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Resources and Articles on Torture
Hi All,
I have made an attempt to pull together various resources on torture. SO much has come up in discussions that I thought I would make an attempt to capture those in one place. I KNOW that this is not complete, and I apologize in advance for leaving anyone out or missing any thing significant. Please feel free to add resources and articles in the comments. I will try to move them into the post.
Links to Source Documents on Torture
Torture Document Dump Timeline. Empty Wheel - excellent source doc list for most recent releases.
Origins of Aggressive Interrogation Techniques. Senator Levin.
Taguba Resport5/04/2004.
CIA KUBARK Manual.
Memorandum for John Rizzion Acting General Counsel fo the CIA. Interrogation of al Qaeda Operative 8/01/02.
ICRC Report on the zTreatment of Fourteen "High value Detainees" in CIA Custody. International Red Cross. 2/2007.
Executive Summary of Torture Investigation
SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE INQUIRY INTO THE TREATMENT OF DETAINEES IN U.S. CUSTODY
The United Nations Issues its 14th Report on the Human Rights Situation in Iraq
Interrogations and Recordings: Relevant 9/11 Commission Requests and CIA Responses. 12/13/2007.
UN Convention Against Torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. HR Web.
Office of Professional Ethics Report Released 5/05/09
TPM Articles on Torture
Mr. President, War Crimes Must Be Investigated. Ruth Rosen. 4/17/2009.
TheraP:
Prison Reform, Mental Health, and Torture. 5/22/09
Does Abu Zubaida suffer from "Hypergraphia"? Tortured for writing? 5/21/09.
Torture: A Moral and Psychic Train Wreck (Together with a modest proposal) 5/20/09
Who is Leo Strauss? And why should we care? (National Disgrace Exposed!) 5/18/09
Torture Services, Inc. (War Crime 4 Hire)
Huge NYTimes AD! Conservatives Running Scared on Torture? (Update II) 5/14/09
Human Experimentation is a War Crime! 5/13/09
Conspiracy to Sanction Torture (Update) 5/09/09
OPR Report: Most media got story wrong! (Update III) 5/06/09
A doctor considers torture. 4/30/09
The Terrible Intimacy of Torture. 4/26/09.
The post I didn't write. 4/23/09.
Another Torture Document Declassified (update #3). 4/21/09.
Deliberate Acts of Cruelty. 4/16/09.
Tantalizing clues in the torture hunt. 3/30/09.
GregorZap
It's NOT the CRIME, it's the COVER-UP ... as Always 5/16/09
Rowan Wolf gives US Perspective 5/15/09
Rowan Wolf gives US Perspective 5/15/09.
Torture Porn. 4/21/09.
Another View of the Insanity that was Torture. 4/16/09.
Amike Hearing is believing: The torture memos. 4/17/09
LisB Torture IS Torture. 4/20/09.
PseudoCyAnts
A Real Litmus Test Of Obama's Committment to Human Rights. 4/08/09.
Marc Thiessen: Defending Human Torture With A Lie. 3/31/09.
John Choon Yoo: Recent Orange County Register Interview. 3/06/09.
The Bush Legacy of Rape By Instrumentality. 2/20/09.
Jesse Lava
The actual law on torture. 4/24/09.
The pleasure of torture. 3/30/09.
DeanieMills. THE PERVERTERS OF LANGUAGE. 4/23/09.
DavidSeaton. Reality Wedge #3: having and eating cake. 4/29/09.
Jade7243
A "Capital" Idea: Lessons from the Movement
Who Did Get Punished For Torture?. 4/17/09
Special Comment on the Special Comment. 4/16/09.
Miguelitoh2o. How George W. Bush Lost the War On Terror. 1/17/09.
TPMtv: After Torture, Part II. Justin Elliott. 12/10/2008.
rowanwolf On Torture and the Way Forward. 5/02/09.
rowanwolf Torture is Not a Matter of Opinion. 4/26/09.
Dickday:
Cheney's Speech: By TheraP's Rules 5/22/09
Cheney, Rummy and Pulp Fiction 5/17/09
O. L(oo) C(ee): You Got Some Splainin' To Do! 5/15/09
FROM WHENCE DID THIS ORDER FOR WATERBOARDING ISSUE? 5/14/09
Enhanced Interrogative Torture: The Foundation of Western Culture 5/13/09
>a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/dikkday48yahoocom/2009/05/what-might-have-happened-the-t.php" target="_blank">What Might Have Happened: The Torture Briefing 5/10/09
Abu Ghraib: Prosecutorial Misconduct At Its Worst. dickday. 5/02/09.
