Showing posts with label water boarding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water boarding. Show all posts

Monday, January 11, 2010

SEC expands charges against BofA

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/SEC-expands-charges-against-apf-2636016521.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=

So why bother?


The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday it had asked a federal judge in Manhattan to allow it to file the new charges against the biggest U.S. bank. But the SEC also said it wouldn't charge any individual Bank of America officials, directors or attorneys because they are not alleged to have "deliberately concealed" information from the bank's outside attorneys or otherwise acted with intent to mislead.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-4136-0-3-3--.html

That's a pretty heavy precaution taken for supposed simulated drownings

Additionally, Sifton notes the CIA may have had some close calls with detainees nearly dying during interrogations: the May 10, 2005, Bush Administration torture memo by Stephen Bradbury notes that doctors were nearby to perform a tracheotomy if during waterboarding the suspect is approaching death.