What Could Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Beard Tell Us About His Treatment?

By: Saturday September 4, 2010 8:38 am

The stress-related hormone cortisol can be incorporated into hair and may serve as record of a person’s level of stress over a period of time. Would Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s beard be able to tell us if his treatment conditions have been different under the Bush and Obama administratons?

Lindsey Graham v. the U.S. Military

By: Thursday February 25, 2010 11:00 am

Respected members of the U.S. Military are speaking out against military commissions for suspected terrorists and supporting the use of civilian federal courts instead.

The Art of the Forced Confession

By: Wednesday April 22, 2009 12:11 pm

Iran has convicted American-born journalist Roxana Saberi of espionage, using a confession that was allegedly extorted from her by a false promise of freedom. The United States of America, leader and moral arbiter of the world’s nations, waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times in one month in order to get him to say whatever his captors wanted him to say despite clear evidence that any such confessions would be false. Discuss.

7 and 9 year Old Tortured by the CIA to Make Them Tell Where Their Father was Hiding

By: Sunday April 19, 2009 3:18 pm

People opposed to torture are stating statistist, not the life stories of actually victem’s of torture who had or are havinging thier lifes even sanity discomboberated.

Let’s start to correct this.

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