0905 San Francisco Chronicle, Ashcroft Can Be Sued Over Jailing "Witnesses": Former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be sued for damages for ordering Muslims jailed as material witnesses in criminal cases, allegedly as a pretext to investigate their possible links to terrorism, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Friday.
0909 Consortium, Ronald Reagan's Torture: Lost amid the attention given George W. Bush's "war on terror" torture policies was the CIA's cryptic admission that it also engaged in interrogation abuses during Ronald Reagan's anti-leftist wars in Central America, another era of torture and extra-judicial killings.
0914 Truthout, CIA Experiments on US Soldiers Linked to Torture Program: A number of new reports have, in recent weeks, highlighted evidence of illegal human experimentation on US-held "terrorism" prisoners undergoing torture. Those reports come on the heels of a "white paper" by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), "Aiding Torture: Health Professionals' Ethics and Human Rights Violations Demonstrated", in the May 2004 inspector general's report.
0915 REU, US Court Dismisses Iraqi Contractor Torture Case: A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit against two US defense contractors by Iraqi torture victims, saying the companies had immunity as government contractors. The lawsuit was filed in 2004 on behalf of Iraqi nationals who say they or their relatives had been tortured or mistreated while detained by the US military at the Abu Ghraib prison.
0915 Truthout, CIA Inspector General - Zubaydah's Torture Preceded John Yoo's Torture Memo: Bush administration officials have led the public to believe that Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee captured after 9/11, was a senior al-Qaida leader, who was subjected to waterboarding and other torture techniques after the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) drafted an August 1, 2002, legal memo authorizing the CIA to use brutal methods during his interrogation. But in a little known interview former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson gave to "Spiegel" magazine two weeks ago, he suggested Zubaydah was tortured "months" before OLC attorneys John Yoo and Jay Bybee wrote the August 1, 2002 memo [which means it was illegal at the time the CIA tortured Zubaydah].
0916 Rebel Reports, Cheney and Rumsfeld's "Close Friend" Throws Out Suit Against Alleged Abu Ghraib Torturers: On September 11, the US appeals court for the District of Columbia announced in a 2-1 decision that it was throwing out a lawsuit against CACI International and L-3 Communications Titan unit, which are being sued by Iraqi civilians for their alleged role in the torture and abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison. The companies provided interrogators at the prison at the height of the abuses there. The suit alleges that employees of the companies conspired with US Army reservist Charles Graner, who was convicted of prisoner abuse on January 14, 2005, and is currently serving 10 years at Fort Leavenworth, and others to torture prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Several of the plaintiffs are Iraqis whose torture was depicted in graphic photos revealed over the past several years.
0909 Consortium, Ronald Reagan's Torture: Lost amid the attention given George W. Bush's "war on terror" torture policies was the CIA's cryptic admission that it also engaged in interrogation abuses during Ronald Reagan's anti-leftist wars in Central America, another era of torture and extra-judicial killings.
0914 Truthout, CIA Experiments on US Soldiers Linked to Torture Program: A number of new reports have, in recent weeks, highlighted evidence of illegal human experimentation on US-held "terrorism" prisoners undergoing torture. Those reports come on the heels of a "white paper" by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), "Aiding Torture: Health Professionals' Ethics and Human Rights Violations Demonstrated", in the May 2004 inspector general's report.
0915 REU, US Court Dismisses Iraqi Contractor Torture Case: A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit against two US defense contractors by Iraqi torture victims, saying the companies had immunity as government contractors. The lawsuit was filed in 2004 on behalf of Iraqi nationals who say they or their relatives had been tortured or mistreated while detained by the US military at the Abu Ghraib prison.
0915 Truthout, CIA Inspector General - Zubaydah's Torture Preceded John Yoo's Torture Memo: Bush administration officials have led the public to believe that Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee captured after 9/11, was a senior al-Qaida leader, who was subjected to waterboarding and other torture techniques after the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) drafted an August 1, 2002, legal memo authorizing the CIA to use brutal methods during his interrogation. But in a little known interview former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson gave to "Spiegel" magazine two weeks ago, he suggested Zubaydah was tortured "months" before OLC attorneys John Yoo and Jay Bybee wrote the August 1, 2002 memo [which means it was illegal at the time the CIA tortured Zubaydah].
0916 Rebel Reports, Cheney and Rumsfeld's "Close Friend" Throws Out Suit Against Alleged Abu Ghraib Torturers: On September 11, the US appeals court for the District of Columbia announced in a 2-1 decision that it was throwing out a lawsuit against CACI International and L-3 Communications Titan unit, which are being sued by Iraqi civilians for their alleged role in the torture and abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison. The companies provided interrogators at the prison at the height of the abuses there. The suit alleges that employees of the companies conspired with US Army reservist Charles Graner, who was convicted of prisoner abuse on January 14, 2005, and is currently serving 10 years at Fort Leavenworth, and others to torture prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Several of the plaintiffs are Iraqis whose torture was depicted in graphic photos revealed over the past several years.