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THE EVIDENCE: INVESTIGATIONS
The U.S. Senate has acknowledged that the U.S. has engaged in torture. These links point toward the mounting body of evidence.
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Writers, Journalists and NGOs
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Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture
With Essays by Mark Danner, Barbara Ehrenreich, and others
North Atlantic Books, 2004
American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond
By Michael Otterman
Pluto Press, 2007
Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice
By Eric Lichtblau
Pantheon, 2008
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
By Seymour M Hersh
Harper Perennial, 2005
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
By Jane Mayer
Doubleday, 2008
The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 759 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison
By Andy Worthington
Pluto Press, 2007
Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War
By Tara McKelvey
Basic Books, 2007
Standard Operating Procedure
By Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris
The Penguin Press HC, 2008
State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
By James Risen
Free Press, 2006
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror
By Mark Danner
New York Review of Books, 2004
The Trials of Abu Ghraib: An Expert Witness Account of Shame and Honor
By S. G. Mestrovic
Paradigm Publishers, 2005
Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror
By Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Z. Huq
The New Press, 2007
CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
A series of articles by Dana Priest
The Washington Post
March 3 – December 30, 2005
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Guantanamo: Beyond the Law
A series of articles by Tom Lasseter
McClatchy Newspapers
June 15-19, 2008
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“US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites”
By Mark Danner
The New York Review of Books
April 9, 2009
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“Beyond Abu Ghraib: detention and torture in Iraq”
Amnesty International
March 2006
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“Break Them Down: The Systematic Use of Psychological Torture by U.S. Forces”
By Physicians for Human Rights
May 2005
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“Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact”
By Physicians for Human Rights
June 2008
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“Command’s Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan”
By Human Rights First
February 2006
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“Getting Away With Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees”
By Human Rights Watch
April 2005
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“Leave No Marks: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of Criminality”
By Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights First
August 2007
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“Report of the Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the Treatment by the Coalition Forces of Prisoners of War and Other Protected Persons by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq During Arrest, Internment, and Interrogation”
By The International Committee of the Red Cross
February 2004
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“Torture by Proxy: International and Domestic Law Applicable to ‘Extraordinary Renditions’”
By The Committee on International Human Rights of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice
New York University School of Law
2004, modified in June 2006
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Governmental
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The Abu Ghraib Investigations: The Official Independent Panel and Pentagon Reports on the Shocking Prisoner Abuse in Iraq
Edited by Steven Stresser
Public Affairs, 2004
Taguba Report, Article 1506, Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade
January 2004
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Mikolashek Report on Detainee Operations Inspection
July 2004
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Investigation of Intelligence Activities at Abu Ghraib Prison and 205th Military Intelligence Brigade 10
MG George R. Fay & LTG Anthony R. Jones
U.S. Army
2004
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Investigation into FBI Allegations of Detainee Abuse at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Detention Facility
Gen. Randall Schmidt & Brig. Gen. John Furlow
U.S. Army
April 1, 2005 (amended June 9, 2005)
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Army Surgeon General Report, Assessment of Detainee Medical Operations for OEF, GTMO and OIF
May 24, 2005
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Report No. 06-INTEL-10: Review of DoD-Directed Investigations of Detainee Abuse (U)
Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense
August 25, 2006, declassified May 18, 2007
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A Review of the FBI’s Involvement in and Observation of Detainee Interrogations in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq
Office of the Inspector General
U.S. Dept. of Justice
May 2008
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Inquiry Into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody
Senate Armed Services Committee
December 11, 2008
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