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<item><title><![CDATA[ Abu Ghraib: The Back Story ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071001952.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071001952.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Reviewed by Douglas Brinkley]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib:]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back]]></category><category><![CDATA[Story]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philip Gourevitch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Errol Morris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ken Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Penguin Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[60 Minutes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Academy Awards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alberto Gonzales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amnesty International]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Graner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Brinkley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ivan Fredrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[L. Paul Bremer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lee Harvey Oswald]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lynndie England]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norman Mailer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Wolfowitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rice University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rory Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seymour Hersh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tigris River]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Utah Department of Corrections]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CIA Played Larger Role In Advising Pentagon ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702862.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702862.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A senior CIA lawyer advised Pentagon officials about the use of harsh interrogation techniques on detainees at Guantanamo Bay in a meeting in late 2002, defending waterboarding and other methods as permissible despite U.S. and international laws banning torture, according to documents released yesterday by congressional investigators. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joby Warrick]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Played]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Role]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Advising]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Fredman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Fallon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Levin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Little]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Fratto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Report Questions Pentagon Accounts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602779.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602779.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials began assembling lists of harsh interrogation techniques in the summer of 2002 for use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay and that those officials later cited memos from field commanders to suggest that the proposals originated far down the chain of command, according to congressional sources briefed on the findings. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joby Warrick]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Report]]></category><category><![CDATA[Questions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Accounts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Levin]]></category><category><![CDATA[J.D. Gordon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caroline Fredrickson]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Addington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Audit Finds FBI Reports Of Detainee Abuse Ignored ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001123.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001123.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Complaints by FBI agents about abusive interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other U.S. military sites reached the National Security Council but prompted no effort to curb questioning that the agents considered ineffective and possibly illegal, according to an internal audit released yesterday.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112131697" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112131697" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carrie Johnson and Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Audit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finds]]></category><category><![CDATA[FBI]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reports]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detainee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ignored]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Zubaida]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Ashcroft]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glenn Fine]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Conyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Mueller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Mansfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House National Security Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bryan Whitman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Levin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mohamed al-Qahtani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Muhammed Hussein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sean McCormack]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zayn al-Abidin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Eggen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joby Warrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Torture's Blowback ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051503705.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051503705.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ THE GHOSTS of interrogations past have come back to haunt the Bush administration. This week, the legal officer supervising the military trials at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dismissed capital charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, who allegedly would have been the 20th hijacker during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks had he not been prevented from entering the country. The decision has been widely reported as a serious setback for the administration's quest to bring terrorists to justice. It is much more and much worse than that: It is a palpable reminder of the inhumane acts committed by U.S. personnel and sanctioned by top officials in the name of protecting Americans from extremists. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Torture's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blowback]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Khalid Shaikh Mohammed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mohamed al-Qahtani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan J. Crawford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Administration Asserted a Terror Exception on Search and Seizure ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040304136.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040304136.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Justice Department concluded in October 2001 that military operations combating terrorism inside the United States are not limited by Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, in one of several secret memos containing new and controversial assertions of presidential power. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Eggen and Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asserted]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terror]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exception]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Search]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seizure]]></category><category><![CDATA[John C. Yoo]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Roehrkasse]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jameel Jaffer]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[DOJ Office of Legal Counsel]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carrie Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Gittins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Graner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Markon]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Ashcroft]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Thompson (Executive)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard B. Myers]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Security Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Memo: Laws Didn't Apply to Interrogators ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102213.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102213.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president's ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such statutes. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Eggen and Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Memo:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laws]]></category><category><![CDATA[Didn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Apply]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interrogators]]></category><category><![CDATA[John C. Yoo]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alberto J. Mora]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[DOJ Office of Legal Counsel]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin S. Lederman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas J. Romig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Levin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Goldsmith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-Berkeley]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ NATION IN BRIEF ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802922.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802922.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112133877" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112133877" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[NATION]]></category><category><![CDATA[IN]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEF]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kwame M. Kilpatrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Omar Khadr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Albany]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Paterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lansing (Michigan)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lynndie R. England]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detroit City Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Before Students, Intelligence Chief Defends Efforts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/18/AR2008011803878.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/18/AR2008011803878.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The nation's intelligence chief told St. Mary's College of Maryland students Wednesday afternoon that the United States has obtained information from interrogations of terrorism suspects that has saved lives -- but did not engage in torture to get it. