A Request for Information: Regarding Torture, Rendition, etc.

[Solly Mack]

I'm hoping to get a thread with as much reference material on the US governments policy of torture, extraordinary rendition, and assorted other war crimes and abuses.(GTMO,secret prisons, Habeas Corpus - lack of, psychologists involvement )

If you would - pretty please - post any and all links and materials that you want to share in this thread, then we can create a handy resource people can bookmark.

The links can be to news articles, your journals, picture threads...anything and everything.

With much gratitude!!!

TIA

Solly


Just a few (I have hundreds) - and there are links within the links, as well as links to other threads with more information and even more links.

There's no coming back from this bill...the very fact that America
"... the amount of time that a detainees suffering must last before ..."
"What's in the Terrorism Detainee Bill?" (The "compromise" bill)
How the Compromise Detainee Legislation Guts Common Article 3
The Pentagon Memo
The Enhanced Language of Guilt
I will not pretend otherwise...
Truly Masterful Bullshit
He was waterboarded....I don't "think they rely on torture"...I know it
I'd rant and rave - and I do quite frequently ....
CHENEY'S Torture Memo Drew The Line At Threatening To Bury A Prisoner Alive (WAPO)
The CIA's torture teachers
Torture teachers
Seymour Hersh Article: "The General's Report"
The Abu Ghraib Files

[iverglas]

1. on the psychologists aspect

When I participated in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1645640&mesg_id=1645640

I found this blog very useful:

http://www.psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/
"Psyche, Science, and Society
Blog of Stephen Soldz: Psychoanalyst, Psychologist, Researcher, and Activist"

The material on the APA resolution etc. has begun to sink a bit -- it starts below the heading "Woolf on APA Resolution: A Sad Day for Psychologists, a Sadder Day for Human Rights" -- but there is an enormous amount of it, chock full o' links to a plethora of sources and resources, most of which would be worth bookmarking.

[Solly Mack]

2. Thank you!!!!!

psychoanalystsopposewar.org used an article of mine...got a fondness for them :)

[Annces]

3. Maria Arrigo interview on Democracy Now August 20

along with a paper of hers.


APA Interrogation Task Force Member Dr. Jean Maria Arrigo Exposes Group’s Ties to Military
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/20/1628234



Paper - A Consequentialist Argument against Torture Interrogation of Terrorists

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/jscope/arrigo03.htm

[Solly Mack]

4. Thank you!!!!!

[GliderGuider]

5. Maher Arar

Maher Arar: The story of the Canadian who was transferring planes at JFK airport and got sent to a Syrian prison to be tortured on advice given to the CIA by the RCMP who obtained their "intelligence" from a confession obtained under torture.

Note: This is not conjecture or allegation. There was a public inquiry. Justice O'Connor's report contains all this information and more.

http://www.maherarar.ca/

Yes, boys and girls, even Canada uses sources of information that would turn your stomach. I had this confirmed to me personally by William Samson, a Canadian who was left to rot and suffer in a Saudi prison.

[Solly Mack]

6. Excellent - thank you!!! I know it isn't conjecture.... :(

[Solly Mack]

7. kick

[annabanana]

8. I will help keep this kicked

recommended

[Solly Mack]

9. Thank you so much, annabanana!!

I'm collating more links to add later.

[annabanana]

13. Monday morning kick for info & links. . . . n/t

[slipslidingaway]

10. The Torture Memo By Judge Jay S. Bybee That Haunted Alberto

Gonzales's Confirmation Hearings

By JOHN W. DEAN

Friday, Jan. 14, 2005
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20050114.html


embedded link to copy of memo

http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/doj/bybee80102ltr.html

U.S. Dept. of Justice Memo from
Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo
To Alberto R. Gonzales, White House Counsel

Memo from Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo to the White House Counsel on interrogation methods that do not violate prohibitions against torture.

August 1, 2002


Thanks for the thread!

[Solly Mack]

11. Thank you!!!

[slipslidingaway]

12. 'Never Before!' Our Amnesiac Torture Debate

You're welcome...

'Never Before!' Our Amnesiac Torture Debate
by Naomi Klein

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1209-22.htm

snip

"Other cultures deal with a legacy of torture by declaring "Never again!" Why do so many Americans insist on dealing with the current torture crisis by crying "Never Before"? I suspect it has to do with a sincere desire to convey the seriousness of this Administration's crimes. And the Bush Administration's open embrace of torture is indeed unprecedented--but let's be clear about what is unprecedented about it: not the torture but the openness. Past administrations tactfully kept their "black ops" secret; the crimes were sanctioned but they were practiced in the shadows, officially denied and condemned. The Bush Administration has broken this deal: Post-9/11, it demanded the right to torture without shame, legitimized by new definitions and new laws.

