While Texas Dismisses Torture Charges Against James Mitchell, Other Investigations Under Political Pressures

By: Jeff Kaye Monday February 28, 2011 7:15 pm

The Texas State Board of Examiners claims they haven’t enough evidence to challenge the legitimacy of CIA torture contractor James Mitchell’s professional license to practice psychology. This is but the latest in a number of legal defeats in the now years-long attempt to bring torturers to justice. The campaign to bring these criminals to justice spans the continent, from Berkeley to Texas, from Ohio to New York, while abroad, efforts to investigate or prosecute U.S. torturers have met varying fates in Poland, Lithuania, Spain, and the United Kingdom. What more can be done to expose the war criminals, and bring them before the law?

ICRC Confirms Existence of Second Secret Prison at Bagram, BBC Reports Torture

By: Jeff Kaye Tuesday May 11, 2010 4:29 pm

BBC reports that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed the existence of a second prison site at Bagram. The presence of a second site has long been suspected, a prison the Afghans call Tor Prison, or the “Black” Prison.

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