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jenna Johnson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Before]]></category><category><![CDATA[Students,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chief]]></category><category><![CDATA[Defends]]></category><category><![CDATA[Efforts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike McConnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patuxent Partnership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Station Chief Made Appeal To Destroy CIA Tapes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011504090.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011504090.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In late 2005, the retiring CIA station chief in Bangkok sent a classified cable to his superiors in Langley asking if he could destroy videotapes recorded at a secret CIA prison in Thailand that in part portrayed intelligence officers using simulated drowning to extract information from suspected al-Qaeda members. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Station]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chief]]></category><category><![CDATA[Made]]></category><category><![CDATA[Appeal]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Destroy]]></category><category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tapes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jose Rodriguez (CIA Official)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Zubaida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bangkok]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Hayden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert S. Bennett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott W. Muller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Porter Goss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dominican Republic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Tenet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harriet Miers]]></category><category><![CDATA[J. Cofer Black]]></category><category><![CDATA[John A. Rizzo]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Bellinger]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Negroponte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House National Security Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zayn al-Abidin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ McCain Advocates New Tactics ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/15/AR2007121501668.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/15/AR2007121501668.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ COLUMBIA, S.C., Dec. 15 -- Republican White House hopeful John McCain said he wants "a crash program" in civilian and military schools that emphasizes language and creates a "new specialty in strategic interrogation" so the nation never feels the need for torture. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davenport]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Advocates]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tactics]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ House Passes Bill to Ban CIA's Use of Harsh Interrogation Tactics ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301288.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301288.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The House approved legislation yesterday that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics, drawing an immediate veto threat from the White House and setting up another political showdown over what constitutes torture.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112136135" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112136135" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Passes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ban]]></category><category><![CDATA[CIA's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Use]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harsh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interrogation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tactics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Daskal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pete Hoekstra]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Josh White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Hayden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul J. Kern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silvestre Reyes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human Rights Watch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Office of Management and Budget]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CIA Chief: Hill Should Have Been Told More ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121202362.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121202362.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Congress was not fully informed about the videotaping of harsh interrogation methods used on two al-Qaeda terrorism suspects in 2002 or the destruction of those tapes three years later, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Pincus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chief:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Should]]></category><category><![CDATA[Have]]></category><category><![CDATA[Been]]></category><category><![CDATA[Told]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Hayden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pete Hoekstra]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silvestre Reyes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Zubaida]]></category><category><![CDATA[al-Abidin Muhammed Hussein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonio Taguba]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Eggen]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Tenet]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Negroponte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jose A. Rodriguez Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Josh White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul J. Kern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Porter Goss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CIA Destroyed Videos Showing Interrogations ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/06/AR2007120601828.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/06/AR2007120601828.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The CIA made videotapes in 2002 of its officers administering harsh interrogation techniques to two al-Qaeda suspects but destroyed the tapes three years later, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Eggen and Joby Warrick]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Destroyed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Showing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interrogations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Hayden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Zubaydah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zacarias Moussaoui]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Mukasey]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jameel Jaffer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jay Rockefeller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Mansfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[A. John Radsan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jose A. Rodriguez Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kit Bond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leonie M. Brinkema]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Porter Goss]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Fratto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Pincus]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Trade Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Now Online, a Guide to Detainee Treatment ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/03/AR2007120301976.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/03/AR2007120301976.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments this week on the rights of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the public is getting another peek at how detainees have been treated there. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Now]]></category><category><![CDATA[Online,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guide]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detainee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Treatment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geoffrey D. Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Haupt]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Politics Creates Odd Pair: Sanchez and Democrats ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/26/AR2007112602039.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/26/AR2007112602039.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It may be among the strangest of political alliances: a former commanding general in Iraq, blocked from a fourth star and forced into retirement partly for his role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, and the speaker of the House, desperate to end a war that the general helped start.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112138591" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112138591" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Weisman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Creates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Odd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pair:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sanchez]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brendan Daly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Bacevich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ciro Rodriguez]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mcallen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Yingling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Brock]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ricardo S. Sanchez]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Antonio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sylvestre Reyes]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ I'm Back Home, But Still in Iraq's Grasp ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/09/AR2007110901569.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/09/AR2007110901569.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The only feeling I've ever had that was more surreal than arriving in a war zone was returning from one. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Quinn]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[I'm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home,]]></category><category><![CDATA[But]]></category><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grasp]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Corps]]></category><category><![CDATA[CH-47 Chinook Helicopter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ford Taurus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darfur]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Herald Tribune SAS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Camp Cropper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Huachuca]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Hobbes]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Quinn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Army Intelligence Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ba'ath Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Myanmar]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army ROTC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Judge Allows Abu Ghraib Lawsuit Against Contractor ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110602025.