Oleeb: Let's Look at the Court Decision Ordering Release of the Photos The President Now Seeks to Overturn 5/15/09
ACLU is Right on Photo Release: Bush/Obama Are Wrong 5/14/09
When Presidents Obstruct Justice They Disgrace Us All 4/19/09
"I Was Only Following Orders" 4/16/09
PsuedoCyAnts:
A Real Litmus Test Of Obama's Committment to Human Rights 4/8/09
Marc Thiessen: Defending Human Torture With A Lie 3/31/09
John Choon Yoo: Recent Orange County Register Interview 3/06/09
The Bush Legacy of Rape By Instrumentality 2/20/09
WaPo: Bushies Lobbying To Water Down Torture Report. Zachary Roth. TPM Muckraker. 5/05/09.
Obey
Tortured thinking: things that make me go, "WHAT!!!"
I have made an attempt to pull together various resources on torture. SO much has come up in discussions that I thought I would make an attempt to capture those in one place. I KNOW that this is not complete, and I apologize in advance for leaving anyone out or missing any thing significant. Please feel free to add resources and articles in the comments. I will try to move them into the post.
Links to Source Documents on Torture
Torture Document Dump Timeline. Empty Wheel - excellent source doc list for most recent releases.
Origins of Aggressive Interrogation Techniques. Senator Levin.
Taguba Resport5/04/2004.
CIA KUBARK Manual.
Memorandum for John Rizzion Acting General Counsel fo the CIA. Interrogation of al Qaeda Operative 8/01/02.
ICRC Report on the zTreatment of Fourteen "High value Detainees" in CIA Custody. International Red Cross. 2/2007.
Executive Summary of Torture Investigation
SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE INQUIRY INTO THE TREATMENT OF DETAINEES IN U.S. CUSTODY
The United Nations Issues its 14th Report on the Human Rights Situation in Iraq
Interrogations and Recordings: Relevant 9/11 Commission Requests and CIA Responses. 12/13/2007.
UN Convention Against Torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. HR Web.
Office of Professional Ethics Report Released 5/05/09
TPM Articles on Torture
Mr. President, War Crimes Must Be Investigated. Ruth Rosen. 4/17/2009.
TheraP:
Prison Reform, Mental Health, and Torture. 5/22/09
Does Abu Zubaida suffer from "Hypergraphia"? Tortured for writing? 5/21/09.
Torture: A Moral and Psychic Train Wreck (Together with a modest proposal) 5/20/09
Who is Leo Strauss? And why should we care? (National Disgrace Exposed!) 5/18/09
Torture Services, Inc. (War Crime 4 Hire)
Huge NYTimes AD! Conservatives Running Scared on Torture? (Update II) 5/14/09
Human Experimentation is a War Crime! 5/13/09
Conspiracy to Sanction Torture (Update) 5/09/09
OPR Report: Most media got story wrong! (Update III) 5/06/09
A doctor considers torture. 4/30/09
The Terrible Intimacy of Torture. 4/26/09.
The post I didn't write. 4/23/09.
Another Torture Document Declassified (update #3). 4/21/09.
Deliberate Acts of Cruelty. 4/16/09.
Tantalizing clues in the torture hunt. 3/30/09.
GregorZap
It's NOT the CRIME, it's the COVER-UP ... as Always 5/16/09
Rowan Wolf gives US Perspective 5/15/09
Rowan Wolf gives US Perspective 5/15/09.
Torture Porn. 4/21/09.
Another View of the Insanity that was Torture. 4/16/09.
Amike Hearing is believing: The torture memos. 4/17/09
LisB Torture IS Torture. 4/20/09.
PseudoCyAnts
A Real Litmus Test Of Obama's Committment to Human Rights. 4/08/09.
Marc Thiessen: Defending Human Torture With A Lie. 3/31/09.
John Choon Yoo: Recent Orange County Register Interview. 3/06/09.
The Bush Legacy of Rape By Instrumentality. 2/20/09.
Jesse Lava
The actual law on torture. 4/24/09.
The pleasure of torture. 3/30/09.
DeanieMills. THE PERVERTERS OF LANGUAGE. 4/23/09.
DavidSeaton. Reality Wedge #3: having and eating cake. 4/29/09.
