Torture

On Sunday, May 4, Dr. Steven Miles was scheduled to speak at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, the progressive South Minneapolis congregation that has played host to hot-button speakers like Gloria Steinem, former Dominican priest Matthew Fox and antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan. But Miles, a professor in the University of Minnesota’s Center for Bioethics, [...]

U of M makes torture documents available

A year ago Dr. Steven Miles of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Bioethics published a book about medical doctors being complicit with torture proceedings in the U.S. military. Though the book was hardly a best-seller (#120,156 in Amazon.com’s book list), it did create some controversy. For example, “when [...]

The US is one step closer to OKing a new bill advocated by President Bush that limits the rights of detainees and, according to Democrats, may result in continued torture of terror suspects.  Today’s 253-168 vote in the House of Representatives will be followed by likely passage of a Senate version of the Military Commissions [...]

Mankato resident Tom Maertens, former National Security Council director for proliferation and homeland defense in the George W. Bush White House, and 16 other former members of the U.S. military, State Department, Defense Department, CIA and FBI have signed a letter to Senators Arlen Specter and Patrick Leahy of the Senate Judiciary Committee asking that [...]

Yesterday the President admitted that the CIA had secret prisons overseas. Yet in nearly the same breath he said, “The US does not torture. I have not authorized it and I will not”