Saturday, Oct 18th
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Human Rights Highlights of the newly declassified CIA documents
On Monday, the Obama administration released newly declassified 2004 CIA documents detailing the Bush administration's policy of capturing suspected terrorists and interrogating them in overseas prisons. Some highlights:
- CIA operatives used "unauthorized, improvised, inhumane and undocumented detention and interrogation techniques" that went even farther than the already permissive Justice Department legal opinions allowed.
 In early October, after 43 years behind bars for a murder he apparently did not commit,... |
 Israel must allow tents and caravans to immediately be delivered to the Gaza Strip, a United... | ||
 Before releasing him, Israeli prison guards decided to give Naseem al-Radee a farewell gift. They bound... |
 The most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader — Marwan Barghouti — is not among the... |
