Democracy Now! | 24 Dec 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgunfQWaLv0?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] AMY GOODMAN: Richard Clarke also says he believes President George W. Bush is guilty of war crimes for launching the 2003 invasion of Iraq. RICHARD CLARKE: I think things that they authorized probably fall within the area of war crimes. Whether that would be productive or not,…
New York Times | 21 Dec 2014 Since the day President Obama took office, he has failed to bring to justice anyone responsible for the torture of terrorism suspects — an official government program conceived and carried out in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He did allow his Justice Department to investigate…
Gareth Porter |Truthout | 17 Dec 2014 The Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report sheds new light on how the CIA created and then continued to protect its false claim that it found Osama bin Laden in part because of its abusive interrogation tactics. The report presents detailed evidence based on reviewing millions of pages of…
Ray McGovern | Consortium News | 20 Dec 2014 Exclusive: America’s reputation for cognitive dissonance is being tested by the Senate report documenting the U.S. government’s torture of detainees and the fact that nothing is happening to those responsible. Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern says the nation must choose between crossing the Delaware or the Rubicon.…
Press TV | 21 Dec 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnk7j7WrE3Q?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] A political commentator says “insiders” mislead the US government to make crucial decisions based on false information they receive from terror suspects under harsh tactics. Speaking to Press TV on Thursday, Jim W. Dean, managing editor of Veterans Today from Atlanta, said the CIA uses very skilful…
Chris Marsden | World Socialist Web Site | 20 December 2014 Innumerable redactions in the 525-page US Senate Intelligence Committee’s executive summary of its report into torture by the CIA cannot conceal the complicity of the major European powers in the horrific crimes perpetrated by US imperialism. Last week it was revealed that Britain had requested that…
NZ Herald | 22 Dec 2014 In the film Zero Dark Thirty, she was the persistent, conscientious CIA officer who finally tracked Osama bin Laden to his lair. In real life, her identity and current position were carefully hidden: until now. Since the release of the controversial US Senate report on the CIA’s use of torture…
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report | 19 Dec 2014 In 1964, the Brazilian military, in a US-designed coup, overthrew a liberal (not more to the left than that) government and proceeded to rule with an iron fist for the next 21 years. In 1979 the military regime passed an amnesty law blocking the prosecution…
Greg Grandin | The Nation | 17 Dec 2014 [AM editor’s note: in case you missed it …] Here’s Seymour Hersh in 2004, referring to a video that as far as I know hasn’t yet surfaced: “This is at Abu Ghraib.… The women were passing messages out saying ‘Please come and kill me, because of…
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network | 15 Dec 2014 Publicly released excerpts of the report of the Senate Committee on the CIA’s secret torture program reveal a vast criminal organization. Thierry Meyssan has read for you the 525 pages of this document. He found evidence of what he has been saying for years. ianne Feinstein,…