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Rumsfeld: “Take the gloves off” in interrogation

LA Times story here.

Army Caught Lying in “Friendly Torture” Case

This article details how the Army denied injuring Baker, a denial that’s now bene reversed. (Use newtzi/isanazi for login and pass to get in to the LA Times).

“Baker, 37, a former member of the 438th Military Police Company, said he played the role of an uncooperative prisoner and was beaten so badly by […]

Mistakes Were Made

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, “I was just following orders.” – George W. Bush, in his ultimatum to begin the Iraq war.

April 2003 DoD Torture Memo Released by Wall Street Journal

In pdf form, here. It’s redacted and missing a number of pages; I noticed that pages 2, 3, 29, 30, 34, 41, 48 and 51 from the original are missing, and that the last page in it is obviously not the last page of the original. Pages 2 and 3 are obviously crucial, they would […]

Timeline of Torture-Planning Memos

In the New York Times. Each of the Justice Department memos in the list was requested by Senators on the Judiciary Committee today and Ashcroft refused to provide them, when he has absolutely no legal standing to do so and was even forced to admit as much.

Scandal Now Points from Top Down and Bottom Up

“Memo on Torture Draws Focus to Bush,” Washington Post. “In the view expressed by the Justice Department memo, which differs from the view of the Army, physical torture “must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death.” For a cruel or […]

Contempt of Congress and Humanity

Ashcroft’s first hearing with the Senate Judiciary in 15 months. Realplayer video at c-span.org, link here. If you can’t, then read an account like this of the hearing.

There are very few excuses that would satisfy your humble host if you tell me you have not seen this within the next 24 hours. In particular, […]

Must-read article

At the billmon blog. Boykin, Lt. Col. Jordan, now Pentagon lawyer Walker who authored the report approving of torture and fabricating Nuremberg-style defenses for it. What do all these people have in common?

British Torture, Death Cases Suddenly Double

AFP Story

Ashcroft Stonewalls on Torture Approval Memo

‘ “This administration rejects torture,” Ashcroft declared under tense questioning by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. But he steadfastly refused to comment directly about a policy paper on this issue, or say whether Bush ever responded to it. ‘