President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday he rejected the use of torture in interrogations, calling the practice illegal and ineffective. Asked in a Senate confirmation hearing about his views on practices like waterboarding — inflicted by CIA and FBI interrogators on detainees in the years after the September … Read more
Democrats on Friday accused a powerful Republican senator of seeking to erase the history of the CIA’s torture program in the 2000s by demanding copies of a highly classified report be handed over to him. They said Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, had secretly told government agencies this week to return … Read more
There was no immediate response from the U. S. delegation to the 47-member state forum in Geneva. A U. N. human rights expert voiced alarm on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump might allow torture in interrogations and called for senior officials from George W. Bush’s administration to be prosecuted for allowing the illegal practice. … Read more
The lawyer of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said on Monday he believes US President Donald Trump is serious about using Guantanamo Bay to house more “terrorist” suspects. Defence lawyer David Nevin added that any chance of closing the notorious site had been lost with the end of Barack Obama’s presidency. “Our president said … Read more
U. N. human rights experts said on Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban on nationals from seven Muslim-majority states contravenes international law and could lead to people denied asylum being sent home to face torture. Trump’s executive order curbing immigration has aroused an international outcry, even among U.S. allies, and sown chaos and bewilderment … Read more
The director of the CIA has warned US President-elect Donald Trump that ending the Iran nuclear deal would be “disastrous” and “the height of folly”. In a BBC interview, John Brennan also advised the new president to be wary of Russia’s promises, blaming Moscow for much of the suffering in Syria. In his campaign, Mr … Read more
The US may have committed war crimes of torture, cruel treatment and rape, when it interrogate dozens of people in Afghanistan between 2003 and 2014, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said. The International Criminal Court’s preliminary probe of the US armed forces and CIA activities in Afghanistan between 2003 and 2004 shows there to … Read more
Donald Trump’s “deeply unsettling and disturbing” views make him a danger internationally, the UN’s human rights chief has said. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein cited Mr Trump’s comments on the use of torture and his attitude to “vulnerable communities”. The Republican presidential candidate’s campaign has been marked by a number of … Read more
Al Jazeera speaks to the former secret prisoners, including two Libyans who opposed Gaddafi “In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but…we tortured some folks.” President Obama, August 2014 In Search for the Dark Prison, a moving two-part Fault … Read more