Thursday, Aug 28th
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The Pentagon has revised a directive on detainee interrogations to specifically prohibit the use of techniques developed for a pilot survival training program from Chinese torture methods, officials said Wednesday.
Critics charge that the so-called SERE techniques served as the basis for coercive interrogation practices that spread after the September 11 attacks to military detention centers in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq.
 The Trump administration has fired the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse,... |
 The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is experiencing “severe” staff shortages at all its... | ||
 Several Republican-led states are deploying more National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. to address what President... |
 The DC national guard will begin deploying on the city’s streets Tuesday night, the White House... |