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110602025.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal judge in Washington ruled yesterday that a civil lawsuit alleging abuse and torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq can go forward against a U.S. military contractor, setting the stage for what could be the first case in a U.S. civilian court to weigh accountability for the notorious abuses in 2003. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Judge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allows]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Against]]></category><category><![CDATA[Contractor]]></category><category><![CDATA[CACI International Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan L. Burke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blackwater USA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Constitutional Rights]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[L-3 Communications Holdings Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Titan Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Remes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Robertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jody Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Ratner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Self-Inflicted Wounds ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/05/AR2007110501594.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/05/AR2007110501594.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The question of whether waterboarding constitutes torture is a no-brainer. Our nation and many others have recognized for decades that it does. One doesn't have to have been "read into" the details of a classified program, as President Bush has suggested, to reach a judgment about this interrogation technique. Common sense is the only tool needed to understand that inducing the sensation of drowning -- i.e., of dying -- is torture. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alberto Mora and John Shattuck]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Self-Inflicted]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wounds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Mukasey]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alberto Mora]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Shattuck]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Czech Republic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Congress Seeks Secret Memos On Interrogation ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/04/AR2007100400979.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/04/AR2007100400979.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Democratic lawmakers assailed the Justice Department yesterday for issuing secret memos that authorized harsh CIA interrogation techniques, demanding that the Bush administration turn over the documents. But officials refused and said the tactics did not violate anti-torture laws.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112139356" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112139356" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Eggen and Michael Abramowitz]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seeks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Secret]]></category><category><![CDATA[Memos]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interrogation]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alberto Gonzales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven G. Bradbury]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fran Townsend]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Mukasey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[DOJ Office of Legal Counsel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Roehrkasse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Dodd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dafna Linzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Perino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elisa Massimino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerrold Nadler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joby Warrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Conyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Gimigliano]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter D. Keisler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philip Zelikow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human Rights First]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Pentagon Justice ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/01/AR2007090101077.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/01/AR2007090101077.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ THE MISBEGOTTEN effort to hold military officers accountable for the notorious abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison limped to a close last week when an Army lieutenant colonel was cleared by a court-martial jury of charges that he was responsible for the mistreatment of detainees. Steven L. Jordan, the only officer to be prosecuted for crimes that were documented in stomach-turning photographs and videotapes, probably never should have been charged. His week-long trial demonstrated that he had little or nothing to do with the harsh interrogation tactics and other abuse introduced at Abu Ghraib in late 2003. His prosecution was symptomatic of the Pentagon's perverse handling of Abu Ghraib: The most senior officer to be administratively sanctioned, an Army Reserve brigadier general, also had no role in carrying out the abuses. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Reprimand Is Sentence For Officer at Abu Ghraib ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082900391.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082900391.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, the only officer to face trial over the Abu Ghraib detainee-abuse scandal, was issued a reprimand yesterday by a military jury, a punishment that spares him all prison time after he was convicted this week on one count of disobeying an order. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Reprimand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sentence]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officer]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Abu Ghraib Officer Cleared of Detainee Abuse ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082800359.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082800359.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The only Army officer to face a court-martial for the notorious detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was exonerated of mistreating detainees by a military jury yesterday, ending a series of prosecutions that stretched over more than three years. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cleared]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detainee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bush Loyalist Helped Shape Signature Anti-Terror Policies ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/27/AR2007082701353.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/27/AR2007082701353.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The resignation of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales ends one of President Bush's closest and longest professional relationships, one in which an unflappable son of migrant workers served the president loyally through a period of escalating controversy over the legality of U.S. policies in the fight against terrorism.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112143864" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112143864" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael A. Fletcher and R. Jeffrey Smith]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loyalist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Helped]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shape]]></category><category><![CDATA[Signature]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anti-Terror]]></category><category><![CDATA[Policies]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Humiliation at Abu Ghraib, and Then at the Prosecution Table ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082202387.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082202387.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "Don't speak," the judge advised a prosecution lawyer at one point yesterday during the court-martial of the lone officer charged in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Humiliation]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib,]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Then]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prosecution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Table]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Officer's Role at Abu Ghraib Played Down ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082200692.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082200692.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, the only officer charged in connection with abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison, did not train, supervise or work directly with interrogators who questioned detainees, the prison's top military intelligence officer testified yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Officer's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Role]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Played]]></category><category><![CDATA[Down]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Army Drops More Charges in Officer's Abu Ghraib Case ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/20/AR2007082000491.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/20/AR2007082000491.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Military prosecutors dropped two charges against Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan yesterday, hours before his court-martial for allegedly abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was set to begin at Fort Meade. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Army]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drops]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charges]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officer's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Conflicting Portraits of Officer Charged Over Abu Ghraib ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/30/AR2007073001564.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/30/AR2007073001564.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan does not appear in any of the notorious images of detainee abuse that emerged from Abu Ghraib prison three years ago. Going into his tour in Iraq in 2003, he had no interrogation experience. And more than half a dozen military interrogators have said in recent interviews that Jordan had nothing to do with the hundreds of interrogations they conducted at the prison.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112144746" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112144746" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Conflicting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Portraits]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charged]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Pistachios at Guantanamo ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/22/AR2007072200882.