A video has been released of a former CIA operative being dragged out of Gina Haspel’s confirmation hearing and wrestled to the ground for protesting torture. Former CIA officer and whistle-blower Ray McGovern was forcibly removed from Gina Haspel’s Senate confirmation hearing and violently injured by police for protesting Trump’s pick to head the CIA. […]
Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina told Yahoo News that she endorses some of the country’s most controversial intelligence tactics, including the CIA’s torture program which involved waterboarding, in an interview published Monday. As CNN reports, “Waterboarding is an aggressive technique, slammed by critics as torture, that simulates drowning” that was used by the U.S. during […]
Thomas Buergenthal, who served as a judge at the International Court of Justice at the Hague for ten years until his retirement in 2010, is considered by many the world’s most distinguished living specialist in international human rights law. The son of German-Jewish and Polish Jewish parents, Buergenthal was born in the former Republic of […]
In March of 2013 paralyzed Iraq veteran Tomas Young reminded the world in a powerful letter about who was to blame for Iraq – Bush and Cheney – calling them war criminals and murders of both Iraqis and Americans. In a powerful clip from Democracy Now, he read from that letter that told his story […]