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Media Coverage, Journal, and Magazine Articles
"Military Denies Having a Secret Afghan Torture Jail," by Spencer Ackerman, Wired.com, August 24, 2010.

"Bush Insider Reveals Guantanamo Deception: Hundreds of Innocents Jailed" by Bill Quigley, April 20, 2010.

"Zubaydah's Torture, Detention Subject of Senate Intelligence Inquiry" by Jason Leopold, Truthout, April 17, 2010.

"Former DOJ Official Ignored Damage That Resulted From Waterboarding" by Jeffrey Kaye, The Public Record, April 11, 2010. 

"Our Torture Regime Based on Same Kinds of Lies and Bad Intell as the Iraq War" Emptywheel, March 30, 2010. 

"US Recants Claims on "High-Value" Detainee Abu Zubaydah" by Jason Leopold, Truthout, March 30, 2010.

"COUNTERFACTUAL A curious history of the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program" by Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, March 29, 2010.

"The Torture Commission We Really Need," by David Kaye, Foreign Policy, March 25, 2010.

"The Torture Memo John Yoo Should Have Written," by Stephen Rohde, Truthout, March 2, 2010.

"Defender of Waterboarding Hears From Critics," by Mark Oppenheimer, The New York Times, February 26, 2010.

"Petraeus Takes on Chenyism," by Sam Stein, The Huffington Post, February 21, 2009.

"Obama's Continuing 'Terror War' Policies, Failure to Deal with Torturers Raise Growing Concerns," by Ernest Canning, BradBlog.com, February 3, 2010.

"Underwear bomber talking again," by Mike Allen & Kasie Hunt, Politco.com, February 2, 2010.

"Nostalgia for Bush/Cheney radicalism," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, January 31, 2010. 

"CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding," by Jeff Stein, Foreign Policy, February 3, 2010.


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Documentaries

"Torture on Trial" is a Link TV original production that investigates the history of interrogations in the "War on Terrorism", and the growing movement calling for accountability for those who authorized and participated in torture. Featured guests include Jane Mayer, staff writer with The New Yorker, Mark Danner, author of "Torture and Truth", George Hunsinger Founder of NRCAT and others.

The Torture Memos

On April 16, 2009, the Department of Justice released memos that had been prepared by Office of Legal Council attorneys Jay Bybee and Steven Bradbury as they assessed the CIA's "harsh interrogation techniques" between 2002 and 2005. Click on Read More to access the links to the four torture memos.

Liliana Segura posted on AlterNet an article “New Bush Torture Bombshell Memos: 10 Horrifying Discoveries” on April 17, 2009. She includes a summary of ten of the worst interrogation methods described in the torture memos. Click Read More to see her list.


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2 Book Reviews

Liberty: Rethinking an Imperiled Ideal, Glenn Tinder, Eerdmans, 421 pp., $27.00.

Reviewed by: Timothy Renick, chair of the department of religious studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta and director of a two-year project by the American Academy of Religion and the Teagle Foundation to study the undergraduate major in religion.

Torture and Democracy, Darius Rejali (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).  849pp. $39.50.

Reviewed by: George Hunsinger (To be published in Theology Today, October, 2008).
 
This book is quite simply the most authoritative study of torture ever written.  Twenty-five years of painstaking research in the making, it will serve the human rights movement for decades to come.  The author, whose mother was an American Presbyterian and whose father was an Iranian Muslim, grew up in Tehran under the reign of terror instituted by the U.S.-installed Shah of Iran.  He saw at first hand the effects of torture on a society in which it was meted out.  He has devoted his scholarly career to doing whatever can be done to prevent it.

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Reports

"PEW RESEARCH CENTER’S FORUM ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE: Survey on People of Faith and Torture" April 30, 2009.

"World Publics Reject Torture" World Public Opinion, 06/24/09. 

"SURVEY OF PENNSYLVANIANS ON THE USE OF TORTURE" by Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion, March 11, 2008.

"Arrest Story" by NRCAT member Jean Athey, January, 2008.

"Law and executive disorder: President gives green light to secret detention program" by Amnesty International, 8/17/07.

"No Blood, No Foul: Soldiers' Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq" by Human Rights Watch, July 2006.

"The Use of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane, or Degrading Treatment as Interrogation Devices" by Mark Costanzo, Ellen Gerrity, and M. Brinton Lykes, a policy statement endorsed by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Council, 6/21/06. 

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Resolutions Passed

North Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Minute on the Abolition of Torture

The General Convention of the Episcopal Church, Resolution C020, Condemnation of Torture, 2009.

Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

The 2009 Action of Immediate Witness of the Unitarian Universalist Association calls for a Commission of Inquiry into U.S.-sponsored torture and endorses the NRCAT statement.

Eastern Washington-Idaho Synod, "A Resolution Concerning Torture"

The Unitarian Universalist District of Metropolitan New York, at its annual meeting on May 3, 2008, in Stamford, Connecticut passed an anti-torture resolution of social witness.