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Contenu du rapport
Content of the report
Les vingt conclusions du rapport sur les tortures menées par la CIA
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Complicité des autres pays
Complicity of other countries
Why Canada can't claim innocence
CBC News 10/12/14 - Canadian agents may not have physically participated in CIA torture tactics, but Stephen Harper's claim that Canada played no role whatsoever misrepresents our relationship with U.S. spies, say a number of security analysts. "It gives us a good conscience" to be able to deny participation in torture, but "it doesn't take away the fact that we're as guilty as them," says Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former senior intelligence officer with CSIS, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. As Juneau-Katsuya sees it, Canada's spy  agencies have a tremendously close relationship with the CIA and probably had a pretty good idea how the intelligence was generated. [...] The [US Senate torture] report contained at least three references to Canadians involved in extremist activity, including a mention of "al-Qaeda operative" Abderraouf Jdey, a Canadian citizen, and an FBI interview in which another prominent suspect, Abu Zubaydah, alleges he sent a Canadian to meet with a Malaysian al-Qaeda member. [A]s Juneau-Katsuya points out, intelligence Canada shared with the CIA led to the torture of a number of Canadians. "That's exactly what took place with Maher Arar, that's exactly what took place with Omar Khadr, that's exactly what took place with tons of other people," says Juneau-Katsuya, who calls Harper's stance "a very hypocritical position."
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Stephen Harper rebuffs call to rescind federal torture directives
CBC News 09/12/14 - The official Opposition pointed to a new U.S. report that discredits torture in renewing a call for the Conservative government to rescind its information-sharing policy. [...] In the House of Commons, New Democrat MP Peter Julian said Tuesday the conclusion to be drawn from the American report is simple - torture doesn't work. However, Julian pointed out, the Canadian  government has issued directives to several police and security agencies allowing them to use and share information derived using brutal methods. The instructions give five federal agencies - the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the RCMP, the military, Canada Border Services and the Communications Security Establishment - the go-ahead to exchange information with a foreign partner even when doing so may give rise to a substantial risk of torture.
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Torture: le NPD veut freiner la politique de partage des renseignements
More than a quarter of the world's countries helped the CIA run its torture program
The Huffington Post 09/12/2014 - According to several U.S. officials involved with the negotiations, the intelligence community has long been concerned that the Senate document would enable readers to identify the many countries that aided the CIA's controversial torture program between 2002 and roughly 2006. These countries made the CIA program possible in two ways: by enabling rendition, which involved transferring U.S. detainees abroad without due legal process, and by providing facilities far beyond the reach of U.S. law where those detainees were subjected to torture. The officials all told The Huffington Post in recent weeks that they were nervous the names of those countries might be included in the declassified  summary of the Senate report. The names of the countries ultimately did not appear in the summary. This represents a last-minute victory for the White House and the CIA, since Senate staff was pushing to redact as little as possible from its document. The various sites in foreign countries are now only identified in the report by a color code, with each detention facility corresponding to a color, such as "Detention Site Black." But immediately after the document was released, journalists began to crack the code by cross-referencing details in the Senate study with previous reports about the CIA's activities in different countries. Readers of the report can also learn how the agency managed its relationship with foreign governments, offering monetary payments for their silence and undermining more public U.S. diplomatic efforts by explicitly telling their foreign contacts not to talk to U.S. ambassadors about the torture program. Read more - Lire plusOpinion: Europe must come clean about its own complicityUS hid UK links in CIA torture report at request of British spy agenciesRomania 'to clear up' allegations over CIA prisons
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Responsabilité
Accountability
Only CIA agent jailed for torture program is whistleblower who confirmed its existence
