Topic: William Haynes

Top Bush aides pushed for Guantánamo torture

guardian.co.uk - 1193 days ago
America's most senior general was " aacute;namo Bay, leading to the US military abandoning its age-old ban on the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners, the Guardian reveals today.General Richard Myers, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff from ...

One Policy, Two Stories

TalkingPointsMemo.com - 1410 days ago
As I noted earlier, as outrageous as John Yoo's memo itself is, the process by which it came to be implemented is remarkable in its own right.As Jane Mayer reported in The New Yorker two years ago, Yoo's March ...

Leahy Asks Again for Torture Docs

TalkingPointsMemo.com - 1531 days ago
Yesterday, the White House finally agreed to turn over those warrantless surveillance documents that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has been seeking for so long. Now the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman is pressing for a response to another age-old request: documents relevant to ...