torture

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-13-18
  

  France’s Macron admits to military’s systematic use of torture in Algeria war

  France will formally acknowledge the French military’s systemic use of torture in the Algerian War in the 1950s and 1960s, an unprecedented step forward in grappling with its long-suppressed legacy of colonial crimes.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archives
  8/10/18
  

  Gina Haspel CIA Torture Cables Declassified

  The CIA director described extended sessions of physical violence and waterboarding.

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• 5/13/18
  

  The Misleading Rationales for Gina Haspel's Nomination as CIA Director

  by John Prados

  They include her promise not to torture people.  

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5/10/18
  

  Gina Haspel Says C.I.A. ‘Historically’ Has Not Interrogated Subjects. History Shows Otherwise.

  Fact check.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  4/26/18
  

  Gina Haspel’s CIA Torture File

  The Trump administration’s nominee to be CIA director, Gina Haspel, personally supervised the torture of a CIA detainee in 2002 leading to at least three waterboard sessions.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  9-9-17
  

  The CIA's Tortured Historical Amnesia

  by Kristie Macrakis

  What to do about it.

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• 2-5-17
  

  To Torture or Not to Torture? Are We Seriously Still Asking this Question?

  by James Stejskal

  While our new president contemplates the renewed use of enhanced interrogation techniques, we would do well to remember where the discussion of the Law of Land Warfare and torture originated. It was in Washington DC 155 years ago.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  1-27-17
  

  Torture works . . . to produce Fake News (and that’s how we Got into Iraq)

  by Juan Cole

  The psychopaths in the White House will be perfectly happy to run with the fake news gained from torture and use it to bamboozle the public for their own nefarious purposes.

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• SOURCE: The Cambodian Daily
  8-3-16
  

  French Historian Accuses Khmer Rouge Defense Lawyers of "Cold Torture"

  Henri Locard, retired academic from the Université Lumière - Lyon, is testifying about the brutality of the regime at a trial in Phnom Penh.

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• 7-28-15
  

  The History Lesson the American Psychological Association Forgot

  by Sarah Bridger

  The APA needed a debate about torture just as physicists during the Cold War had to decide if scientists should be held accountable for the consequences of their research.

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now
  6-15-15
  

  Historian Peter Linebaugh says Magna Carta provisions were violated at Guantanamo Bay (interview)

  "You take chapter 39 of Magna Carta, probably the most famous clause. That is, you can still find it on courthouses in the United States. You can still find it in old constitutional books. It prohibits torture."

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5-31-15
  

  The Secret Origins of the CIA’s Torture Program and the Forgotten Man Who Tried to Expose It

  by Barbara Myers

  Anthony Russo, the “other conspirator” of the Pentagon Papers, shouldn't be left in history’s trash bin.

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  5-18-15
  

  Skulls Suggest Violence Used as a Tool of Political Control

  Three skulls found in Bolivia have revealed that torture for reasons other than religious rituals and trophy-head taking was not just an iconographic feature of the pre-Columbian cultures in the region, but a very real practice.

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• 12-22-14
  

  Are We a Great Nation?

  by Steve Hochstadt

  Now we know a lot more about the role of torture in America.

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• 12-22-14
  

  Current and Former Intelligence Officers Have Been Playing Americans for Chumps

  by John Prados

  The CIA gave access to secret documents to former employees that it denied to the public, so they could trash the Senate report.

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• 12-21-14
  

  How to Read the Senate Report on CIA Torture

  by Alfred W. McCoy

  With the release of this Senate report and the media’s pursuit of the facts behind its obfuscations, the full story of abuse, fabrication, and dissimulation inside the CIA is finally starting to emerge.

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• 12-18-14
  

  The Forgotten Futility of Torture - An Analysis

  by Lawrence Davidson

  It has long been known that torture does not work. One can go back to the Enlightenment.

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• SOURCE: History Channel Documentary
  10-18-14
  

  A history of torture (video)

  The long nightmarish history of man’s inhumanity to man.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  12-16-14
  

  The CIA Twisted The Legacy Of A Vietnam War Protest To Justify Torture

  The CIA insists it didn’t torture people. But in defense of its actions, it claimed the right to break the law.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  12-15-14
  

  They Said ‘No’ to Torture: The Real Heroes of the Bush Years

  by Jon Wiener

  Hidden in the Senate torture report are stories of some heroes—people inside the CIA who from the beginning said torture was wrong, who tried to stop it, who refused to participate.