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/22/AR2007072200882.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Via a monitoring camera, I saw a snippet of an interrogation session here one day last week inside one of the high-security complexes where foreign detainees are held. No faces were visible, but I glimpsed the jingling bracelets, open-toed sandals and skirts of two young women, who were seated in soft leather chairs around a table with a man in prison garb. One woman was the interrogator; the other was a translator. The means of persuasion, apart from the evident feminine charm, was a generous bag of pistachios -- a usually unavailable treat. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jackson Diehl]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Pistachios]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bush Approves New CIA Methods ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/20/AR2007072001264.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/20/AR2007072001264.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush set broad legal boundaries for the CIA's harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects yesterday, allowing the intelligence agency to resume a program that was suspended last year after criticism that it violated U.S. and international law. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen DeYoung]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Approves]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Methods]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Unseen Path to Cruelty ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/24/AR2007062401461.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/24/AR2007062401461.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Shortly after the first accused terrorists reached the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Jan. 11, 2002, a delegation from the CIA  arrived in the Situation Room. The agency presented a delicate problem to White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales, a man with next to no experience on the subject. Vice President Cheney's lawyer, who had a great deal of experience, sat nearby. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barton Gellman and Jo Becker]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unseen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Path]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cruelty]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Tortured Lives of Interrogators ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/03/AR2007060301121.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/03/AR2007060301121.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CHICAGO -- The American interrogator was afraid. Of what and why, he couldn't say. He was riding the L train in Chicago, and his throat was closing.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112146904" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112146904" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Blumenfeld]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tortured]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lives]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interrogators]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Question of Torture ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/16/AR2007051602412.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/16/AR2007051602412.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ THE REPUBLICAN presidential candidates were asked at their debate in South Carolina on Tuesday about "a million-to-one scenario" involving the interrogation of suspected foreign terrorists. Only one in 10 got it right. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Question]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ House Armed Services Committee Hearing ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/02/AR2007040200583.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/02/AR2007040200583.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:36:54 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MARCH 29, 2007 ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Armed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hearing]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Walter Reed Hearing to Put Spotlight on Kiley's Leadership ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/04/AR2007030401251.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/04/AR2007030401251.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When the first congressional hearing about the care of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center opens this morning in a campus auditorium, many eyes will turn to Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, who has served as the Army's top doctor since he gave up command of the hospital in 2004. The hearing will allow Kiley to explain why bureaucratic tangles and horrid conditions made life so difficult for outpatients at the Army's premier hospital, while also likely putting him in a position of defending his job. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Walter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hearing]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Put]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spotlight]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kiley's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Al-Qaeda's Hand In Istanbul Plot ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201715.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201715.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ISTANBUL -- About a week before Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden sat down to a breakfast meeting in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. His Turkish guests had arrived with a plan for a spectacular terrorist strike, but according to accounts two of the visitors later gave investigators, there was no talk of business over the meal.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112149125" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112149125" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karl Vick]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hand]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Istanbul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plot]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Abu Ghraib Officer Faces Court-Martial ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007012601486.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007012601486.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ HAGERSTOWN, Md., Jan. 26 -- The only U.S. military officer charged with a crime in the Abu Ghraib scandal will be court-martialed on eight charges, including cruelty and maltreatment of prisoners, the Army said Friday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Faces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court-Martial]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Interrogation Research Is Lacking, Report Says ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/15/AR2007011501204.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/15/AR2007011501204.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There is almost no scientific evidence to back up the U.S. intelligence community's use of controversial interrogation techniques in the fight against terrorism, and experts believe some painful and coercive approaches could hinder the ability to get good information, according to a new report from an intelligence advisory group. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Interrogation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Research]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lacking,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Report]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Contractors Are Cited in Abuses at Guantanamo ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/03/AR2007010301759.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/03/AR2007010301759.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ New allegations of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay released by the FBI on Tuesday put private contractors at the center of interrogation operations, raising questions once again about where they fit in the military's chain of command. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Griff Witte  and Renae Merle]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Contractors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cited]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abuses]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Ex-Detainees Seek to Sue U.S. Officials ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/07/AR2006120701979.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/07/AR2006120701979.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In a federal courtroom today,  nine former prisoners at U.S. military prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan will seek through an unusual lawsuit to hold outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and top military commanders personally responsible for the torture they say they endured.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112151320" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112151320" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol D. Leonnig]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ex-Detainees]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seek]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sue]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officials]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Netherlands Notes Abuse of Jailed Iraqis ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/17/AR2006111702183.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/17/AR2006111702183.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ THE HAGUE, Nov. 17 -- Dutch military interrogators abused 15 Iraqi prisoners in 2003, dousing them with water to keep them awake and exposing them to loud sounds and strong lights, the government said Friday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Corder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Notes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jailed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraqis]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Donald Rumsfeld I Know ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/10/AR2006111001388.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/10/AR2006111001388.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Much of what you know about Donald Rumsfeld is wrong. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Douglas J. Feith]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[I]]></category><category><![CDATA[Know]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Unlearned Lessons of Abu Ghraib ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/18/AR2006101801501.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/18/AR2006101801501.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush has signed into law Congress's latest attempt to clarify our country's position on proper treatment of detainees and the boundaries of legitimate interrogation techniques. Unfortunately, this legislation demonstrates that both the administration and Congress have failed to learn important lessons from what  Bush described as the "biggest mistake that's happened so far" in Iraq: the detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Graveline]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unlearned]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lessons]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ House Votes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901819.