Rights Groups Slam Bid to Suppress Abuse Pics
President Barack Obama's decision Wednesday to object to the planned release of photos showing abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan has drawn quiet praise from the military and some in Congress – and outspoken scorn from human rights advocates, a...
Senate Panel Probes Legality of Torture Memos
"An ethical train wreck" was the phrase used by one witness to describe the legal reasoning behind the Justice Department's recently released memos justifying the use of waterboarding and other forms of "enhanced interrogation techniques." The...
Back to Military Commissions?
Human rights advocates and legal scholars fear that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama may resurrect the military commissions designed by his predecessor to try Guantánamo detainees after Obama's 120-day moratorium on proceedings expires on May 20. That...
Lawmakers Try to Block New Abuse Photos
Civil libertarians are condemning a call by two influential U.S. senators for the White House to block the impending release of photographs showing detainees being abused by U.S. military personnel at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and at other U.S. detention...
Congress Resists Guantánamo Releases
As lawmakers amped up the outcry against releasing Guantánamo "terrorists in our neighborhoods," France agreed to accept a "cleared" Guantánamo prisoner and human rights groups continued to press for release of 17 Chinese Uighurs the...
Unwieldy Terror Watchlist Hits a Million
Hundreds of thousands of people are being wrongly identified because of the government's wasteful and inefficient management of the nation's one million-strong terrorist watchlist, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The organization cited a recent...
Psychologists Under Fire for Role in Interrogations
A leading human rights organization is charging that an American Psychological Association (APA) task force formed to advise the U.S. military on prisoner interrogations was "stacked with Defense Department and [George W.] Bush Administration officials" and...
Britain Tries to Block CIA Rendition Case
British High Court judges are expected to rule this week on whether a document by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency can be publicly disclosed, thus opening the courthouse door to a lawsuit charging that the British government was complicit in facilitating the...
Obama Considers Revamping Military Trials
Reports circulating in Washington suggest that President Barack Obama may try to revive the military commission system for prosecuting Guantánamo detainees, which Obama himself criticized during the administration of his predecessor, former president George W....
