Outgoing CIA Director Michael Hayden vigorously defended on Thursday the agency's use of secret prisons and coercive interrogation methods on suspected al Qaida terrorists, saying they helped avert new terrorist attacks and were done "out of duty, not out of enthusiasm."
Hayden argued that the CIA detainee program shouldn't be subjected to a public investigation because the administration had obtained Justice Department legal opinions to support it and had informed members of Congress.
TVNL Comment: If breaking laws can be called a 'duty,' then why should we have ANY laws at all? Just asking....
The report, seen exclusively by Middle East Eye, is based on testimonies from Palestinian former prisoners...
A prominent Palestinian children's rights charity has shut down its operations after decades of documenting violations...
Ritaj Abdulrahman Rihan was practising the subtraction of four-digit numbers during a maths lesson in Beit...
Questionnaires of children forcibly taken from a Kherson orphanage have been found on a Russian state...
