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| | Ask Amnesty: Torture |
 | | The use of torture would violate countless international agreements the United States has signed and ratified, including the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Convention against Torture. | | | Amnesty International has documented torture in more than 150 countries, including the United States. | | | Is torture 'effective' and 'regrettably' permissible in these cases? |
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http://www.amnestyusa.org/askamnesty/torture200112.html
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| | B'Tselem - Torture |
| | In September 1999, the High Court of Justice ruled that some of the interrogation methods used by the GSS against Palestinian detainees were illegal and unacceptable. | | | International law views torture in the same way that it views slavery, genocide, and war crimes: all are unjustifiable under any circumstances. | | | Since the High Courts decision of 1999, attempts have been made to enact a statute that would permit the GSS to use torture. |
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http://www.btselem.org/English/Torture/Index.asp
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| | Torture MetaFilter |
| | Torture is prohibited by law throughout the United States. | | | Every act constituting torture under the Convention constitutes a criminal offense under the law of the United States. | | | November 9, 2005 8:57 PM 'Torture is prohibited by law throughout the United States. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/46535
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| | Torture |
| | Citizens who engage in torture ordered by the state may argue that their role is to act in obedience to and on behalf of the state, regardless of their personal views. | | | The citizens of a state, including those who engage in torture, may claim that the state is the source of legitimacy and whatever procedures the state initiates must by definition be considered legitimate. | | | Whatever ideal the system of laws has set forth to protect individuals from torture, the day-to-day practice of law enforcement may create conditions in which torture is allowed or even encouraged for members of certain groups that fall below the law's protection. |
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http://kspope.com/torvic/torture-abst.php
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| | Torture |
| | The notion of torture warrants is supposedly analogous to surveillance and telephone interception warrants issued to police by a magistrate or other judicial officer. | | | And when torture — as opposed to, for example, flogging as a form of corporal punishment — is used as a form of punishment it typically has as a proximate, and in part constitutive, purpose to break the victim's will. | | | A further reason to disparage the utility of torture warrants is that, again unlike telephone and surveillance warrants, torture warrants are to be issued only in extreme emergencies. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/torture
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| | Alan Dershowitz's Tortuous Torturous Argument |
| | That is, whether or not the United States government should use torture as a method of interrogation for suspected terrorists is now a subject of debate. | | | If the law is changed so that torture is permitted (with warrant), then it's only become complaint with the rule of law because that rule has been changed to accept it. | | | Judges should have to issue a "torture warrant" in each case. |
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http://www.spectacle.org/0202/seth.html
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| | LET AMERICA TAKE ITS CUES FROM ISRAEL REGARDING TORTURE |
| | An application for a torture warrant would have to be based on the absolute need to obtain immediate information in order to save lives coupled with probable cause that the suspect had such information and is unwilling to reveal it. | | | The goal of the warrant would be to reduce and limit the amount of torture that would, in fact, be used in an emergency. | | | Under my proposal, no torture would be permitted without a "torture warrant'' being issued by a judge. |
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http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0102/torture.asp
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| | LEGAL STANDARDS APPLICABLE UNDER 18 U.S.C. §§ 2340-2340A |
| | In light of the President's directive that the United States not engage in torture, it would not be appropriate to rely on parsing the specific intent element of the statute to approve as lawful conduct that might otherwise amount to torture. | | | The CAT, among other things, obligates state parties to take effective measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under their jurisdiction, and requires the United States, as a state party, to ensure that acts of torture, along with attempts and complicity to commit such acts, are crimes under U.S. law. | | | There is no exception under the statute permitting torture to be used for a "good reason." Thus, a defendant's motive (to protect national security, for example) is not relevant to the question whether he has acted with the requisite specific intent under the statute. |
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http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/18usc23402340a2.htm
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| | Torture - Free Encyclopedia |
| | Torture is prohibited by the UN Convention Against Torture, and is considered a severe violation of human rights. | | | The United States includes this right in the fifth amendment to its constitution, which in turn serves as the basis of the Miranda warning that is issued to individuals upon their arrest. | | | Methods of Execution to carry out Capital Punishment |
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http://www.wacklepedia.com/t/to/torture.html
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| | UN Convention Against Torture |
| | Each State Party shall ensure in its legal system that the victim of an act of torture obtains redress and has an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation including the means for as full rehabilitation as possible. | | | Each State Party shall ensure that any statement which is established to have been made as a result of torture shall not be invoked as evidence in any proceedings, except against a person accused of torture as evidence that the statement was made. | | | The provisions of this Convention are without prejudice to the provisions of any other international instrument or national law which prohibit cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment or which relate to extradition or expulsion. |
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http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cat.html
