Info
Video
Torturing Democracy, an investigation into the sanctioning of torture by the Bush administration
Who Are the Detainees? video from NBC — scoll down the page to find the video
Taxi to the Dark Side examines the murder of an Afghan taxi driver in military custody at Bagram Air Base
The Road to Guantanamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the “War on Terror” two men who survived extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and torture by the U.S. government working with various other governments worldwide.
The Torture Question, PBS Frontline episode on America’s involvement with torture.
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Center for Constitutional Rights
Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International
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Military Commissions Act
(from the Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture)
Q & A on the Military Commissions Act
Statement by religious leaders, 9/26/06
Letter of religious leaders to Senators, 9/27/06
Statement of National Religious Campaign Against Torture
Bush Seeks Immunity for Violating War Crimes Act
Leahy on Limiting Habeas Corpus in Military Tribunal Bill
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Resources
Summary of Report by Senators Levin and McCain detailing the results of the Senate Armed Services Committee investigation into the treatment of detainees in U.S. Custody, December 2008
From slate.com What is Torture? A primer on American Interrogation
Legal Experts Rap Media Ban at Gitmo
The Must-Do List, NY Times Editorial
John Lennon and Mr. Al-Ghizzawi: Two Peas in a Secret Pod
Nat Hentoff: Boeing Helps CIA With Torture Flights
Renditions in the EU: Fact — Not fiction
Pentagon Rules Allow Coerced Detainee Testimony
Canada Compensates Torture Victim Who Lived in Framingham
The Chain of Command
The Legal Memos
Taxonomy of Torture
The Military ReportsWhat’s Lost When Exceptions Become the Norm
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Uses of Torture in Recent Times
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Detainee Stories
Guantánamo and Its Aftermath, U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices and Their Impact on Former Detainees, November 2008
Five Years of My Life, An Innocent Man in Guantanamo, by former detainee Murat Kurnaz
A Detainee’s Story: The Man Who Has Been to America
Abu Ghraib inmates recall torture
Ex-prisoner tells of torture at Guantanamo
Former Guantanamo Prisoner Kurnaz Reveals Extent of Torture
In Letter, Radical Cleric Details CIA Abduction, Egyptian Torture
Maher Arar: This is What They Did to Me
Sworn Statements by Abu Ghraib Detainees
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Articles
Vanity Fair, Tortured Reasoning, December 2008
Vanity Fair, The Green Light, May 2008
Washington Monthly, No More. No Torture. No Exceptions, Jan/Feb/March (2008)
Mother Jones, When the Unthinkable Becomes Acceptable, March 2008
Village Voice, The Torture Doctors, May 2007
New Amnesty International Report Condemns Conditions in Guantánamo, April 2007
From the Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture
U.S. Interrogating at Ethiopia’s Secret Prisons
AP Gets Shocking New Report on Gitmo
US Military Wants War Crimes Compound for Gitmo Detainees
Lawyers Fight for Habeas Rights
A Topic in the Air but One That Political Candidates Declined to Touch: Torture of Prisoners
Military Commissions Act Shames the Constitution and Weakens America
Bush Tribunal Plan Ignores Supreme Court Ruling
Bush Aims to Kill War Crimes Act
Public Rejects Nearly All Forms of Torture
Americans, especially Catholics, approve of torture
Articles in Christianity Today including 5 Reasons Torture is Always Wrong by David P. Gushee