Tag Archives : interrogation

Dick Cheney admits being a supporter of the near-drowning torture technique called waterboarding, even if the US generally regards its use as a war crime. Robert Parry, author of a new book entitled Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, writes in AlterNet, “Cheney was unrepentant about his support for the technique. [...]

Spying, interrogation, and imprisonment are the norm when dealing with the Church of Scientology staffers who abandon the congregation. The organization also tries every tactic to bring back the deserters. According to the church’s ex-security chief Gary Morehead, ‘he read every piece of mail that staffers received, recording any information within, [...]

Tens of thousands of Tamil children were displaced along with their families due to the intense fighting between Sri Lankan troops and the guerrilla group Tamil Tigers that saw the bloody defeat of the latter. These children are among the thousands now packed in refugee camps that have been observed as virtual prison camps. International human rights [...]

There is now such a thing as the Bush administration’s Torture 13. They belong to the nefarious circle by virtue of authorizing torture to be systematically employed in the name of information gathering post-9/11 for the sake of intelligence. They carried out the strategy, as well as legally justified it. All these point to the creation of a [...]

Bagram’s ‘King of Torture’ says, “I opened up Abu Ghraib.” He was also sometimes called ‘Monster.’ Damien Corsetti, in charge of interrogation operations, gives a first-person testimony of torture. In simple parlance, his job was to torture some detainees in those CIA secret prisons. Bagram is a US military base in Afghanistan that is [...]

Britain unveils guidelines for interrogating suspected terrorists. The guidelines to which British military intelligence operators must adhere to in the interrogation of terrorist suspects were made public, as Gordon Brown announced to the Parliament. The prime minister wants to show that Britain condemns torture and that the publication of these guidelines [...]

The UN prepares for the opening of an investigation of clandestine detention centers used by the CIA as part of the “war on terror,” according to the agency’s spokesperson on torture. “We call on all governments to cooperate, not only to clarify the facts, but also so that no secret detention facilities will be used in the future,” [...]