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901819.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112157377" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112157377" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Votes]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Interrogators Left Out in the Cold ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101509.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101509.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The White House and Senate GOP rebels finally cut a deal yesterday on rules for interrogation of terrorism suspects. That's good news for the CIA officers who need clear guidance about what's legal and what isn't. But the truth is, this collision could have been avoided if the administration had sought broader political and legal support for its secret program from the start, rather than leaving the CIA out in the cold to take the hits. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Ignatius]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Interrogators]]></category><category><![CDATA[Left]]></category><category><![CDATA[Out]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cold]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ New Army Manual Recalls Abuse ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/08/AR2006090801575.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/08/AR2006090801575.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The chief architect of the new Army field manual on interrogations said yesterday that the document aims to preserve the memory of the detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere so future generations of U.S. soldiers do not repeat the same mistakes. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Army]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manual]]></category><category><![CDATA[Recalls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ New Rules of Interrogation Forbid Use of Harsh Tactics ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/06/AR2006090601947.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/06/AR2006090601947.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Pentagon officials yesterday repudiated the harsh interrogation tactics adopted since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, specifically forbidding U.S. troops from using forced nudity, hooding, military dogs and waterboarding to elicit information from detainees captured in ongoing wars. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interrogation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forbid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Use]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harsh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tactics]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Defense Department News Briefing on Detainee Policies ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/06/AR2006090601442.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/06/AR2006090601442.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:58:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ SEPTEMBER 6, 2006<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112158640" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112158640" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[Department]]></category><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><category><![CDATA[Briefing]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detainee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Policies]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ GOP Senators Differ With President on Military Trials ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090501200.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090501200.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Key Republican senators have drafted a legislative plan for special military trials of suspected terrorists that diverges from a recent Bush administration plan by granting defendants rights that the White House has sought to proscribe, government officials said yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[R. Jeffrey Smith]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senators]]></category><category><![CDATA[Differ]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[President]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Military]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trials]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Homicide Charges Rare in Iraq War ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/27/AR2006082700770.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/27/AR2006082700770.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The majority of U.S. service members charged in the unlawful deaths of Iraqi civilians have been acquitted, found guilty of relatively minor offenses or given administrative punishments without trials, according to a Washington Post review of concluded military cases. Charges against some of the troops were dropped completely. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White, Charles Lane  and Julie Tate]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Homicide]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charges]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rare]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Ex-Contractor Guilty of Assaulting Detainee ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081700163.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081700163.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal jury in North Carolina yesterday convicted former CIA contractor David A. Passaro of assaulting a detainee he interrogated at a remote U.S. military base in Afghanistan in 2003. It was the first time an American civilian has been held criminally responsible for abusing a prisoner captured during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White and Dafna Linzer]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ex-Contractor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guilty]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Assaulting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detainee]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ War Crimes Act Changes Would Reduce Threat Of Prosecution ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/08/AR2006080801276.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/08/AR2006080801276.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of the amendments.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112159461" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112159461" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[R. Jeffrey Smith]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crimes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Act]]></category><category><![CDATA[Changes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Would]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reduce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Threat]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prosecution]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ General Who Ran Guantanamo Bay Retires ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/31/AR2006073101183.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/31/AR2006073101183.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, a central figure in the debate over the treatment of detainees in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, retired from the Army yesterday amid ongoing congressional concern about his role in policies that allegedly led to abuse by U.S. service members. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[General]]></category><category><![CDATA[Who]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Retires]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Do No Harm ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072001021.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072001021.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ OATH BETRAYED ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Reviewed by Peter D. Kramer]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Do]]></category><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harm]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. Shifts Policy on Geneva Conventions ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071100094.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071100094.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration has agreed to apply the Geneva Conventions to all terrorism suspects in U.S. custody, bowing to the Supreme Court's recent rejection of policies that have imprisoned hundreds for years without trials. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Babington and Michael Abramowitz]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shifts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geneva]]></category><category><![CDATA[Conventions]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Medical Oaths Betrayed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/07/AR2006070701158.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/07/AR2006070701158.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In November 2003, an Iraqi guard smuggled a pistol into the U.S. military prison at Abu Ghraib and gave it to a prisoner, Ameen Saeed al-Sheik. Tipped off, military police quickly began a cell-to-cell search. When they reached his cell, Sheik went for the hidden pistol; gunfire was exchanged and a sergeant was hit. According to sworn testimony, the soldiers wrestled the prisoner to the floor and sent him to the hospital with a dislocated shoulder and shotgun wounds to his legs.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112200668" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112200668" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven H. Miles]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Medical]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oaths]]></category><category><![CDATA[Betrayed]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bad Advice Blamed For Banned Tactics ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061602042.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061602042.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A secretive military Special Operations group in Iraq used several unauthorized interrogation tactics on detainees in early 2004 after it erroneously received an outdated policy from commanders in Baghdad, according to a high-level military investigative report released yesterday at the Pentagon. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Advice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blamed]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Banned]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tactics]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Abuse Trial Revives Old Questions ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052101119.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052101119.