World-News

CounterPunch
by Steve Hendricks

01/22/11

Exactly two years have passed since President Obama banned the United States from torturing captives ? sort of. More precisely, he banned the United States from torturing captives directly. He left intact the option of sending captives elsewhere to be tortured...

http://counterpunch.org/hendricks01212011.html



America?s treatment of detainees

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/23/11

Both Mukasey and Wittes are speaking for the consensus of America's political class. They -- and it -- literally believe that anyone acting as part of the American government should be able to get away with murder -- which they'll argue in between sermons on the evils of other nations' human rights abuses and the need for the U.S. to 'do more' to stop such abuses...

http://salon.com/a/s8CQfAA


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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