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Evidence of Kavanaugh Perjury Mounts After Durbin Releases More "Confidential" Documents

Email Marked 'Confidential' by GOP Shows Kavanaugh Pushed for John Yoo, Legal Architect of Bush Torture Program, to Be a Federal Judge

Julia Conley, staff writer

Trump nominee for U.S. Supreme Court believed author of notorious memos providing legal cover for those torturing human beings would be great as lifetime pick for Ninth Circuit

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Demanding End to 'Unprecedented' Secrecy, Senators Say Kavanaugh May Have Perjured Himself About Role in Post-9/11 Torture Program

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"Release documents from Judge Kavanaugh's time in the White House in the same...

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Though "Too Late" Now, Cables From Secret CIA Black Site Read Like Gina Haspel's "Torture Journaling"

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Haspel

Critics say this "detailed account" of the CIA director's role "in horrendous...

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A new report finds that individual Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents could be held personally liable for the suffering of families and children under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.

Legal Scholars Warn ICE Agents That 'Just Following Orders' Won't Save Them

'Abu Ghraib for Eighth-Graders': Allegations of Immigrant Children Being Tortured at Virginia Detention Facility

A Witness Against Torture protest at NYC City Hall on June 26, 2012. (Photo: Felton Davis/flickr/cc)

On Prison's 6,000th Day, Groups Demand Trump "Choose Justice Over Inhumanity" and #CloseGitmo

Gina Haspel

'Black Mark in Our History': Six Democrats Join GOP to Confirm Torturer Gina Haspel as CIA Chief

CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel

Democrats Shamed for Supporting Gina Haspel, CIA Nominee Who Oversaw 'Chaining Detainees to Ceiling for Days, Naked or in Diapers'

'Beyond Shameful': Democrats Warner, Heitkamp, and Nelson Announce Support for Torturer Gina Haspel

Gina Haspel

With Haspel Confirmation Pending, Torture Opponents Target Fence-Sitters Flake, Heitkamp, and Others

'Moral Free-Fall' Exposed by Media Frenzy Over Trump Aide's John McCain Comment

'Well, This Didn't Take Long': Endorsing Gina Haspel for CIA, Dick Cheney Says Bring Back Torture Program

"One of the things I found was astounding was she said the CIA has historically not been in the business of interrogations. What on Earth is she talking about?" (Photo: Screenshot)

Jeremy Scahill: Obama Paved Way for Haspel to Head CIA by Failing to Hold Torturers Accountable

With Chance to Denounce Torture, Why Have These Democrats Not Said They Are a "No" on Haspel?

Watch: Confirmation Hearing for CIA Director Nominee Gina Haspel Underway

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Secrecy Inc: Activists Sue CIA Over Spying On Classified Report On Covert Torture Program

Because no one has yet been held accountable for U.S. torture practices widely deemed "sadistic and terrifying," two open-government and FOIA activists are suing the CIA for its continued secrecy about its alleged secret surveillance of Senate lawmakers secretly investigating secret Bush-era torture. Welcome to the most transparent - and Kafkaesque - administration in history.

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Reprieve

Review of UK Torture Policy Launched in U-turn From Theresa May

Reprieve

David Davis Joins Calls for Public Inquiry Into Torture

Amnesty International - USA

Disappearances and Torture in Southern Yemen Detention Facilities Must Be Investigated as War Crimes

Reprieve

Government Considering Judge-led Inquiry into Torture and Rendition

Reprieve

EU Anti-Torture Ruling Shows Need For UK Public Inquiry

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

CCR in Disbelief at Confirmation of Gina Haspel, Outraged Former Head of CIA Torture Site Now CIA Director

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Jamil Dakwar

Trump Administration Threatens International Criminal Court Judges and Prosecutors for Doing Their Jobs

Rebecca Gordon

Holding the Line on Torture

Hina Shamsi, Corey Stoughton

The Shadow of Torture Behind Trump’s Britain Visit

Karen Greenberg

A Children’s Gitmo on the Border: Heartless America’s Latest Nightmare

Brian Tashman

The Government Has Information on Gina Haspel’s Torture Record. The Senate Can’t See It.

Katherine Krueger

WaPo Positions Support for Torturer as Vote for Feminism

Brian Terrell

Two Interrogations, Gina Haspel and Adolf Eichmann

John Feffer

The Banality of Haspel

Sondra Crosby, Brock Chisholm

We Have Evaluated Torture Survivors. Gina Haspel Cannot Head the CIA.

Karen Greenberg

The Hearings for Trump’s CIA Pick Should Prompt a Reckoning With Torture

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