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As the Iraq insurgency grew rapidly in the spring of 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld complained to Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the commander of U.S. forces in the country, that he was not seeing results from the interrogations of Iraqis held at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[R. Jeffrey Smith and Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Revives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old]]></category><category><![CDATA[Questions]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Top Officer Ordered To Testify on Abuse ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/AR2006041801588.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/AR2006041801588.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A military judge in Washington yesterday ordered prosecutors to produce Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller as a defense witness in the trial of a military dog handler accused of abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the first time a general officer will be compelled to testify in court about controversial U.S. interrogation and detention policies. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Top]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ordered]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Testify]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Memo Shows Officer's Shift on Use of Dogs ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401383.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401383.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The top military intelligence officer at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq recommended in early 2004 that Army dog handlers not be disciplined for allegedly abusing detainees, urging commanders to immediately suspend the approved use of dogs in interrogations.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112201583" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112201583" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Memo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shows]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officer's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shift]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Use]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dogs]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Officer Says He Wrongly Approved Use of Dogs ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/15/AR2006031502621.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/15/AR2006031502621.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The top U.S. military intelligence officer at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq testified yesterday that he inappropriately approved the use of dogs for interrogations without consulting higher-ranking officers, accepting responsibility for giving his subordinates an aggressive tool that was used to terrify detainees. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Officer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says]]></category><category><![CDATA[He]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wrongly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Approved]]></category><category><![CDATA[Use]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dogs]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Detainee in Photo With Dog Was 'High-Value' Suspect ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/12/AR2006031200962.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/12/AR2006031200962.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Army Sgt. Michael J. Smith faces a court-martial today on charges that he used his military working dog to harass and threaten detainees, one of the prime examples of that alleged misconduct will be a photograph of Smith holding the dog just inches from the face of a detainee. It is one of the notorious images to emerge from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Detainee]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Photo]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dog]]></category><category><![CDATA[Was]]></category><category><![CDATA['High-Value']]></category><category><![CDATA[Suspect]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Documents Said to Tie Hussein to Killings ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801435.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801435.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, Feb. 28 -- Prosecutors on Tuesday presented documents they say link Saddam Hussein to the executions of more than 140 people following a failed attempt in 1982 to assassinate him, as the trial of the former Iraqi leader resumed after a two-week recess. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nelson Hernandez and Omar Fekeiki]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Documents]]></category><category><![CDATA[Said]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hussein]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Killings]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Sentence in Death Of Iraqi Angers Son ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/24/AR2006012401544.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/24/AR2006012401544.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Mohammed Mowhoush, the son of an Iraqi general who died in U.S. custody in late 2003, assailed the U.S. military yesterday for imposing a reprimand instead of prison time for an Army interrogator convicted in connection with his father's death, saying the United States has not properly administered justice.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112203031" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112203031" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Sentence]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Death]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraqi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Son]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Former Abu Ghraib Guard Calls Top Brass Culpable for Abuse ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/22/AR2006012200928.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/22/AR2006012200928.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Stepping into the Abu Ghraib prison for the first time, Megan Ambuhl was stunned. There were naked men in dusty cells, male prisoners wearing women's underwear, others hooded and shackled in contorted positions to metal railings. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Former]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Calls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Top]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brass]]></category><category><![CDATA[Culpable]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A General's Dishonor ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/14/AR2006011400857.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/14/AR2006011400857.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BY INVOKING his right to avoid self-incrimination, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller has avoided a much-needed cross-examination of his role in the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He has also added to his dishonor as a commander who oversaw improper interrogations at Guantanamo Bay, then introduced some of the same practices in Iraq in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Gen. Miller's subsequent account of his actions, in sworn testimony to Congress and Army investigators, has been contradicted by at least four other witnesses, so it's not surprising that he has sought shelter in the military's equivalent of the Fifth Amendment. He has yet to be the subject of any charge. But anyone who still accepts the Abu Ghraib cover story peddled by the White House and the Pentagon -- that the abuses portrayed in now-infamous photographs were invented by rogue guards on the night shift -- ought to be asking what this two-star general is afraid of. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[General's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dishonor]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Tough Interrogation Tactics Were Opposed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/12/AR2006011202220.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/12/AR2006011202220.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Members of a Defense Department investigative task force were told not to participate in aggressive interrogation techniques approved for use at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002 because officers and lawyers believed the tactics violated policy and would not elicit information, according to documents released by the Pentagon. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Tough]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interrogation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tactics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Were]]></category><category><![CDATA[Opposed]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ General Asserts Right On Self-Incrimination In Iraq Abuse Cases ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/11/AR2006011102502.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/11/AR2006011102502.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, a central figure in the U.S. detainee-abuse scandal, this week invoked his right not to incriminate himself in court-martial proceedings against two soldiers accused of using dogs to intimidate captives at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, according to lawyers involved in the case.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112208565" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112208565" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[General]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asserts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Right]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Self-Incrimination]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cases]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ President Relents, Backs Torture Ban ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/15/AR2005121502241.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/15/AR2005121502241.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush reversed position yesterday and endorsed a torture ban crafted by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) after months of White House attempts to weaken the measure, which would prohibit the "cruel, inhuman, or degrading" treatment of any detainee in U.S. custody anywhere in the world. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[President]]></category><category><![CDATA[Relents,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Backs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ban]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Stepping Back From Torture ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/15/AR2005121501438.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/15/AR2005121501438.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's not about who our enemies are, it's about who we are. That has been Sen. John McCain's refrain as he campaigned for a ban on cruel interrogation techniques, and his success in convincing the Senate, the House and now President Bush may mark a small turning point for the country. The United States is beginning to find its way out of the moral thicket into which it stumbled after Sept. 11, 2001. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Ignatius]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Stepping]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ No Secret Rules on Torture ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/14/AR2005121402193.