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Killing Fields: Long Road to Justice
“An investigation of Khmer Rouge tribunal being held in Cambodia and allegations of corruption”. Further, the investigation began with the hunt for Ta Chan who was the chief interrogator and suspected of living in a remote Cambodian village. Also, torture was a daily experience for many of the prisoners being held and resulted in a number of deaths.
Tags: S-21 prison; camp; trial; charges; jungle; death camp; court; prosecution; horrific; institutions; Vietnamese; crimes
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Inside Gitmo
"Speaking publicly for the first time, senior U.S. law enforcement investigators say they waged a long but futile battle inside the Pentagon to stop coercive and degrading treatment of detainees by intelligence interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."
Tags: Abu Ghraib; Navy; Army; military; prisoner; terrorism; hijack; Mohammed al-Qahtani; Saudi Arabia; Alberto R. Gonzales; interrogation; torture; Guantanamo
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A Trustworthy Lie Detector?
The Computer Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA) is a lie detector "said to be able to determine truth or deception by tone of voice or stress level." The machine has "been sold to hundreds of police departments and the U.S. military," with these organizations using it to put people in jail and interrogate terror suspects even though "not a single scientific study has been done to show the CSVA actually works." The Pentagon has now banned use of the machine. An ABC News investigation discovered that while the machine is sold for $10,000 apiece with claims of 98 percent accuracy, some of its convictions have been overturned. In addition, CSVA creator and National Institute for Truth Verification CEO Dr. Charles Humble is "not a medical doctor and does not have a PHD from an accredited university. Instead, he was awarded a Dr. of Psychology after taking a few hours of bible studies at a bible college which was located in an Indiana strip mall."
Tags: Computer Voice Stress Analyzer; Dr. Charles Humble; prisoner interrogation; Institute for Truth Verification; diploma mills
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America's Interrogation of Terrorists
TIME Magazine's investigation into American interrogation techniques used when questioning Abu Ghraib prisoners reveals massive coverups and mistreatment of terrorist suspects. This series also sheds light on the death of a CIA prisoner whose body was kept on ice for 24 hours to disguise his true cause of death.
Tags: Abu Ghraib; interrogation techniques; CIA; FOIA; health care; prison; Manadel al-Jamadi
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Reporting series on Abu Ghraib
This investigative series on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal reveals that the Bush administration knew about the interrogation methods being used. Breaking all rules of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration had declared as soon as the war on Iraq started that the conventions were not going to be adhered to. Backed by a paper trail of documents from the White House, these journalists revealed that the military personnel higher in the ranks, and not just the MP's were involved.
Tags: Abu Ghraib; Geneva Conventions; Bush; George W Bush; White House; White House sources; military; US military; torture during war; war crimes
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Iraqi Prison Abuse
Reporters went beyond Abu Ghraib to find evidence of widespread prisoner abuse. This series of stories revealed the brutal interrogation tactics the U.S. military was using to torture Iraqi prisoners and, in a few cases, to kill them. The prisoners who did die did not receive autopsies or were classified as dying by natural causes. The investigation further revealed contradictions made by the Pentagon.
Tags: Iraq; prison; abuse; torture; military; Pentagon; Afghanistan
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"U.S. accused of torture flights," "American Gulag"
This investigation by Grey, a free-lance writer, reveals how U.S. intelligence agencies are flying terrorist suspects to countries with poor human rights records to interrogate them. Though the American government denies allegations of using such "torture by proxy" tactics, confidential travel logs detail trips to Egypt, Syria and Uzbekistan where witnesses say the prisoners are tortured.
Tags: terrorism; terror; torture; interrogation; CIA; Central Intelligence Agency
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The Devil's Chair
The Progressive "investigated the restraint chair, a popular restraining device used in jails and prisons" and "revealed that at least eleven people have died since 1984 after being placed in restraint chairs..." The story "revealed widespread abuse - including torture - of prisoners in the chairs." Some of the major findings included the use of chair "for punishment of nonthreatening behavior" and cases when "prisoners have been interrogated" or "required to testify while in restraint chairs." The reporter also found that "jails, state and federal prisons, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the U.S. Marshals Service, state mental hospitals, juvenile detention centers are all equipped with the chair."
Tags: diskette; FOIA; Amnesty International; prisons; torture
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The Lori Berenson Papers
The Nation tells the story of a 26-year-old American woman who was sentenced to life in prison in Peru for treason. Now documents obtained by the magazine reveal hasty police work and negligent interrogation. Is she innocent or guilty? The question still remains unanswered.
Tags: American spy; traitor; Lori Berenson
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America's Top-Secret Spy War
U.S. News & World Report conducts a six month investigation using 10,000 classified records which had been sealed away at the National Archives for nearly 30 years. The records and more than 150 follow-up interviews reveal an aggressive U.S. espionage campaign whose full scope has never before been disclosed.