Jack Cloonan, former FBI security and counterterrorism expert From 1996 to 2002, Cloonan was the senior case agent assigned to the “Bin Laden Squad” in the New York Office of the FBI. Three of the country’s former top counterterrorism interrogators and intelligence experts, are speaking out publicly in support of a wide-ranging criminal investigation into the Bush administration’s use of torture against “war on terror” detainees, and have also urged Congress to launch a separate probe to
by Andy Worthington Featured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk 18 Aug. 2009In the first part of this three-part series examining the Guantánamo prisoners’ attempts to secure their release via the US courts, Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, looked at how, after the Supreme Court’s ruling, in June 2008, that the prisoners had constitutionally guaranteed habeas corpus rights, the Bush administration lost 23 of the 26 cases reviewed in the District Courts. The second pa
Scott Shane has a good article out on the psychologists hired by the Bush administration to design its torture program. Key quotes…… They had never carried out a real interrogation, only mock sessions in the military training they had overseen. They had no relevant scholarship; their Ph.D. dissertations were on high blood pressure and family therapy. They had no language skills and no expertise on Al Qaeda. But they had psychology credentials and an intimate knowledge of a br
