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Human Rights Highlights of the newly declassified CIA documents
On Monday, the Obama administration released newly declassified 2004 CIA documents detailing the Bush administration's policy of capturing suspected terrorists and interrogating them in overseas prisons. Some highlights:
- CIA operatives used "unauthorized, improvised, inhumane and undocumented detention and interrogation techniques" that went even farther than the already permissive Justice Department legal opinions allowed.
 Haitham Rashaidh was among the last to leave his home near Ein al-Auja, a natural spring... |
 Since Andy Burnham became prime minister, there has been a serious shift in approach to British... | ||
 Home demolitions by Israeli forces; attacks on healthcare infrastructure, homes, and schools; mass displacement of Palestinians;... |
 A body representing Palestinian citizens of Israel has condemned what it called an “obsessive campaign of... |
