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Bring Abdelrazik home
April 6, 2009 – 2:46 pm | No Comment
Bring Abdelrazik home

By Kris Kotarski, For The Calgary Herald
The government of Canada is afraid that when he returns home, Abousfian Abdelrazik will talk.
That is the only possible reason why a Canadian citizen who has been publicly cleared …

CSIS defies orders on torture – Spy agency says it uses intelligence extracted that way ‘if lives are at stake,’ despite federal ban
April 1, 2009 – 4:30 am | No Comment
CSIS defies orders on torture – Spy agency says it uses intelligence extracted that way ‘if lives are at stake,’ despite federal ban

Tonda MacCharles
OTTAWA BUREAU
OTTAWA – In stunning testimony that flatly contradicts stated Conservative government policy, a senior CSIS official admitted the spy agency still uses information that might have been obtained by torture in national security …

Leaked Red Cross report details terror suspect torture by U.S. under Bush
March 16, 2009 – 6:13 pm | No Comment
Leaked Red Cross report details terror suspect torture by U.S. under Bush

WASHINGTON – The tales are horrifyingly medieval in nature – terror suspects beaten, bound and bleeding, forced into coffin-like boxes, shackled naked to their beds in darkened cells, deprived of food for weeks, forced underwater …

Americans Favor Probe of ‘War on Terror’ Excesses
February 13, 2009 – 7:22 pm | No Comment
Americans Favor Probe of ‘War on Terror’ Excesses

WASHINGTON – Two-thirds of Americans favor investigating whether the George W. Bush administration overstepped legal boundaries in its “war on terror,” according to a poll released Thursday by USA Today and Gallup.
A majority of respondents …