Jade7243
A "Capital" Idea: Lessons from the Movement
Who Did Get Punished For Torture?. 4/17/09
Special Comment on the Special Comment. 4/16/09.
Miguelitoh2o. How George W. Bush Lost the War On Terror. 1/17/09.
TPMtv: After Torture, Part II. Justin Elliott. 12/10/2008.
rowanwolf On Torture and the Way Forward. 5/02/09.
rowanwolf Torture is Not a Matter of Opinion. 4/26/09.
Dickday:
Cheney's Speech: By TheraP's Rules 5/22/09
Cheney, Rummy and Pulp Fiction 5/17/09
O. L(oo) C(ee): You Got Some Splainin' To Do! 5/15/09
FROM WHENCE DID THIS ORDER FOR WATERBOARDING ISSUE? 5/14/09
Enhanced Interrogative Torture: The Foundation of Western Culture 5/13/09
>a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/dikkday48yahoocom/2009/05/what-might-have-happened-the-t.php" target="_blank">What Might Have Happened: The Torture Briefing 5/10/09
Abu Ghraib: Prosecutorial Misconduct At Its Worst. dickday. 5/02/09.
Oleeb: Let's Look at the Court Decision Ordering Release of the Photos The President Now Seeks to Overturn 5/15/09
ACLU is Right on Photo Release: Bush/Obama Are Wrong 5/14/09
When Presidents Obstruct Justice They Disgrace Us All 4/19/09
"I Was Only Following Orders" 4/16/09
PsuedoCyAnts:
A Real Litmus Test Of Obama's Committment to Human Rights 4/8/09
Marc Thiessen: Defending Human Torture With A Lie 3/31/09
John Choon Yoo: Recent Orange County Register Interview 3/06/09
The Bush Legacy of Rape By Instrumentality 2/20/09
WaPo: Bushies Lobbying To Water Down Torture Report. Zachary Roth. TPM Muckraker. 5/05/09.
Obey
Tortured thinking: things that make me go, "WHAT!!!"
Moral Clarity (a personal story)
Torture IS Torture 4/16/09 LisB
Links to Other Discussions on Torture
Fredman's Mea Culpa, the Army Field Manual, and the Istanbul Protocol. Jeff Kaye. Firedog Lake. 5/04/2009.
Justice after Bush: Prosecuting an outlaw administration. Scott Horten. Harpers. December 2008.
MarkDanner.com. A number of related articles.
The Gestation of Bradbury's Torture Memos. Empty Wheel. 5/01/09.
Waterboarding Used to Be a Crime. Evan Wallach. Wa. Post. 11/2007.
Torture Timeline. Empty Wheel. Good reseource.
Rumsfeld: Architect of torture. Mike Madden. Salon.com. 4/22/09.
Torture Memos vs. Red Cross Report: Prisoners' Recollections Differ from Guidelines. Olga Pierce. ProPublica. 4/22/09.
ProPublica Coverage of Torture
The OLC "torture memos": thoughts from a dissenter. Philip Zelikiow. FP. 4/21/09.
New UN Report Shows the US Combo of Torture and Impunity Thrives in Iraqi Prisons. Jeremy Scahill. 4/20/09.
Former Bush Officials Work to Soften Ethics Report on Interrogations Carrie Johnson. Wa. Post. 5/05/09.
Psychologists Told CIA Waterboarding Was Safe. Matthew Cole. ABC News. 5/01/09
Interrogating Torture. Philip Gourevitch. New Yorker. 5/11/09.
The Body in Pain. (The making and unmaking of the world). Elaine Scarry. (book)
Articles Tagged With 'Missing Memos' from ProPublica
The Missing Memos. Nguyen and Weaver, ProPublica, 4/16/09. Timeline of memos.
The Mental Murder of Torture Russell Saltzman. First Things. 4/28/09.
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What a resource! Thanks, Rowan! Much appreciated.
May 5, 2009 2:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
You're Welcome.
May 5, 2009 9:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Really nice job.
May 5, 2009 11:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
The United Nations Convention Against Torture, by which the U.S. is legally bound.
May 5, 2009 12:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
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May 5, 2009 6:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
New Washington Post article on attempts by former Bush officials trying to water down the soon to be released DOJ ethics report on torture.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/05/AR2009050502219.html?hpid=topnews
Here's a passage from the Post article that is baffling:
"The memos, drafted in 2002 and 2005, offered support for waterboarding, slamming prisoners against a wall and other techniques that critics have likened to torture."