Despite all the talk of outsourced torture, the Bush Administration's real innovation has been its in-sourcing, with prisoners being abused by US citizens in US-run prisons and transported to third countries in US planes. It is this departure from clandestine etiquette, more than the actual crimes, that has so much of the military and intelligence community up in arms: By daring to torture unapologetically and out in the open, Bush has robbed everyone of plausible deniability."

[Solly Mack]

14. More links

Abu Ghraib: "The President Had to be Aware of This"

Rumsfeld Testifies Before Senate Armed Services Committee-treatment of Iraqi Prisoners

Transcript : Taguba, Cambone on Abu Ghraib Report


Did Chertoff lie to Congress about Guantánamo?

Psychologists oppose torture yet vote to attend terror interrogations

Abu Ghraib Tactics Were First Used at Guantanamo

What Rumsfeld knew

[EFerrari]

17. Ethical APa

www.ethicalapa.com

:kick:

[Solly Mack]

23. Thanks, sfexpat2000!!!!

[Time for change]

15. Stephen Grey's "Ghost Plane -- The True Story of the CIA Torture Program"

is an excellent resource.

I discuss it in this post, and provide some additional references too:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1156927

[Solly Mack]

20. Thanks, Time for Change!!!!

Much appreciated!!!

[Time for change]

16. Here's some more

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1890766

[leftchick]

18. do you have this one?

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,816331,00.jpg

The case of Khaled el-Masri has managed to drive a wedge between Washington and Berlin.

US Displeased over German Hunt for CIA Agents


The German investigation into what exactly happened to the German citizen Khaled el-Masri, and who was responsible, is becoming an increasingly prickly thorn in the side of Germany-US relations. Indeed, after a Munich court issued arrest warrants (more...) against 13 CIA agents at the end of January for complicity in his kidnapping and subsequent torture, high-ranking US diplomats sought to convince the German government not to expand the search for the perpetrators internationally, German government sources have told DER SPIEGEL.

Following the Jan. 31, 2007 issuing of the arrest warrants, US diplomats spoke with foreign policy advisors of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to express Washington's displeasure that the case was being forwarded to Interpol, the international police organization that facilitates policing cooperation among 186 member countries -- including the US and Germany. In addition, a representative of the US Embassy in Berlin likewise visited the Germany justice ministry to speak with the official in charge of international legal issues.

Despite the diplomatic offensive -- and despite misgivings in Berlin -- the government agreed to forward the case to Interpol on Feb. 21. Were they to have honored the US request not to get Interpol involved, it would have been a first in German history. Now, Interpol is searching for 10 of the 13 agents involved with the aim of arresting them and extraditing them to Germany for trial.

El-Masri was abducted in Macedonia in late 2003 before being handed over to the CIA and flown to Afghanistan in early 2004 as part of the "extraordinary renditions" program, which saw terror suspects abducted and flown to third countries for interrogation and, in many cases, torture. El-Masri says he was beaten and sodomized while in prison in Afghanistan. Five months later, after the US apparently realized it had arrested him in error, he was flown back to Europe and released on the side of a road in Albania. No charges were ever filed against him.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,469884,00.html

[Solly Mack]

21. Great one!!! Thanks, leftchick!!!

[Solly Mack]

22. More links

CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described

Bush On Torture Report: ‘Haven’t Seen It, We Don’t Torture’

CIA Puts Harsh Tactics On Hold

'Appropriate pressure' being put on al Qaeda leader

Vanity Fair Exposes How Two Psychologists Shaped the CIA's Torture Methods

If they torture Arabs today who will torture tomorrow ?

U.S. Dept. of Justice Memo from
Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo To Alberto R. Gonzales, White House Counsel>


Documents link Rumsfeld to prisoner's interrogation

Executive Order: Interpretation of the Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 as Applied to a Program of Detention and Interrogation Operated by the Central Intelligence Agency

FBI Agents Allege Abuse of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay

[annabanana]

19. Late afternoon kick. . . . . n/t

[annabanana]

24. early morning kick for more info. . . .n/t

[annabanana]

25. And one big kick for the cube rats starting their work week!. . n/t

[Solly Mack]

26. More links

Interrogation Methods Rejected by Military Win Bush’s Support

Judge dismisses charges against Canadian Guantanamo detainee

Major General Barbara Fast: In Charge, but Little Said About Her

Memo on Torture Draws Focus to Bush

Sex used to break Muslim prisoners, book says

CIA General Counsel Nominee Stands By Torture

Torture Becomes a Matter of Definition

Torture, Cover-Up At Gitmo?

AP: U.S. interrogating at Africa’s secret prisons

U.S. lawsuit: Some Guantanamo detainees were not enemy combatants

Detainees Accuse Female Interrogators

Waterboarding Historically Controversial - In 1947, the U.S. Called It a War Crime; in 1968, It Reportedly Caused an Investigation

Report steers clear of interrogators' boss