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/14/AR2005121402193.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's reported that the Army is forwarding a classified addendum to the new Army Field Manual on interrogation operations. According to these reports, the 10-page addendum provides dozens of examples of what procedures may and may not be used by interrogators, and it informs commanders on the circumstances for their employment. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Victor Hansen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Secret]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Torture, American-Style ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/25/AR2005112501552.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/25/AR2005112501552.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There are two torture debates going on in America today: One is about fantasy, and the other is about reality.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112210353" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112210353" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Luban]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Torture,]]></category><category><![CDATA[American-Style]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Abuse Included Use of Lions, Iraqis Allege ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111500059.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111500059.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Two Iraqi men who were arrested in Iraq in 2003 but never charged with crimes say that U.S. troops put them in a cage with lions, pretended to execute them in a firing line and humiliated them during interrogations at multiple detention facilities. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Included]]></category><category><![CDATA[Use]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lions,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraqis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allege]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Medical Experts Debate Role In Facilitating Interrogations ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/13/AR2005111300868.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/13/AR2005111300868.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On Oct. 19, leaders of several medical organizations flew to the U.S. Navy detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After meeting with officials and two psychologists who served as consultants during interrogations with detainees, a vigorous debate sprang up among the experts over the ethics of physicians and caregivers participating in the debriefing of prisoners. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shankar Vedantam]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Medical]]></category><category><![CDATA[Experts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Role]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facilitating]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interrogations]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Defense Document Bans Detainee Torture ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110801616.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110801616.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Pentagon officials released a new directive yesterday on Defense Department intelligence interrogations, mandating that all questioning of detainees in U.S. military custody include "humane" treatment and banning "acts of physical or mental torture." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[Document]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detainee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Central Torture Agency? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110801108.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110801108.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Americans do not join the CIA to commit torture. Yet that could be the result if a proposal advanced by Vice President Cheney becomes law.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112212816" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112212816" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeffrey H. Smith]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Central]]></category><category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agency?]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Cheney Plan Exempts CIA From Bill Barring Abuse of Detainees ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102402051.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102402051.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration has proposed exempting employees of the Central Intelligence Agency from a legislative measure endorsed earlier this month by 90 members of the Senate that would bar cruel and degrading treatment of any prisoners in U.S. custody. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[R. Jeffrey Smith and Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exempts]]></category><category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detainees]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Future Investigation ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101500973.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101500973.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ IT'S NOT YET clear whether senators will succeed in their effort to force the Bush administration to give up the use of "cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment of foreign detainees, despite a 90-9 vote by the Senate. Resistance by House Republicans and the White House threat of a veto means this badly needed restoration of the American commitment to human rights faces an uphill battle in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, the outcome of another legislative initiative stemming from the hundreds of documented cases of prisoner abuse is even cloudier. Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Michigan) so far has won no Republican support for a proposal to create an independent commission to investigate the treatment of detainees since 2001. Given what is known -- and still unknown -- about this shocking and shameful record, the rejection of accountability by the administration and Congress is a scandal in its own right. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Future]]></category><category><![CDATA[Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Nine Explain Interrogation Votes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/06/AR2005100601802.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/06/AR2005100601802.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Reacting to reports of abuse of detainees in Iraq and elsewhere, the Senate voted 90 to 9 Wednesday night for an amendment by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that would ban the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in the custody of the U.S. military. The provision, inserted in a military spending bill, also would restrict interrogation techniques to those authorized in the U.S. Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Nine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Explain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interrogation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Votes]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Lawmaker Tours Become Part of Guantanamo Life ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501568.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501568.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- As part of a major Pentagon public relations offensive, dozens of lawmakers are being flown to the maximum-security units here for VIP tours conducted by generals who portray the cells as safe and even comfortable places for suspected terrorists to spend their days.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112214558" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112214558" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Allen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Lawmaker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tours]]></category><category><![CDATA[Become]]></category><category><![CDATA[Part]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Life]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201941.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201941.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush was being stubborn with his American captors, and a series of intense beatings and creative interrogation tactics were not enough to break his will. On the morning of Nov. 26, 2003, a U.S. Army interrogator and a military guard grabbed a green sleeping bag, stuffed Mowhoush inside, wrapped him in an electrical cord, laid him on the floor and began to go to work. Again. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Documents]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tell]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brutal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Improvisation]]></category><category><![CDATA[by]]></category><category><![CDATA[GIs]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Army General Advised Using Dogs at Abu Ghraib, Officer Testifies ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/27/AR2005072702083.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/27/AR2005072702083.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller told top officers during an advisory visit to Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison that they needed to get military working dogs for use in interrogations, and he advocated procedures then in use at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to court testimony yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Army]]></category><category><![CDATA[General]]></category><category><![CDATA[Advised]]></category><category><![CDATA[Using]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dogs]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Testifies]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Abu Ghraib Dog Tactics Came From Guantanamo ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/26/AR2005072601792.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/26/AR2005072601792.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Military interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq learned about the use of military working dogs to intimidate detainees from a team of interrogators dispatched from the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to court testimony yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dog]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tactics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Came]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Need for Congress ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/23/AR2005072300738.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/23/AR2005072300738.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ THIS MONTH a federal appeals court overturned a lower court's decision halting the Bush administration's plans for military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The earlier decision contained some legal errors, so the ruling was not a surprise. But the judgment has the effect of allowing the Bush administration to resume its ill-advised attempt to craft an almost entirely new justice system for enemy combatants accused of war crimes. The Pentagon announced that the tribunals, known as commissions, would resume as soon as possible.