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| | Citizen's Rent 2005: Gonzales Torture Memo |
| | The White House has referred to this memo as a historic or scholarly review of laws and conventions concerning torture and not a document designed to provide advice on specific methods or techniques. | | | The State Dept's position is that the advantages of applying the Geneva Conventions outweighs the advantages of not applying them. | | | Links to source documents, including many of the memos, can be found on the right hand navigation bar. |
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http://kbonline.typepad.com/random/2004/11/gonzales_tortur.html
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| | Torture, Racism, & the Sovereign President |
| | More so than other modes of torture, this type of contract crime may be ordered mainly for reasons of deterrence—i.e., to teach an object lesson to all people who fall afoul of the U.S., regardless of their national origin. | | | The legal prohibition on torture is absolute and unambiguous and can never be justified under any conditions. | | | Thereafter he used the “war on terror&; and his commander-in-chief authority to expand the little known “state-secrets privilege,” for which no constitutional foundation exists, in order to prevent the courts from discovering what crimes he has directed the CIA to commit. |
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http://zmagsite.zmag.org/JulAug2005/bix0705.html
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| | Torture (Harpers.org) |
| | (the prohibition against torture) must be construed as inapplicable to interrogations undertaken pursuant to his commander-in-chief authority." The report further argued that the president has the "inherent" authority to set aside laws and that consequently his subordinates could not be prosecuted for violating anti-torture laws. | | | A British court, acting under the legal principle of “universal jurisdiction,” convicted a man named Faryadi Zardad on torture charges for events that took place while Zardad lived in Afghanistan, where he would often unleash a “human dog”--a crazed man he kept in a hole--on captives he was holding for ransom. | | | Attorney General John Ashcroft denied that the president authorized the use of torture on suspected terrorists, he refused to give Congress several memorandums by Justice Department lawyers laying out ways that interrogators could evade anti-torture laws. |
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http://www.harpers.org/Torture.html
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| | Human Rights Watch - Torture - Abuse of Detainees - Iraq - Afghanistan |
| | Second Periodic Report of the United States of America to the Committee Against Torture | | | Detainees have died under questionable circumstances while incarcerated. | | | Torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading practices should be as unthinkable as slavery. |
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http://hrw.org/campaigns/torture.htm
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| | How to Interrogate Terrorists by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal Winter 2005 |
| | The pressure on the Pentagon to outlaw stress techniques won’t abate, as the American Civil Liberties Union continues to release formerly classified government documents obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit concerning detention and interrogation. | | | In the summer of 2002, the CIA sought legal advice about permissible interrogation techniques for the recently apprehended Abu Zubaydah, Usama bin Ladin’s chief recruiter in the 1990s. | | | A Guantánamo lawyer involved in the Kahtani interrogation echoes Mackey: “We were not aware of the [Justice Department and White House] debates.” Interrogators in Iraq were equally unaware of the Bybee memo. |
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http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_1_terrorists.html
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| | Denounce Torture: Denounce Torture Blog |
| | Since there are no official proceedings, there is no way to know whether a particular individual who is taken into custody is a legitimate terror suspect or someone who is innocent of any wrongdoing. | | | See "Top Officer Ordered To Testify on Abuse." | | | Also check out JURIST: Paper Chase's post: "US releases list of Guantanamo Bay detainees." |
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http://blogs.amnestyusa.org/denounce-torture
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| | Torture, by Ignacio Ramonet |
| | The neo-conservative argument deployed by lawyer Alberto Gonzales, former adviser to the president and now US attorney general, runs something like this: America must not allow itself to be “weakened” by respect for human rights. | | | (2) See Stephen Grey, “United States: trade in torture”, | | | New York Times (5) confirmed that torture by the US military was “routine” and that in most cases detainees were not even interrogated. |
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http://mondediplo.com/2005/12/01torture
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| | USATODAY.com - Cheney pushes senators for exemption to CIA torture ban |
| | Cheney told his audience the United States doesn't engage in torture, these participants added, even though he said the administration needed an exemption from any legislation banning "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment in case the president decided one was necessary to prevent a terrorist attack. | | | The vice president made his appeal at a time Congress is struggling with the torture issue in light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and allegations of mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | | | McCain, who was tortured while held as a prisoner during the Vietnam War, is the chief Senate sponsor of an anti-torture provision that has twice cleared the Senate and triggered veto threats from the White House. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-04-cheneytortureban_x.htm
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| | CNN.com - Powell aide: Torture 'guidance' from VP - Nov 20, 2005 |
| | "We are aggressively finding terrorists and bringing them to justice and anything we do within this effort is within the law," the statement said, adding that the United States "does not torture." | | | External sites open in new window; not endorsed by CNN.com | | | Cheney has lobbied against a measure in Congress that would outlaw "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" of prisoners, calling for an exception for the CIA in cases that involve a detainee who may have knowledge of an imminent attack. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/20/torture
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| | Torture: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns |
