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ICE Uses Threats of Deportation to Produce Terrorism ‘Intel’

ICE Uses Threats of Deportation to Produce Terrorism ‘Intel’

But now apparently the campaign to find terrorist boogie-men has come home with a vengeance. Just ask Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) informants Emilio and Analia Maya of Saugerties, New York. According to a fascinating Associated Press report by Helen O’Neill, on November 17, 2009, Emilio was surrounded by nine ICE officers in flak jackets with guns.

Release the 42 CIA Documents on Binyam Mohamed’s Brutal Torture

Release the 42 CIA Documents on Binyam Mohamed’s Brutal Torture

The recent decision of the UK High Court to release a seven paragraph summary of the torture perpetrated by U.S. agents upon Binyam Mohammed in April and early May 2002 is welcome news. The summary, written by a British court, was derived from 42 classified CIA documents delivered to the British legal authorities as part of an investigation into the actions of MI5 in the torture and interrogation of Binyam Mohamed and other prisoners held by Pakistan. These documents purportedly describe the torture of Mohamed, and indicate the collusion of U.S., British, and Pakistani authorities in the torture.

Holder/DoJ Cover-Up on Torture Memos Probe: Who is David Margolis?

Holder/DoJ Cover-Up on Torture Memos Probe: Who is David Margolis?

The role of Margolis, and the man himself, deserve a closer look. It does not take long to see that 40-plus year DoJ veteran David Margolis has some skeletons in his closet, and that his track record is not unblemished. In a July 2000 letter to the New York Review of Books by by E.L. Doctorow, Peter Matthiessen, William Styron, Rose Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, singled out Margolis as “point man” on a DoJ “vendetta” against Cointelpro victim Leonard Peltier.

Women Dying and Torture Run Amuck In Afghanistan

Women Dying and Torture Run Amuck In Afghanistan

Two reports coming out of Afghanistan illustrate the depth of hypocrisy and subterfuge characterizing the US/NATO intervention in that country. One could cite a myriad of such examples, so immoral and wrong is the US war there. In the first report, a 2009 human rights assessment prepared by Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department, obtained by The Canadian Press and reported at CBC News, revealed a skyrocketing suicide rate among Afghan women:

CIA Cable ‘Granting Permission’ to Destroy Torture Videotapes Surfaces

CIA Cable ‘Granting Permission’ to Destroy Torture Videotapes Surfaces

A January 8 release of documents in the ACLU FOIA lawsuit seeking materials related to the CIA’s destruction of videotapes of interrogators using “enhanced interrogation techniques” has revealed the first evidence of a precise instruction for the destruction of those tapes.

US Response Muted on Acquittal of UAE Royal Shown Torturing on Tape

US Response Muted on Acquittal of UAE Royal Shown Torturing on Tape

The typically restrained Obama State Department couldn’t raise itself to strenuously protest the most outrageous miscarriage of justice in quite a while. United Arab Emirates royal family member, Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan, brother of the country’s Crown Prince, was caught on tape brutally torturing and attempting to murder a man he thought had cheated him on a business deal. The tape surfaced last year, but the crime occurred in 2004.

Under Auspices of the Army Field Manual, Ongoing Torture Interrogations Continue at Guantanamo

Under Auspices of the Army Field Manual, Ongoing Torture Interrogations Continue at Guantanamo

With all the debate and controversy over the Obama administration’s policies on torture, no one had asked the military, and in particular those running America’s “terror” prisons, if they had been using the Army Field Manual’s Appendix M. But recently the Guantanamo’s Public Affairs Officer, Lt. Commander Brook DeWalt, confirmed Appendix M interrogations were taking place at Guantanamo.

Who Will Investigate CIA/RAND/APA Torture ‘Workshop’?

Who Will Investigate CIA/RAND/APA Torture ‘Workshop’?

Back in May 2007, while researching the activities of the American Psychological Association (APA) in support of the U.S. government’s interrogation program, I came across evidence that the APA had engaged in a discussion of torture techniques during a workshop organized by APA and the RAND Corporation, “with generous funding from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).”

Smoking Gun on CIA Torture Conspiracy? Human Experimentation Central to EIT Program

Smoking Gun on CIA Torture Conspiracy? Human Experimentation Central to EIT Program

A close reading of the CIA’s Inspector General Report and the Senate Intelligence Committee’s narrative on the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) torture memos reveals a more detailed picture of the CIA’s involvement in the construction of those documents.

CIA/SERE Experiments Evidence of Attempt to Mislead on OLC Torture Memos

CIA/SERE Experiments Evidence of Attempt to Mislead on OLC Torture Memos

Professor Shane O’Mara at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience in Dublin has written an article which has caught the attention of the mainstream media. Associated Press reporter Pamela Hess described Prof. O’Mara’s article,”Torturing the Brain: On the folk psychology and folk neurobiology motivating ‘enhanced and coercive interrogation techniques’” as showing that the CIA’s “severe interrogation techniques appear based on… a layman’s idea of how the brain works as opposed to science-based understanding of memory and cognitive function.”

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