Former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, "I left the foreign office over the issue of MI6 allowing the use of intelligence obtained during torture. They take torture intelligence coming out of Uzbekistan and pass it on to the CIA."

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6179


From Information Clearing House

Report

The White House is maintaining extraordinary restrictions on information about the detention of high-level terror suspects by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), permitting only a small number of Congress members to be briefedon the issue

http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/04/06/news/detain.html


From Information Clearing House

Manfred Nowak met Monday afternoon with Pierre Prosper, the American ambassador-at-large for war crimes, and said U.S. officials refused to guarantee him the right to speak to detainees in private an "absolute precondition'' for such a visit.

http://cbsnewyork.com/international/UN-US-Guantanamo-ai/resources_news_html


From Information Clearing House

by Stephen Soldz

An Interpretation After One Year of Revelations

We see that the logic of war, the logic of occupation, the logic of imprisonment, and the post 9/11 logic of revenge all came together in an Iraqi torture center in 2003.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8479.htm

CIA interrogations may have played a role in the deaths of several detainees in Iraq, as Bush administration lawyers were advocating an aggressive interrogation policy that critics say led to torture, military documents and officials say.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8467.htm

Classified documents show the former US military chief in Iraq personally sanctioned measures banned by the Geneva Conventions.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8446.htm

Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?

By Deborah Davies

They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month investigation for BBC Channel 4 . It’s terrible to watch some of the videos and realise that you’re not only seeing torture in action but, in the most extreme cases, you are witnessing young men dying.

Warning this video contains images and descriptions of violent and degrading treatment, which may distress some viewers.

Click here to watch this documentary. Windows Media.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm

Intelligence Czar Resume: Torture, Terror, Illicit Arms
http://www.newswithviews.com/Briley/Patrick7.htm

Army Whitewashes Deaths of Iraq Prisoners: Getting away with murder.

There's no other way to describe the Pentagon's announcement that it is refusing to prosecute any of the 17 U.S. soldiers who contributed to the deaths of three prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004. The decision is against the recommendations of the Army's own investigators.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8442.htm

New revelations about ongoing brutality at Abu Ghraib.

By Paul Rockwell

Delgado says he observed mutilation of the dead, trophy photos of dead Iraqis, mass roundups of innocent noncombatants, positioning of prisoners in the line of fire—all violations of the Geneva conventions. His own buddies—decent, Christian men, as he describes them—shot unarmed prisoners.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8441.htm