Human rights groups ask attorney general to order new CIA torture probe Full Article The Miami Herald 23 Jun 2015
Three leading human rights groups argued Tuesday that the so-called Senate Torture Report provided fresh fodder of “serious federal crimes, including torture, homicide, conspiracy and sexual assault” in a letter asking U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to appoint a special prosecutor to re-investigate the CIA’s treatment of captives in its secret...
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A Debate on Torture: Legal Architect of CIA Secret Prisons, Rendition vs. Human Rights Attorney 2/3
A Debate on Torture: Legal Architect of CIA Secret Prisons, Rendition vs. Human Rights Attorney 2/3
- published: 28 Mar 2014
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http://www.democracynow.org - As the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence feuds with the CIA over the declassification of its 6,000-page report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation programs, we host a debate between former CIA acting general counsel John Rizzo and human rights attorney Scott Horton. This comes as the United Nations Human Rights Committee has criticized the Obama administration for closing its investigations into the CIA's actions after September 11. A U.N. report issued Thursday stated, "The Committee notes with concern that all reported investigations into enforced disappearances, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment that had been committed in the context of the CIA secret rendition, interrogation and detention programmes were closed in 2012 leading only to a meager number of criminal charges brought against low-level operatives." Rizzo served as acting general counsel during much of the George W. Bush administration and was a key legal architect of the U.S. interrogation and detention program after the Sept. 11 attacks. He recently published a book titled, "Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA." Attorney Scott Horton is contributing editor at Harper's Magazine and author of the forthcoming book, "The Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Foreign Policy." Watch and share the full debate uninterrupted: http://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/28/a_debate_on_torture_legal_architect Democracy Now!, is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on 1,200+ TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9am ET at http://www.democracynow.org. Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today, visit http://owl.li/ruJ5Q. FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/democracynow Twitter: @democracynow Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/democracynow Listen on SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/democracynow Daily Email News Digest: http://www.democracynow.org/subscribe Google+: https://plus.google.com/+DemocracyNow Instagram: http://instagram.com/democracynow Tumblr: http://democracynow.tumblr Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/democracynow
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Should Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & CIA Officials Be Tried for Torture? War Crimes Case Filed in Germany
Should Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & CIA Officials Be Tried for Torture? War Crimes Case Filed in Germany
- published: 19 Dec 2014
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http://democracynow.org - A human rights group in Berlin, Germany, has filed a criminal complaint against the architects of the George W. Bush administration's torture program. The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights has accused former Bush administration officials, including CIA Director George Tenet and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, of war crimes, and called for an immediate investigation by a German prosecutor. The move follows the release of a Senate report on CIA torture which includes the case of a German citizen, Khalid El-Masri, who was captured by CIA agents in 2004 due to mistaken identity and tortured at a secret prison in Afghanistan. So far, no one involved in the CIA torture program has been charged with a crime -- except the whistleblower John Kiriakou, who exposed it. We speak to Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights and chairman of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, and longtime defense attorney Martin Garbus. Watch all Democracy Now! reports on the U.S. torture program over the past decade: http://www.democracynow.org/topics/torture Democracy Now!, is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on 1,300+ TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9am ET at http://democracynow.org. Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today: http://owl.li/ruJ5Q FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: Facebook: http://facebook.com/democracynow Twitter: https://twitter.com/democracynow YouTube: http://youtube.com/democracynow SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/democracynow Daily Email: http://democracynow.org/subscribe Google+: https://plus.google.com/+DemocracyNow Instagram: http://instagram.com/democracynow Tumblr: http://democracynow.tumblr Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/democracynow iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/democracy-now!-audio/id73802554
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CIA torture: Who knew what?
CIA torture: Who knew what?
- published: 10 Dec 2014
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The United Nations is heading rights groups calling for CIA and other U.S. government officials to be prosecuted for their role in the ‘enhanced interrogation’ of suspects at secret prisons around the world. A long awaited-report into CIA detention and interrogation tactics has painted a bleak picture of U.S. torture and abuse. It talks of brutalising scores of so-called terror suspects under President George W. Bush. The Senate Intelligence Committee spent five years analysing more than six million pages of CIA documents, detailing tactics used after the September 11 attacks in 2001. A 525-page summary paints a picture of the CIA as an agency gone rogue. It accuses the CIA of subjecting suspects to beatings, simulated drowning, sleep deprivation, and threatening to harm, kill or sexually abuse their families. The report said the CIA misled the White House, Congress and other agencies to main a programme that had little oversight, and information obtained from suspects failed to provide any useful intelligence. So where does the buck stop? And who should be held responsible? Presenter Hazem Sika Guests Robert Grenier - former director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center. Moazzam Begg - outreach director of the rights group Cage Prisoners and a former Guantanamo detainee. Clare Algar - executuve director of the human rights NGO, Reprieve.
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CIA Human Rights Abuses, Torture, Death Squads: Amy Goodman (1996)
CIA Human Rights Abuses, Torture, Death Squads: Amy Goodman (1996)
- published: 30 Nov 2014
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U.S. Rights Groups Want Special Prosecutor to Probe CIA Tactics
U.S. Rights Groups Want Special Prosecutor to Probe CIA Tactics
- published: 22 Dec 2014
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U.S. civil rights groups on Monday called on the U.S. Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA's use of torture and other extreme measures during interrogations. The American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder that the recent Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA included significant new information about the nature of tactics, the decisions that led to their use and the number of prisoners involved. But the groups said the report's findings warranted a fresh criminal investigation. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/PoliticsNews/~3/H0oEinTJs-M/story01.htm http://www.wochit.com
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CIA Tortured, Misled, US Report Finds, Drawing Calls for Action
CIA Tortured, Misled, US Report Finds, Drawing Calls for Action
- published: 10 Dec 2014
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CIA Tortured, Misled, US Report Finds, Drawing Calls for Action CIA interrogations report sparks prosecution calls The UN and human rights groups have called for the prosecution of US officials involved in what a Senate report called the "brutal" CIA interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects. A top UN human rights envoy said there had been a "clear policy orchestrated at a high level". The CIA has defended its actions in the years after the 9/11 attacks on the US, saying they saved lives. President Barack Obama said it was now time to move on. 'Criminal charges' UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Ben Emmerson said that senior officials from the administration of George W Bush who planned and sanctioned crimes must be prosecuted, as well as CIA and US government officials responsible for torture such as waterboarding. "As a matter of international law, the US is legally obliged to bring those responsible to justice," Mr Emmerson said in a statement made from Geneva. "The US attorney general is under a legal duty to bring criminal charges against those responsible." Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth said that the CIA's actions were criminal "and can never be justified". "Unless this important truth-telling process leads to prosecution of officials, torture will remain a 'policy option' for future presidents," he said. CIA tortured, misled, US report finds, drawing calls for action CIA lied about brutal and ineffective torture - report Torture of Detainees Detailed in U.S. Report on CIA CIA torture report: UN, HRW, Amnesty International demand criminal prosecution of US officials CIA tortured, misled, U.S. report finds
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