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112216770" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112216770" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Need]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ White House Aims to Block Legislation on Detainees ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/22/AR2005072201727.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/22/AR2005072201727.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration in recent days has been lobbying to block legislation supported by Republican senators that would bar the U.S. military from engaging in "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" of detainees, from hiding prisoners from the Red Cross, and from using interrogation methods not authorized by a new Army field manual. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White and R. Jeffrey Smith]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[White]]></category><category><![CDATA[House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aims]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Block]]></category><category><![CDATA[Legislation]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detainees]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Military Lawyers Fought Policy on Interrogations ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/14/AR2005071402187.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/14/AR2005071402187.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Three top military lawyers said yesterday that they lodged complaints about the Justice Department's definition of torture and how it would be applied to interrogations of enemy prisoners captured by U.S. forces, the first time they have publicly acknowledged that they objected to the policy as it was being developed in early 2003. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Military]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fought]]></category><category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interrogations]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Abu Ghraib Tactics Were First Used at Guantanamo ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302380.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302380.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Interrogators at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, forced a stubborn detainee to wear women's underwear on his head, confronted him with snarling military working dogs and attached a leash to his chains, according to a newly released military investigation that shows the tactics were employed there months before military police used them on detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tactics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Were]]></category><category><![CDATA[First]]></category><category><![CDATA[Used]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Tortured Arguments ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/08/AR2005070802285.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/08/AR2005070802285.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Let's agree about two things. First, comparing the United States' current interrogation practices to those of the Soviet gulag or Nazi concentration camps, as Sen. Richard Durbin did recently, is careless. Second, being better than Stalin or Hitler has never been America's goal. We have thankfully always aspired to something much higher. But in the super-charged torture debates, it's much easier for the Bush administration to focus on the critics' choice of words than on the interrogation practices themselves. And too often, administration critics seem more interested in defending strained analogies such as Durbin's than in confronting the most vexing questions that many Americans are struggling to resolve.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112218039" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112218039" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliette N. Kayyem]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Tortured]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arguments]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Review Calls Abuse Cases Isolated ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/07/AR2005070702158.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/07/AR2005070702158.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An Army surgeon general's review of detainee medical operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found isolated incidents of abuse but, like several other internal military investigations of U.S. detention operations, found no systemic problems linked to U.S. military personnel and their care of detainees. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Review]]></category><category><![CDATA[Calls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cases]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isolated]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Regaining Respect ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/26/AR2005062601036.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/26/AR2005062601036.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Law matters, especially in time of war. This is true not only for moral reasons but also because adhering to the rule of law makes us stronger. We are now paying the consequences, "big-time" as the vice president might say, for a number of decisions made right after Sept. 11, 2001, that gave short shrift to both domestic and international law. The Bush administration determined to treat the attacks as a national security matter and not a law enforcement matter. That was the right emphasis, but they struck hard and largely ignored the law. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeffrey H. Smith]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Regaining]]></category><category><![CDATA[Respect]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Medics Are Ordered to Report Abuse ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601509.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601509.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Defense Department's top health affairs official this week instructed all medical personnel who treat detainees in U.S. custody to report any suspected inhumane treatment and to protect their patients as they would U.S. soldiers, a new set of guidelines after allegations of medic participation in abuse. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Medics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ordered]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Report]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Guantanamo Bay to Stay Open, Cheney Says ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/13/AR2005061301513.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/13/AR2005061301513.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Vice President Cheney offered a vigorous defense yesterday of the secretive prison for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and said the United States has no plans to shut it down.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112218840" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112218840" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim VandeHei and Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Open,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hyperbole and Human Rights ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/02/AR2005060201749.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/02/AR2005060201749.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Why do President Bush's critics make life so easy for him? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hyperbole]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rights]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Inmates Alleged Koran Abuse ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052501395.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052501395.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Detainees told FBI interrogators as early as April 2002 that mistreatment of the Koran was widespread at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and many said they were severely beaten by captors there or in Afghanistan, according to FBI documents released yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Eggen and Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Inmates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alleged]]></category><category><![CDATA[Koran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Army Warns Iraqi Forces On Abuse Of Detainees ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/19/AR2005051901863.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/19/AR2005051901863.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, May 19 -- Before leaving Iraq in February, the 1st Cavalry Division compiled a list of more than 100 allegations of abusive treatment of detainees over the previous six months -- not by U.S. troops, but by Iraqi soldiers and police. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bradley Graham]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Army]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraqi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detainees]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Audit of Iraq Spending Spurs Criminal Probe ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/04/AR2005050402256.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/04/AR2005050402256.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Investigators have opened a criminal inquiry into millions of dollars missing in Iraq after auditors uncovered indications of fraud in nearly $100 million in reconstruction spending that could not be properly accounted for.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112220993" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/6;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=281112220993" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Griff Witte]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Audit]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spending]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spurs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Criminal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Probe]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Pfc. England to Plead Guilty to Abu Ghraib Abuses ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/02/AR2005050200295.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/02/AR2005050200295.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2005 07:36:02 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ FORT HOOD, Texas -- Defense attorneys are hoping a plea deal by Pfc. Lynndie England will be accepted by an Army judge as the reservist whose image became synonymous with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal heads to court. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Pfc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[England]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plead]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guilty]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abuses]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Rights Groups Reject Prison Abuse Findings ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/23/AR2005042301368.html?nav=rss_world/special/6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://