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Search results for "interrogation" ...
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Anatomy of a Bad Confession
The reporter investigates whether the Worcester Police Department coerced a confession and wrongfully failed to recognize the Miranda Rights of a sixteen-year-old girl.
Tags: Miranda Rights; confession; coercion; interrogation
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Killings At The Canal: The Army Tapes
War crime by American soldiers in Iraq is something that has never been seen before, until now. Four Iraqi detainees were killed and no one knew why, until the videotapes of the interrogations were found and everything was revealed. Also, the rules of the Army led the American soldiers to kill these detainees, as written in a memo.
Tags: Baghdad; sergeants; military; crime; Joshua Hartson; mission; murder; weapons; federal government
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Killing Fields: Long Road to Justice
“An investigation of Khmer Rouge tribunal being held in Cambodia and allegations of corruption”. Further, the investigation began with the hunt for Ta Chan who was the chief interrogator and suspected of living in a remote Cambodian village. Also, torture was a daily experience for many of the prisoners being held and resulted in a number of deaths.
Tags: S-21 prison; camp; trial; charges; jungle; death camp; court; prosecution; horrific; institutions; Vietnamese; crimes
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Inside Scientology
"The story provides an unprecedented view of life inside the Church of Scientology as told by former church staffers". Their accounts state how management promoted a culture of violence and abuse. Further, if someone ran away from the Church they were interrogated to keep them quiet about the inner troubles. But in late 2009, many parishioners began to speak out about the management's behavior.
Tags: Church; Marty Rathbun; Mike Rinder; David Miscavige; leader; physical violence; religion
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Crossing the Line
"We're coming after you." That was the Houston Police Chief's message to thieves when he launched the elite, $5 million a year Crime Reduction Unit. The problem? Some of the department's own officers alleged "we're coming after you" meant violating citizens' rights and search and seizure laws to build flimsy cases and rack up arrest numbers that ultimately did little to fight crime. KHOU-TV identified how CRU officers routinely stopped, handcuffed and interrogated citizens for petty infractions such as jaywalking or riding a bicycle without a light. The vast majority of the time these citizens were let go, but if police did make an arrest, it was usually for trace levels of drugs, which often resulted in plea bargain prosecutions for minimal jail sentences. One veteran defense attorney described the CRU as nothing more than "a mill to get convictions."
Tags: Houston; Texas; law enforcement; arrest; Texas Public Information Act; Crime Reduction Unit
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The CIA and Interrogation
"Not a formal series, these 12 stories explored the Bush administration's internal struggles over the extreme interrogation methods it embraced after 9/11 in the fact of widespread accusation that it had authorized torture."
Tags: Bush; government; terrorism; interrogation; torture; CIA; evidence; Al Qaeda; Justice Department
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Extraordinary Rendition
"The film 'Extraordinary Rendition' explores the truth about CIA rendition and secret detention and sets out to explain not only the extent of US involvement in torture, but also why this program was carried out. It also reveals how rendition continues."
Tags: Egypt; India; CIA; torture; black sites; rendition; Poland; Bisher al Rawi; interrogation
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The War on Terror: Rorschach and Awe
The story revealed, for the first time, two psychologists who were "the architects and teachers of the coercive interrogation methods first used at the CIA's black sites, which then spread to Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.â€
Tags: war on terror; Abu Ghraib; CIA; abuse; interrogations; psychologists;
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Inside the Secret World of CIA and the Intelligence Community
A nine-month series that examines the actions and work of the CIA and other American intelligence agencies. From NSA monitoring domestic Internet traffic, to interrogation techniques, the series "provided the public with a rare inside look at how the Bush administration is conducting its war on terrorism."
Tags: terrorism; intelligence; CIA; NSA; FBI; Department of Justice; counterterrorism; Iraq; waterboarding; AlQaeda
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Inside Gitmo
"Speaking publicly for the first time, senior U.S. law enforcement investigators say they waged a long but futile battle inside the Pentagon to stop coercive and degrading treatment of detainees by intelligence interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."
Tags: Abu Ghraib; Navy; Army; military; prisoner; terrorism; hijack; Mohammed al-Qahtani; Saudi Arabia; Alberto R. Gonzales; interrogation; torture; Guantanamo