Anti-torture Demonstrators Arrested At Dick Cheney’s Home

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Two anti-torture/war protesters from the group called Code Pink were arrested at the home of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s home in McLean, Virginia. The two were identified as Washington, DC residents, Tighe Barry, 57, and Eve Tataz, 83. Both were arrested on trespassing charges and disorderly conduct for refusing to leave Cheney’s property, both misdemeanor charges.

“20 demonstrators, some in orange prison jumpsuits, walked onto his property to mark the 14th anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo Bay prison.

Another Code Pink group demonstrated without incident outside the home of CIA Director John Brennan, also in the Washington, D.C. suburb of McLean, as part of its “Guantanamo Anniversary Weekend Torturers Tour.”

A U.S. Senate report last month said the CIA misled the White House and public about its torture of detainees after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and acted more brutally and pervasively than it acknowledged.

Cheney has defended the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects in the aftermath of al Qaeda’s hijacked plane attacks, which killed more than 3,000 people in New York and Washington.

The prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was opened in January 2002 to house suspected militants and still holds 127 detainees, despite President Barack Obama’s pledge to close the facility. Obama continues to face obstacles posed by Congress to the goal of emptying the prison before he leaves office, not least of which is a ban on transfer of prisoners to the U.S. mainland.”

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/10/us-usa-guantanamo-protesters-idUSKBN0KJ0O320150110

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