Sentences with phrase «torture terrorist suspects»

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At a campaign event in Orlando, Fla. on Saturday, the Republican frontrunner told supporters that he would broaden laws regarding torture of terrorist suspects, CNN reports.

The documentary accuses the CIA, which had been heavily criticized for its use of waterboarding and other forms of torture in its treatment of Al Qaeda suspects, of using Bigelow to push its own agenda — to show that torture yielded actionable intelligence, that waterboarding got a suspect to give up information that led the CIA to the most wanted terrorist on earth.

The CIA misled the White House about the extent of the torture being used, and what may be even worse, torturing suspected terrorists proved ultimately ineffective.

Today, after much protestation, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report of the CIA's torture and «enhanced interrogation» techniques used in against suspected terrorists following 9/11.

An inquiry into whether Britain has been complicit in torture of terrorist suspects will take place, William Hague has confirmed.

Some on the left find themselves cheering at Ken Clarke's plan to ditch short prison sentences, the scrapping of ID cards, the suspension of stop - and - search, the reining in of CCTV and an inquiry into British complicity in the torture of suspected terrorists.

IN 2006, the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh was informed that the CIA was torturing suspected terrorists with fire ants.

As Americans flock to the movie, Zero Dark Thirty, by the brilliant and gifted director, Kathryn Bigelow (whom Naomi Wolf appositely named the new Leni Riefenstahl, «torture's handmaiden» and «apologist for evil») to rejoice in the apparent success of the U.S. government's plan for sodomizing and water boarding suspected Muslim terrorists, no U.S. citizen, whether living within or outside the U.S., is safe from drone surveillance or assassination.

Trevor Paglen's series of documents, Seventeen Letters from the Deep State (2011), are photocopies of what appear to be forged US State Department letters authorizing «extraordinary rendition,» the illegal transfer of suspected terrorists outside the bounds of legally protected territories for the purpose of gathering intelligence via torture.

By now, most agree that John Yoo and other former Justice Department attorneys gave the Bush administration shoddy advice on the legality of torturing suspected terrorists.

If the question of whether use of torture in military interrogations of terrorist suspects were a law school exam question, I would bet that Yoo would have gotten extra points for coming up with the «self - defense» argument, or for arguing that executive power during a time of war trumps other considerations.

[217] Special Rapporteur Martin Scheinin wrote in his October 2009 report that, while there had been «a small number of cases where police officers have been subject to investigations and trial following torture complaints,» he was «troubled that complaints against SSI officers in this regard have produced no results,» and «gravely concerned» by information that terrorist suspects subjected to detention by SSI officers were at particular risk of torture.

The Tories, said Straw, want a Bill of Rights which gives greater national sovereignty and allows us to deport suspected foreign terrorists to likely torture with greater ease.