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Afghan prisoners are being abused in a "secret jail" at Bagram airbase, according to nine witnesses whose stories the BBC has documented. The abuses are all said to have taken place since US President Barack Obama was elected, promising to end torture.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8621973.stm


From Information Clearing House

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Inviting Torture to Appease the Right Wing

Shahid Buttar, Truthout: "On Friday, the administration conceded yet another political defeat by withdrawing the nomination of Dawn Johnsen, Obama's first nominee to head the Office of Legal Counsel - the government agency made infamous by the likes of John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and other lawyers who authorized torture under the Bush administration."

https://www.truthout.org/an-administration-on-its-heels-inviting-torture-to-appease-the-right-wing58636

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Johnsen, Constitution Both Denied Role in Obama Administration
https://act.commondreams.org/go/469?akid=48.124981.xYPIZQ&t=30



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