Waterboarding Too Dangerous, Internal DoD Memo Reveals
Originally posted at Truthout In recent weeks, former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen has been on a public relations campaign defending the efficacy of waterboarding, going so far as to say that the...
View ArticleCIA Second Taping System Reported in Zubaydah Interrogation
Jason Leopold has published an important article on Abu Zubaydah and the questions swirling around the destruction of the videotapes of his interrogation by the CIA. The Truthout reporter writes that a...
View ArticlePsychologists Notes May Indicate Zubaydah Torture Experimentation
Originally posted at Truthout One interesting nugget found in newly released CIA documents related to the destruction of 92 torture tapes concerns the unreported existence of psychologist’s notes as a...
View ArticleDid Abu Zubaydah Have Dissociative Identity Disorder? And Why It Matters
Last week, Jason Leopold got an important scoop in his interview with former CIA officer John Kiriakou. Kiriakou first became known when he revealed the CIA had indeed used waterboarding. He was also...
View ArticleWashington Post Rehabilitates Abu Zubaydah Torturer
I haven’t been blogging much of late, as I’m working on a few big investigative pieces. The first, due out later this week at Truthout, will take up the issue of the involuntary drugging of detainees,...
View ArticleSF Chronicle Columnist Slimes Waterboarding Victim in Bid to Stop Berkeley...
How thoughtlessly do the apologists for America’s gulag at Guantanamo defame those who have been seriously tortured! San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate columnist Debra Saunders has written a hit piece...
View ArticleWhile Texas Dismisses Torture Charges Against James Mitchell, Other...
Danny Robbins at Associated Press reported last Friday that the Texas State Board of Examiners dismissed a licensing complaint filed by a Texas psychologist against former SERE psychologist James...
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