Critics have LIKENED to torture?
May 5, 2009 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
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May 5, 2009 6:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Like TheraP says, This is an important resource.
This is great. I finished the memo list and have read more than half of this already.
THIS IS A LOT OF WORK.
Geeeeez I can just bookmark it. The next time I get this crap about 3 memos from OLC being the only evidence....I will just send them here.
THE END
May 5, 2009 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, it took some effort, but so much has come up in the posts and comments that it seemed a good idea to consolidate it somewhere.
May 5, 2009 6:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
It was an excellent idea, Rowan. Bookmarked and Recommended.
May 5, 2009 7:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
dd, make sure you read Interrogating Torture in the New Yorker.
It confirms everything you wrote the other day about the shameful prosecutions of the prison guards in the Abu Ghraib pictures, while the real criminals in the Bush administration have gone free.
May 5, 2009 8:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks Rowan - bookmarked!
May 5, 2009 8:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is a great resource, Rowan. Thanks so much!
May 5, 2009 8:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for keeping track Rowan. Much appreciated.
You may have this, but if not...
Here's http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/01-9
"Psychologists Told CIA Waterboarding Was Safe" by MATTHEW COLE, May 1.09
May 5, 2009 8:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is a "bit" of a tangential issue, Rowan, but I'm adding it to the list because the torture memos are so central to what occurred and the lawyers have been found by OPR to have committed "professional misconduct" - the worst finding they can conclude, within their guidelines:
http://www.usdoj.gov/opr/polandproc.htm
I just posted a bit on that at TPM Muckraker here:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/05/it_looks_like_the_bushies.php#comment-3458764
May 5, 2009 8:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is NOT yet the OPR report!!!
Just their policies and procedures. We await the actual report. And I'm guessing it won't be long if they've already leaked the specific findings. (I just don't want someone getting confused - and I'm sorry if I confused you here.)
May 5, 2009 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the link TheraP. Your great comment was followed by a drolltroll so Rowan and I had some fun in bad taste over there.
Awaiting the actual report too. Rachael had a good take on it tonight with General Sanchez.
May 5, 2009 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, I saw how quickly the trolls followed me. But the two of you were outstanding!!! We all make a great team here! :-)
May 5, 2009 10:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Added to the drolltroll thread.
May 5, 2009 11:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks and recommended, Rowan.
May 5, 2009 8:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ouch.
When you have somebody creating a compendium on a web site, maybe the web site needs to open up a compendium.
This issue is very large.
May 5, 2009 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Resources above this comment have been added to the main list.
May 5, 2009 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
A somewhat more abstract examination:
http://tinyurl.com/cddqhu
The url is Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain at books.google.com.
It's not an easy read; and frankly: what the Republicans are doing, today; along with 1) what they did under Bush and 2) the Democrats aiding and abetting them then and now
is using the silence that is pain, and the ensuing obscurity, to make more opaque their acts.
You can read page 9 through roughly page 13 to see Scarry's verbiage on this central point.
May 5, 2009 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have to reiterate my gratefulness for all this work.
As if it means anything, I hereby award you the Knightly Blog of the Day Award at this here TPMCafe Site, given to all of you from all of me.
This is important to TheraP, to me and to many others in our little group interested in this subject.
Always, always document. ha
Good, good job Rowan.
May 5, 2009 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
(Gee, blush)
All I did was sort through the great posts and comments (and a few other sources) to try to get in one place the resources that folks had dug up. It seemed a shame to have those scattered across the TPM landscape and therefore likely to become lost in the new growth.
I take a humble bow.
May 5, 2009 10:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
I suggest you include a couple of propublica html links (you have some pdf links to specific docs):
http://www.propublica.org/tag/missing+memos which lists articles
and
http://www.propublica.org/special/missing-memos
which lists many though not all memos in a nice chart.
Not just directly related to torture, but including many torture related memos.
May 6, 2009 12:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
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May 6, 2009 5:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mike7Woodson has an interesting blog post; he put it in the Cafe, dated today:
First Things: The Mental Murder of Torture
May 6, 2009 12:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can you provide the link?
May 6, 2009 5:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
He linked to this article:
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1397
May 6, 2009 8:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
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May 6, 2009 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's not an easy read; and frankly: what the Republicans are doing, today; along with 1) what they did under Bush and 2) the Democrats aiding and abetting them then and nowidentity protection
July 20, 2010 3:02 AM | Reply | Permalink