Stacks of formerly classified documents about a torture program may seem like cold and impersonal things, but what they contain couldn’t be more intimate or harrowingly human.
Posts Tagged “National Security & Human Rights”
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Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: detention, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Larry Siems, National Security & Human Rights, PEN America, torture
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I taught interrogation and the law of war for 18 years to U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine interrogators. The truth—uncontroversial among those who actually interrogate suspects—is that torture is likely to produce faulty information because its victims will say anything to make the pain stop.
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: 9/11 at 10, David R. Irvine, National Security & Human Rights, torture
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On September 11, 2011, Rev. Richard Killmer, Dr. Ingrid Mattson, Rev. Richard Cizik, and Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster discussed the formation of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and their collective work to voice the moral objections of America’s diverse religious communities to the...
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, United States
Topics: 9/11 at 10, Ingrid Mattson, Islamic Society of North America, Nancy Chang, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, National Security & Human Rights, New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, Rabbis for Human Rights – North America, Rachel Kahn-Troster, Richard Cizik, Richard Killmer, torture
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At Bloggingheads.tv, we’ve had more than a dozen experts come on the site and analyze America’s post-9/11 approach to fighting terrorism.
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In the aftermath of 9/11, the question was raised whether it was time for the U.S. to build a “domestic intelligence agency.” Could the attacks have been prevented if the U.S. had had the domestic equivalent of the CIA, like the UK has in its MI5?
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President Obama signed an executive order on his second day in office mandating that Guantánamo be shut within a year, but today, more than two and a half years later, all progress towards closing the place has come to a halt.
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People respect the authority of domestic counterterrorism policing, and seek to help it, not when they fear it, but when they see that authorities are neutral and respectful.
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Ten years after the events of 9/11, it is time for the United States to take stock of, redress, and deter gender-based violations in its counterterrorism policies.
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Even in the days right after 9/11, I don’t think any of us believed that several years later the president of the United States would be asserting publicly the power to seize anyone anywhere in the world, hold them in secret CIA prisons, and interrogate them using torture tactics rejected by our...
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Too often, the debate around how the U.S. treats its national security detainees devolves into a fragmented, polarized, partisan argument. We believe there is a better approach.