06.10.2009 9:00 pm

Shame and insecurity

Detainees at Guantanom Bay Naval Base, Cuba. AP Photo/Shane T.McCoy, U.S. Navy

Detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. AP Photo/Shane T.McCoy, U.S. Navy

It’s no secret that during the Bush administration, the Central Intelligence Agency “rendered” suspected terrorists to overseas facilities where they were subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Some sessions were recorded…

Tags: ACLU, CIA, eddie roth, enhanced interrogation techniques, Leon Panetta, torture

06.25.2008 3:47 pm

Torture: Who and by whom, how and how bad

By Eric Mink

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

My column today pulls together and reflects on last week’s three major developments in America’s ongoing effort to understand how the Bush administration came to approve and use abusive interrogation techniques on prisoners — something that violates every principle of…

Tags: Afghanistan, Alberto Mora, Bush administration, enhanced interrogation techniques, Eric Mink, Guantanamo Bay, interrogation, investigative journalism, Iraq, McClatchy D.C. bureau, Physicians for Human Rights, Sen. Carl Levin, Sen. Claire McCaskill, Sen. Jack Reed, Sen. Susan Collins, Senate Armed Services Committee, torture, William Haynes II

Shame and insecurity

Torture: Who and by whom, how and how bad

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