Bush Torture

With Bin Laden's Death - Torture Is Still Not The Answer

Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster | Posted 07.05.2011

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Torture debases the persons tortured, as well as the torturers, and it violates the two truths that are common to most people of faith: every human being is created in God's image and we should love our neighbors as ourselves.

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Bush Allegedly Cancels Visit To Switzerland Due To Threat Of Torture Prosecution

Posted 05.25.2011

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GENEVA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President George W. Bush has cancelled a visit to Switzerland, where he was to address a Jewish charity gala, d...

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Donald Rumsfeld Torture Lawsuit Fizzles, Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer trying to revive a torture lawsuit against former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and thre...

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Bush's Waterboarding Admission Prompts Calls For Criminal Probe

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday joined a growing chorus in the human rights community calling for a special prosecutor to...

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Bush Admits He Directly Authorized Use Of Waterboarding

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Damn right." That's what former president George W. Bush told CIA officials when they came to ask him for permission to waterboard alleged 9/11 mast...

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Presidential Powers: Prudence or Perversion? Playing Jeopardy

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011

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If we're playing Jeopardy, and we are, this would be the answer: It's the real no-brainer answer to the legal and ethical questions posed by the ...

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Abu Ghraib Unit To Return To Iraq

AP | DAVID DISHNEAU | Posted 05.25.2011

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HAGERSTOWN, Md. — The Army Reserve unit tarnished by the Abu Ghraib detainee-abuse scandal has been mobilized to return to Iraq in its first dep...

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Jane Mayer Savages Marc Thiessen's Book, 'Courting Disaster,' In New Yorker Review

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mayer's review says Thiessen is "neither a journalist nor a terrorism expert," rather he is a frantic, torture-thrillist PR hack, and the book "has become the unofficial Bible of torture apologists."

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Mock Burial: CIA Torturers Wanted Terror Suspect To Think He Was Being Buried Alive

emptywheel | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

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CIA's torturers asked DOJ to let them use mock burials....

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Dismiss John Yoo Suit, White House Says

The San Francisco Chronicle | Bob Egelko | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration has asked an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former Bush administration attorney John Yoo of authorizing the tort...

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CIA 'Black Sites': Final Status Of The Facilities Remains In The Dark

Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whatever happened to the so-called "black sites," where suspected terrorists were held overseas by the CIA and submitted to harsh interrogations that ...

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Torture Accountability at Last - for Peru

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is not cliche or radical to demand the U.S. hold our own torturers (at all levels) to the same level of accountability as British mining corporations.

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What's the Big Deal?

Jane Smiley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Make no mistake, if we as a nation sweep the Bush crimes, committed both here and abroad, under the rug because we're too lazy or afraid or "poor" to investigate, our criminals will be back with bigger plans.

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Holding Holder's Feet to the Fire

Nan Aron | Posted 05.25.2011

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Attorney General Eric Holder is a man on a seat that is hot and getting ever hotter. But we still don't know if the lawyers who wrote the torture memos will be brought to justice.

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Backward and Forward

Daniel Menaker | Posted 05.25.2011

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With regard to the probably heinous acts committed in terrorist interrogations by the Bush administration, there is no moving forward possible without looking backward first. So do your job, Mr. Holder.

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Breaking the 'Golden Shield'

Martin Garbus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Prosecutions must start against the lawyers who gave legal cover to both Bush officials and the line of command that led to those who performed torture.

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ACLU Sues CIA For Interrogation Documents

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government Thursday to try to prove there is a close link between the White House un...

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Confronting the CIA's Mind Maze

Alfred W. McCoy | Posted 05.25.2011

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In retrospect, it may become more apparent that the real aberration of the Bush years lay not in torture policies per se, but in the president's order that the CIA should operate its own torture prisons.

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Bush Defends Torture: "The Information We Got Saved Lives"

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former President George W. Bush on Thursday repeated Dick Cheney's assertion that their enhanced interrogation program was legal and garnered valuable...

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Torture by Any Other Name

Allen Keller | Posted 05.25.2011

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The recently released memos detailing interrogation methods authorized by the Bush Administration, demonstrate the critical need for an independent and comprehensive investigation.

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Obama Still Opposes Truth Commission On Torture

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Despite calls in Congress for an independent "truth commission" to look into the interrogation policies of President George W. Bush...

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Memory, War, and the Memory of War

Louis Bickford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Extreme violations of human rights in any context, including a war, are too important to forget. We want future generations to remember that we insisted on accountability for them.

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The Phony Debate About Torture

Elizabeth Holtzman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Torture can never be used because our Constitution bans it. There are no exceptions -- not for heinous crimes or ticking bombs.

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Torture as Portrayed through Jenny Holzer's "Protect/Protect"

Joscelyn Jurich | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Protect/Protect" reminds us with ferocious intensity that we desperately need to look backwards in order to assess the present and more carefully determine the future.

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CIA Chief Panetta on Israel and Iran, Drone Strikes in Pakistan, Congress, and Torture

Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earlier this week, the surprising new director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, took a lunch break to talk with the Pacific Council on International Policy.

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