On AlterNet: interrogations

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Freed U.S. Reporter Roxana Saberi: Fear Led to My False Confession to Iranian Interrogators

"Yes, I'm a U.S. spy," Saberi told Iranian interrogators after being threatened with with harsh punishment, even execution.

In all, 98 detainees have died while in U.S. hands, with 34 identified as homicides, at least eight of which were tortured to death.

Leon Panetta said on Thursday that interrogators will be replaced by agency employees and promised that no suspects would be tortured.

Sgt. Joseph Mayo was sentenced to 35 years for his role in the killing, in which four Iraqis were bound, shot, and thrown in a canal.

"How anyone can say that torture keeps Americans safe is beyond me," says the author of How to Break a Terrorist.

The president-elect has been a longtime critic of the U.S. gulag at Guantanamo Bay.

How an interrogator working for the U.S. Army had a spiritual awakening at Iraq's most notorious prison.

Psychologists have become accomplices to torture. They owe it to their profession to oppose abuses, not participate in them.

Salim Hamdan's military commission trial "will never be seen as legitimate by the world."

A closer look at the first GuantÃ¡namo interrogation to be released on video reveals, above all, a "victimized and exploited" child.

With growing evidence of involuntary drugging of prisoners at GuantÃ¡namo, health professionals must take an unequivocal stance on torture.

In the race for the presidency of the APA, an anti-torture candidate is beating the odds.

We now have confirmation that the President of the United States gave the OK to torture. Where is the media? Where are the Democrats?

The Department of Justice memo released last week is a chilling -- and revealing -- look at the Bush administration's torture policy.