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Michael Roston, rawstory.com The State Department has no plans to stop accepting promises that countries with poor human rights record will not torture freed Guantanamo Bay detainees, RAW STORY has learned. The announcement came the same day the group Human Rights Watch published a report showing that seven ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees of Russian descent have…

The legacy of Fallujah The western rhetoric of apathy must not blind us to our obligation to challenge atrocities Jonathan Holmes Wednesday April 4, 2007 The Guardian In the face of repeated independent verification, US forces have now acknowledged the use of chemical weapons, and yet there remains no sustained international outcry and no official…

By Randall Mikkelsen, Reuters The United States used waterboarding in terrorism interrogations but no longer does, a former U.S. spy chief said in the Bush administration’s clearest confirmation of the technique’s use. U.S. officials have been reluctant to acknowledge the CIA’s use of the simulated drowning technique, which human rights groups call an illegal form…

White House Backed U.S. Attorney Firings, Officials Say By John Solomon and Dan Eggen WaPo Staff Writers Sat, March 3, ’07 The White House approved the firings of seven U.S. attorneys… Justice Department officials have consistently portrayed them as personnel decisions based on the prosecutors’ “performance-related” problems. But, yesterday, officials acknowledged that the ousters were…