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Justice: American Style

11 August, 2010 (21:05) | Canada | No comments

In the first full war crimes tribunal of the Obama administration, a military judge held that a detainee who confessed to killing an American solider after he was threatened with being gang-raped to death if he did not cooperate may nonetheless have that confession used against him at trial: From Think Progress In May hearings, [...]

Guantanamo Suicides

19 January, 2010 (07:57) | Political, War | No comments

Since about November there have been reports that the three Gitmo prisoners that “committed suicide” all at the same time in separate quarters were in fact murdered by US troops stationed there. Keith Olbermann talks with Scott Horton, of Harper’s magazine, who is breaking this story in the February issue of Harper’s. Visit msnbc.com for [...]

Justice Not Served

8 November, 2009 (16:00) | Political | No comments

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Torturing Democracy

16 October, 2008 (17:53) | Political | No comments

When the publication of the photographs from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq made prisoner abuse an international controversy in April, 2004, both the National Security Archive and Washington Media Associates were already pursuing the story. Award-winning producer Sherry Jones was in the final stages of editing the first full-length television investigation of the Administration’s detention [...]

 

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