| | In some countries, including the United States, they can be detained indefinitely in conditions that amount to ill-treatment. | | | Congress passed the anti-torture bill prohibiting the use of torture and inhumane treatment of detainees. | | | International law requires states to extradite or prosecute individuals found in their territory who allegedly committed acts of torture. |
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http://www.amnestyusa.org/stoptorture/index.do
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| | Townhall.com :: Columns :: Tortured reasoning by Thomas Sowell - Nov 22, 2005 |
| | Isolated individuals here and there may abuse their authority and violate existing laws and policies by their treatment of prisoners but the point is that these are in fact violations. | | | Regardless of what the free-wheeling judges in that unpredictable body may end up deciding, they are not likely to decide it soon. | | | There is no penalty for false claims but potentially deadly consequences for letting international terrorists tie up our legal system by exercising rights granted to American citizens and now thoughtlessly extended to people who are not American citizens and who are bent on killing American citizens and destroying American society. |
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http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2005/11/22/176427.html
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| | TomDispatch - Tomgram: David Cole on John Yoo and the Imperial Presidency |
| | He has argued that the federal courts have no right to review actions by the president that are said to violate the War Powers Clause. | | | Any law limiting the president's authority to order torture during wartime, the memo claimed, would "violate the Constitution's sole vesting of the Commander-in-Chief authority in the President." | | | In that memo, Yoo "interpreted" the criminal and international law bans on torture in as narrow and legalistic a way as possible; his evident purpose was to allow government officials to use as much coercion as possible in interrogations. |
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http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=32668
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| | Torture at Abu Ghraib & Guantánamo |
| | PHR's "Dual Loyalty" report, which examines the issue of prison doctors and doctors called in to examine torture victims | | | Haynes Nomination: Judicial Nominee Accused of Supporting Torture of Detainees | | | PHR Urges Retention of McCain Amendment as Vice President Cheney Moves to Legalize Torture |
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http://www.phrusa.org/research/torture/abu_ghraib.html
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| | The Jawa Report: 'Torture' vs 'Torture' (Redux) |
| | Get real, I have no pity for those prisoners. | | | Torture, meaning any form of instituionalized abuse of former combatants or prisoners. | | | The ICRC goes so far as to say that what is going on at Gitmo may be a war crime. |
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http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/063369.php
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| | ABC News: CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described |
| | According to the sources, when an interrogator wishes to use a particular technique on a prisoner, the policy at the CIA is that each step of the interrogation process must be signed off at the highest level — by the deputy director for operations for the CIA. | | | While harsh, they say, they are not torture and are reserved only for the most important and most difficult prisoners. | | | According to a classified report prepared by the CIA Inspector General John Helgerwon and issued in 2004, the techniques "appeared to constitute cruel, and degrading treatment under the (Geneva) convention," the New York Times reported on Nov. 9, 2005. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1322866
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| | Interrogation: A Tortured Debate - Newsweek: World News - MSNBC.com |
| | Last week the White House dismissed news accounts of one such memo, an explosive August 2002 brief from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel disclosed by The Washington Post. | | | The memo, drafted by former OLC lawyer John Yoo, has been widely criticized for seeming to flout conventions against torture. | | | White House officials last week insisted that President Bush had made clear in an early-2002 policy directive that torture would not be used during the interrogation of Qaeda detainees. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5197853/site/newsweek
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| | Technorati Tag: torture |
| | A tag is like a subject or category. | | | Yes they do have a right to see the evidence. | | | Opinion The word desensitization has been used often to describe... |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/torture
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| | Torture (Human Rights Watch, 13-10-2005) |
| | International law has categorically outlawed the practice, yet the global debate around torture—the legality of its use, the extent of its use, its effectiveness—has intensified in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. | | | Sixteen original essays from leading commentators take an unflinching look at one of the most urgent issues of our day. | | | • Argentine Consul Ambassador Hector Timerman gives a harrowing account of the impact of torture on his own family; his father Jacobo Timerman was author of Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number; |
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http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/10/13/global11871.htm
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| | Torture-Testing Web Servers |
| | They are affected by the network bandwidth and latency, the speed and amount of memory on the web server host, and, at high loads, on the speed of the machine that the test script is running on. | | | After multiple unsuccessful attempts, I realized that the laptop could never keep up with the Web server, and reversed the test! | | | While preparing this article I tried to "saturate" a web server running on a high-end desktop machine from the torture script running on a low-end laptop. |
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http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/torture/torture.html
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| | Been in this rap game for like the past four bullets now, y'know? | | | Artist: Method Man Album: Tical 2000: Judgement Day Song: Torture Typed by: Gnesh@aol.com, OHHLA Webmaster DJ Flash Through bein humbles Tru Mast' on da track.. |
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