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• Amy Goodman: Torture tests neighborliness

  June 18, 2010 in City on Page A17 Federal authorities are investigating whether officials of the government south of the border participated in a citizen’s kidnapping and torture – Canadian authorities, that is, investigating the possible role of …

• Three accused of torturing man

  April 10, 2010 in City on Page B2 Two teenagers and a Spokane man are accused of kidnapping and torturing a suspected burglar. Police believe Chaz P. Crow, 20; Jesse T.R. Bushnell, 19; and Jesse R. James, 17, …

• Three accused of kidnapping, torture

  April 9, 2010 in City Two teenagers and a Spokane man are accused of kidnapping and torturing a suspected burglar. Police believe Chaz P. Crow, 20; Jesse T.R. Bushnell, 19; and Jesse R. James, 17, … 3

• Outisde Voices: Obama will find middle ground on torture nearly impossible

  April 27, 2009 in Opinion on Page A7 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 21: If it weren’t so disturbing, it would be funny. CIA interrogators had been handed Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi national believed to be a top strategist …

• Kathleen Parker: If torture on table, we’ve lost

  April 26, 2009 in Opinion on Page B8 Several years ago, I asked a veteran journalist for advice. “I’m trying to figure out if I have an ethical conflict,” I began. 2

• David S. Broder: Forgo vengeance over past policy

  April 26, 2009 in Opinion on Page B8 If ever there is a time for President Obama to trust his instincts and stick to his guns, that time is now, when he is being pressured to change his …

• Narrative shows Rice verbally approved CIA waterboarding

  April 23, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – As national security adviser to former President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice verbally approved the CIA’s request to subject alleged al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding in July …

• Red Cross says CIA tortured captives

  March 16, 2009 in City on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration’s treatment of al-Qaida captives “constituted torture,” a finding that strongly implied that …

• Prisoner alleges torture by U.S.

  February 24, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 LONDON – A former British resident released after seven years in detention, more than four of them at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, arrived back in London Monday and issued …

• Panetta: Water boarding is torture

  February 6, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Leon E. Panetta, President Barack Obama’s pick to lead the CIA, testified Thursday that he believed the harsh interrogation technique known as water-boarding to be torture and vowed …

• ‘20th hijacker’ tortured by military, official says

  January 14, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who …

• Senators: Spokane psychologist key in expansion of torture

    December 11, 2008 in News, City Dr. Bruce Jessen, a senior military psychologist with offices in Spokane, had a key role in expanding the controversial use of torture against enemy combatants, according to a report released … 1