Common Dreams 10/12/2014 - There is only one U.S. government employee who has gone to jail in connection with the widespread torture program by the CIA documented in the executive summary of the Senate report that was partially released Tuesday: the man who helped expose it six years ago. John Kiriakou, who worked for the CIA between 1990 and 2004, stepped forward in 2007 and confirmed to press outlets some of the first details about the agency's widespread use of torture. Among Kiriakou's revelations was an account to ABC News of the repeated water-  boardings of Abu Zubaydah-a man currently imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay without charges whose 12 years of torture and abuse at the hands of the U.S. were further exposed in the Senate report. In 2013, Kiriakou-a father of five-was prosecuted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act for allegedly revealing classified information to a reporter. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison, which he is still serving. His incarceration came after the Obama administration refused to prosecute any of the higher-up government officials who designed, authorized, or otherwise took part in implementation of the torture program. Kiriakou is widely considered a victim of the Obama administration's war on whistleblowers, in which the president's administration has charged more people under the Espionage Act than all previous administrations combined. Read more - Lire plusCIA report: 'Torture is a crime and those responsible must be brought to justice'
The Guardian 09/12/14 - The UN, human rights activists and legal experts have renewed calls for the Obama administration to prosecute US officials responsible for the CIA torture programme revealed in extensive detail following the release of a damning report by the Senate intelligence committee. [...] "Today's release once again makes crystal clear that the US government used torture. Torture is a crime and those responsible for crimes must be brought to justice," Amnesty International USA's executive director, Steven W Hawkins, said  in a statement. "Under the UN convention against torture, no exceptional circumstances whatsoever can be invoked to justify torture, and all those responsible for authorising or carrying out torture or other ill-treatment must be fully investigated." In Geneva, the United Nations's special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Ben Emmerson, said CIA officers and other US government officials should be prosecuted. "The fact that the policies revealed in this report were authorised at a high level within the US government provides no excuse whatsoever," Emmerson said in a statement. Read more - Lire plusCIA torture report unlikely to spark criminal prosecutionsAmericans involved in torture can be prosecuted abroad, analysts sayHow the torture could start againACLU head's 'Pardon Bush' op-ed sparks controversyOpinion: Les horreurs et l'impunitéACLU: After torture report, lawsuit tests US commitment to accountabilityThe detainee abuse photos Obama didn't want you to seeObama's long arc on tortureACLU: CIA agents said "no" to torture
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Réactions suite au rapport
Reactions to the report
CIA torture report: global reaction roundup
The Guardian 10/12/2014 - The UN has led international condemnation of the CIA's interrogation and detention programme laid bare by the Senate's intelligence committee. Its special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights  has called for the criminal prosecution of Bush-era officials involved. Here is a roundup of world reaction to Dianne Feinstein's report, including comments from leaders or state news agencies from the UK, China, Iran, Russia, France, Malaysia, Egypt, Poland and North Korea. Read more - Lire plusEurope's reaction muted on CIA torture reportAuthor of interrogation memo says CIA maybe went too far'Do no harm': Doctors blast medical professionals for role In CIA torture regimeAfter duo created CIA torture methods, did world's largest group of psychologists enable abuses?NYT editorial: The Senate Report on the C.I.A.'s Torture and LiesThe Guardian editorial: America's shame and disgraceUS tells court that documents from torture investigation should remain secret
"Rectal feeding" has nothing to do with nutrition, everything to do with tortureMike Gravel to Senator Mark Udall: Make full torture probe public like I did with Pentagon PapersCIA director defends use of interrogation tactics, avoiding issue of tortureCIA torture report: Interrogation chief Jose Rodriquez warns of fallout
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Analyse de la couverture médiatique
Analysis of the media coverage
US television provides ample platform for American torturers, but none to their victims
The Intercept 16/12/2014 - Ever since the torture report was released last week, U.S. television outlets have endlessly featured American torturers and torture proponents. But there was one group that was almost never heard from: the victims of their torture, not even the ones recognized by the U.S. Government itself as innocent, not even the family members of the ones they tortured to death. Whether by design (most likely) or effect, this inexcusable omission radically distorts coverage. Whenever America is forced to confront its heinous  acts, the central strategy is to disappear the victims, render them invisible. That's what robs them of their humanity: it's the process of dehumanization. That, in turns, is what enables American elites first to support atrocities, and then, when forced to reckon with them, tell themselves that - despite some isolated and well-intentioned bad acts - they are still really good, elevated, noble, admirable people. It's hardly surprising, then, that a Washington Post/ABC News poll released this morning found that a large majority of Americans believe torture is justified even when you call it "torture." Not having to think about actual human victims makes it easy to justify any sort of crime.
