While many of the interrogation methods employed are torture, this term is meant to carve out a space for "new" torture, this is such a big issue that simply lumping it with torture in general would muddy the waters.
CNN's senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin has sharply criticized the legal action to bring war crimes charges against Rumsfeld and other top U.S. officials in a German court.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologizes to Arar and offers a $10.5M compensation package for the extreme psychological and emotional torture he sustained for 10 months in a Syrian prison.
The Military Commissions Act, signed into law by Congress, allows the U.S. to retain its authority on deciding what forms of interrogation are not war crimes under the War Crimes Act and the Geneva...
