April 26, 2011 Caravan - Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture

Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: The Torture Doctors – PLoS Medicine journal Report by psychiatrist and retired Brig. Gen. Stephen Xenakis and Vincent Iacopino (Medical adviser)

Neglect of Medical Evidence of Torture in Guantánamo Bay: A Case Series Citation: Iacopino V, Xenakis SN (2011) Neglect of Medical Evidence of Torture in Guantánamo Bay: A Case Series. PLoS Med 8(4): e1001027. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001027 Extract:… ” In reality, the implementation of EITs included “unauthorized” acts of torture, were inflicted

April 26, 2011 Caravan - Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture

Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: The Torture Doctors – PLoS Medicine journal Report by psychiatrist and retired Brig. Gen. Stephen Xenakis and Vincent Iacopino (Medical adviser)

Neglect of Medical Evidence of Torture in Guantánamo Bay: A Case Series

Citation: Iacopino V, Xenakis SN (2011) Neglect of Medical Evidence of Torture in Guantánamo Bay: A Case Series. PLoS Med 8(4): e1001027. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001027

Extract:
… ” In reality, the implementation of EITs included “unauthorized” acts of torture, were inflicted over prolonged periods of time, and resulted in severe and prolonged physical and mental pain. The abuses reported in this case series could not be practiced without the interrogators and medical monitors being aware of the severe and prolonged physical and mental pain that they caused.” …

Full Report at:
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001027

More at:

Gitmo Doctors Hid Evidence of Torture – by Spencer Ackerman – April 26, 2011

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/gitmo-docs-torture/

April 26, 2011 Caravan - Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture

Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: The Torture Doctors – PLoS Medicine journal Report by psychiatrist and retired Brig. Gen. Stephen Xenakis and Vincent Iacopino (Medical adviser)

March 18, 2011 Caravan - Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture

Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: US spy operation that manipulates social media –

Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 March 2011
by Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has been working with “private security” and lobbying firms to attack and undermine “opponents”.

The companies involved are, among others, Hunton and Williams, whose attorneys solicited private security firms HB Gary Federal, Palantir, and Berico Technologies (Team Themis collectively) to develop a sabotage campaign against certain “opponents”.

The private spy company investigated members of the family, including children, of the so called U.S. Chamber of Commerce “opponents”.

Aaron Barr, an executive at HB Gary Federal circulated emails and documents with personal lives details and even photos of the opponents’ family including their children.

Details were revealed by one of the targets of the action – ThinkProgress.org.

In an email from Aaron Barr to Hunton & Williams attorney John Woods, he points out to the need of reducing exposure so that he won’t be identified and shows how Woods and another fellow Hunton attorney Richard Wyatt are “vulnerable” in social media.

The three security companies – Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies – were also implicated in a plot to target the online whistleblower WikiLeaks and some of its prominent supporters

Full Article at ThinkProgress.org

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/chamberleaks-target-families/

March 18, 2011 Caravan - Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture

Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: US spy operation that manipulates social media –

Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 March 2011by Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks Related Post:U.S. Chamber of Commerce plots against “opponents” The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has been working with “private security” and lobbying firms to attack and undermine “opponents”.