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Réflexions sur la torture
Reflections on torture
Pourquoi la torture?
Le Devoir 16/12/2014 - Des éléments de la tradition américaine, notamment d'un état d'esprit fort répandu dans la population tant chez des élites que dans la classe moyenne, peuvent aider à comprendre ce comportement. D'abord, l'exceptionnalisme américain, la tendance à considérer les États-Unis comme une civilisation unique au monde, un phare susceptible d'éclairer l'humanité, peut facilement conduire à une bonne conscience à toute épreuve, à un patriotisme prétendument infaillible, selon le slogan populaire :  America can't go wrong. C'est là une variante de la maxime erronée mais toujours séduisante que la fin justifie les moyens. Barry Goldwater, le père du conservatisme contemporain du Parti républicain déclarait fièrement que «l'extrémisme au service de la liberté n'est pas un vice ». Encore aujourd'hui, plusieurs, surtout des républicains, se portent à la défense de la CIA en faisant valoir qu'on ne pouvait traiter gentiment les responsables du meurtre ignoble de 3000 Américains. Quand il s'agit de venger l'honneur du pays, selon eux, on ne saurait s'interroger sur la légalité des moyens employés. En définitive, tout ce qui est susceptible de mener à une totale rétribution devient acceptable. Lire plus - Read more
The Intercept 16/12/2014 - The CIA's violations of its detainees are the tip of the torture iceberg. We run the risk, in the necessary debate sparked by the Senate's release of 500 pages on CIA interrogation abuses, of focusing too narrowly on what happened to 119 detainees held at the agency's black sites from 2002-2006. The problem of American torture - how much occurred, what impact it had, who bears  responsibility - is much larger. Across Iraq and Afghanistan, American soldiers and the indigenous forces they fought alongside committed a large number of abuses against a considerable number of people. It didn't begin at Abu Ghraib and it didn't end there. The evidence, which has emerged in a drip-drip way over the years, is abundant though less dramatic than the aforementioned 500-page executive summary of the Senate's still-classified report on the CIA.
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"Psychological torture is enshrined in U.S. law": Complicity in abuses began long before Bush
Torture report highlights consequences of permanent war
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Anti-terror legislation
Législation anti-terroriste
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Criminalisation de la dissidence
Criminalization of dissent
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Freedom of the net
Liberté sur Internet
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Guantanamo
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Guerre au terrorisme
War on terror
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Immigration and refugee rights
Immigration et droits des réfugié.es
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Press freedom
Liberté de la presse
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Surveillance globale
Mass surveillance
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Terrorism cases
Procès pour terrorisme
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Terrorist listing
Liste d'entités terroristes
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News from ICLMG
Canada must take action to strengthen global efforts to end torture, say NGOs in open letter to PM Harper
On December 10th, the International Human Rights Day, ICLMG and other civil society groups have joined together in an open letter  calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to put Canada back in the global effort to end torture and ill-treatment around the world. Read the letter |
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Les opinions exprimées ne reflètent pas nécessairement les positions de la CSILC - The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG
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What is the News Digest? Qu'est-ce que la Revue de l'actualité?
The News Digest is ICLMG's weekly publication of news articles, events, calls to action and much more regarding national security, anti-terrorism, and civil liberties. The ICLMG is a national coalition of thirty-eight Canadian civil society organizations that was established in the aftermath of the September, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. +++
La revue de l'actualité est notre publication hebdomadaire de nouvelles, d'évènements, d'appels à l'action, et beaucoup plus, entourant la sécurité nationale, la lutte au terrorisme, et les libertés civiles. La CSILC est une coalition nationale de 38 organisations de la société civile canadienne qui a été créée suite aux attentats terroristes de septembre 2001 aux États-Unis.
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