments given by Aristide to... Posted Mon 03/15/2004
President Bush told ABC News in an interview for broadcast that whether or not Iraq had WMD was irrelevant to his Administration's justification for invading. "So what's the difference?" Bush said. "The possibility that he could acquire weapons. If he were to acquire weapons, he would be the danger." (Includes transcript excerpts from the interview.) Posted Mon 01/05/2004
From the ACLU: In a surprise development, hundreds of videotapes that were originally said by the Department of Justice not to exist were discovered recently by its own internal affairs bureau and document many of the detainee abuses listed in... Posted Fri 12/19/2003
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled President Bush exceeded his Constitutional authority by ordering US citizen Jose Padilla held as an enemy combatant without charge or legal representation, and that Padilla must be released from military custody within... Posted Thu 12/18/2003
Senior intelligence officials confirm that a secret finding recently signed by President Bush, building on an earlier one by President Clinton, grant the CIA legal authority to conduct assassination operations against individuals designated as terrorists. As a result, the CIA is devising strategy and policy to that end, and is developing assets for assassinations within both the CIA and "uniformed military units," as well as foreign agents in Middle Eastern countries. Officials within the CIA are reportedly adamant that there be a clear paper trail indicating authorization for assassination ops come from the President in order to avoid accusations the Agency is acting on its own, as happened during Congressional investigations during the 1970s. Posted Wed 10/31/2001
