Tag Torture

CIA’s bungled Italy job Sloppy use of cell phones, other missteps help police unravel cleric’s 2003 abduction. The trick is known to just about every two-bit crook in the cellular age: If you don’t want the cops to know where…

More is revealed about the depravity of the CIA, who of course, are an arm of the US government. The detainees offer consistent accounts about the facility, saying that U.S. and Afghan guards were not in uniform and that U.S.…

The United States operated a secret prison in Afghanistan as recently as last year, torturing detainees with sleep deprivation, chaining them to the walls and forcing them to listen to loud music in total darkness for days, a human rights…

Both Tony Blair and Jack Straw have had more to say [but little to add] on the unfolding story of Extraordinary Rendition. On Planet Jack, concerns about Rendition Torture and ‘Black Sites’ are nothing more than paranoid fantasy On Planet…

Investigator: U.S. shipped out detainees A European investigator said Tuesday he has found mounting indications the United States illegally held detainees in Europe but then hurriedly shipped out the last ones to North Africa a month ago when word leaked…