White House pressured over allegations of torture, secret prisons

[Judi Lynn]

Time is GMT + 8 hours
Posted: 04 November 2005 1548 hrs

White House pressured over allegations of torture, secret prisons

WASHINGTON : Mounting criticism of US maltreatment of hundreds of "war on terror" detainees, and new evidence that the CIA runs secret prisons around the world, have put the White House on the defensive over an alleged policy of permitting torture.

On Thursday the two houses of Congress began discussions to finalize a bill that would ban any torture by US forces. President George W. Bush has threatened to veto it, even as he has denied sanctioning torture.

The same day, a former top state department official told a radio program that the office of Vice President Dick Cheney was behind directives which encouraged US forces's torture of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.

That followed a Washington Post report a day earlier that the CIA has operated a network of secret prisons in eight countries where about 30 people were being held and interrogated.
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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/176945/1/.html

[DearAbby]

1. White House pressured over allegations of torture, secret prisons

GOOD! I for one want to know what these bastards are doing in my name!

[Daphne08]

2. In my name, too, and that of my father, a WWII veteran who

fought against fascism!

[mrdmk]

3. This subject really makes me sick, the two face macho dick slinging

we do not torture, yet we cannot follow the Geneva Convention, pass a bill or give these people legal representation. This is total nonsense to what this country has been saying over the past 75 years.

This is what we get when we have an unelected government in the White House.

edit: pushed the wrong button.

[Stockholm]

4. Sad day when you see these words together in a headline...

What the fuck happened?