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In his congressional testimony last week, former Justice Department official and torture architect John Yoo sought to discredit torture critic PhilippeSands by suggesting that Sands had lied to a House subcommittee about interviewing him. In fact, Sands never made any such claim. Today, MoJo blog reports that Sands has written a letter to Yoo [...]
Last week, while testifying before Congress, torture fanatic John Yoo sought to discredit torture critic PhilippeSands by suggesting Sands had lied about interviewing him. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) used the allegation to claim it “would perhaps reflect on the veracity” of all of Sands’ allegations: YOO: I did read Mr. Sands’ testimony before this committee, [...]
Testomony of PhilippeSands at the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Sands reflects on the Britian’s experience with the IRA and argues that torture does not help eliminate threats. PhilippeSands is the Professor of International law at University College London and part of the British Queen’s Counsel. Recently he has written, “Torture...
Testifying today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, British international law professor PhilippeSands said that waterboarding is “torture in all circumstances”: There’s no one I can think of in the United Kingdom who would not immediately conclude that the use of waterboarding, which is creating the misperception of suffocation, is torture in all circumstances. In his book [...]
... in his book, What Happened , how deliberately the public was misled to foment the attack on Iraq. PhilippeSands’ new book, Torture Team , has shown how the top legal and political leadership fought for a policy of torture–circumventing and misleading top military officials to do so. Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side , reveals that a secret report by the Red Cross–given to the CIA and shared...
... has revealed in his book, , how deliberately the public was misled to foment the attack on Iraq. PhilippeSands' new book, , has shown how the top legal and political leadership fought for a policy of torture -- circumventing and misleading top military officials to do so. Jane Mayer's , reveals that a secret report by the Red Cross -- given to the CIA and shared with President Bush...
In May, British international lawyer PhilippeSands told Vanity Fair that Iraq war architect Doug Feith was instrumental in the Bush administration’s shredding of the Geneva Conventions. Feith “took the steps to ensure that none of these detainees could rely on Geneva,” Sands said. In a house hearing today, Feith disputed Sands’s interview, calling it [...]
Doug Feith was on the Hill today to testify about the interrogation techniques in Guantanamo. Joining him before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties was his nemesis, PhilippeSands, who goes back a ways...
Pacifica Radio is broadcasting a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Bush torture regime beginning at 9 a.m. EDT today. Scheduled witnesses include Former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith and PhilippeSands, author of Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values . Feith was interviewed at length by Sands, but Feith denied having implicated fellow...
From Spencer Ackerman: > In last week's interminable Yoo/Addington hearing, John Yoo accused Vanity Fair reporter and Torture Team author PhilippeSands of lying about interviewing him. Brian Beutler... tracked Sands down.... > > The idea, of course, is that someone who hates America so much that he's willing to fabricate all sorts of untrue allegations about Yoo (and, perhaps,...
This really isn't big fucking news. In The Torture Team , PhilippeSands explains in great detail how the current techniques of American Torture were mostly cribbed from the SERE training from the Armed Forces. As someone who went through SERE, let me speak from experience. It was sadistic bullshit run by sick fucking bullies. It was some real REMF puke sons of bitches getting their jollies...
This really isn't big fucking news. In The Torture Team , PhilippeSands explains in great detail how the current techniques of American Torture were mostly cribbed from the SERE training from the Armed Forces. As someone who went through SERE, let me speak from experience. It was sadistic bullshit run by sick fucking bullies. It was some real REMF puke sons of bitches getting their jollies...
PhilippeSands, an international lawyer and chronicler of the legal and moral abuses of the Bush administration, has come out with a new book on the torture. (He doesn't call it "harsh" or "enhanced interrogation techniques," preferring the language used...
... another man who testified to the Senate Judiciary Committe was British international law professor PhilippeSands said that waterboarding is “torture in all circumstances”:There’s no one I can think of in the United Kingdom who would not immediately conclude that the use of waterboarding, which is creating the misperception of suffocation, is torture in all circumstances.In his book...
