Bush-Cheney administration/torture
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Overview
There have been persistent reports, many of them documented, of official use of torture as a part of the War on Terror during George W. Bush's administration.
The first such incident to come to light was the Abu Ghraib abuses, but there have been others (e.g. Guantánamo).
Publicly, administration officials and spokespeople deny sanctioning or approving of torture, but certain of their legislative efforts appear to contradict this stance.
Notes
Apparently Senator John McCain tried to add an amendment (to the 2006 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill) which would have banned "torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners"; VP Cheney has been campaigning hard to have the amendment modified to exempt the CIA from the ban. This article apparently describes what ultimately happened.
News
- 2006-09-16 Bush's Fight with Congress over Torture Defines Our Character
- 2006-05-23 How Torture Became Mainstream by Alfred W. McCoy, Amnesty International
- 2005-11-07 Cheney Fights for Detainee Policy by Dana Priest and Robin Wright, Washington Post Staff Writers
Blog Posts
- "Body and Soul" blog:
- 2005-11-07 14:55, 15:40
- 2005-11-09
- 2005-11-11