Bush Torture Memos

All I Want for Christmas Is My Civil Liberties!

Coleen Rowley | Posted 02.23.2012

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What's the worst that could happen as a result of the congressional rubberstamp broadening the war and allowing indefinite military detention of American citizens as "enemy combatants"?

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Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Deserve Compensation

Gabor Rona | Posted 07.13.2011

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Are Abu Ghraib torture victims entitled to compensation? Not one victim of official cruelty in U.S. custody has had access to an enforceable, effective remedy because the government has argued that allowing these claims to be heard would endanger national security.

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Damn Wrong: Bush Admission on Torture Should Draw Special Prosecutor

Elizabeth Holtzman | Posted 05.25.2011

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In his new book, George Bush admits to having approved waterboarding. This admission has created a difficult dilemma for the current administration. Torture is a federal crime punishable by up to twenty years in prison.

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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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Unhappy Anniversary: Eight Years of Continuing Lawlessness

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Defense Department now obstructs justice by suppressing evidence of its own criminal actions. This sordid history indicates the perverse depths to which our nation has unfortunately fallen.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Anything Less Than Absolute Moral Clarity from Democrats Will Enshrine Bush's Abuses

Peter Daou | Posted 05.25.2011

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Failing to make a clean break from the Bush years will deprive America of the one thing it needs most: an affirmation of the rule of law and the consequent reclaiming of moral authority.

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IG Report: Waterboarding Was Neither "Efficacious Or Medically Safe"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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A CIA inspector general's report from May 2004 that is set to be declassified by the Obama White House will almost certainly disprove claims that wate...

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Khalid Sheik Mohammed: "I Gave A Lot Of False Information" To Make Torture Stop

Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Bush torture memos pale in comparison to the leaked report issued by the Red Cross following two rounds of private interviews with the 14 "high value detainees" held at Guantanamo Bay.

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Dick Cheney: A Life Pattern of Sabotaging the Security of the United States

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cheney's argument that he is just trying to protect America does not wash. He has a scurrilous life pattern of providing aid-and-comfort to enemies of the United States. Here are 4 examples.

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Bush Torture Memos Released By Obama: See The Complete Documents

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

As part of an ongoing court case, the Department of Justice released on Thursday memos issued by the Office of Legal Counsel between 2002 and 2005, de...

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Torture Images From Set Of Standard Operating Procedure Retell Story Of Abu Ghraib

Huffington Post Contributors | Nubar Alexanian and Katharine Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

Photographs by Nubar Alexanian Text by Katharine Thomas One of President Obama's first executive decisions in office was to prohibit the use of inte...

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Torture Memo Authors May Avoid Professional Sanctions

Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Efforts to impose professional sanctions on Bush administration lawyers who drafted memos supporting harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects face s...

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'Enhanced Interrogation' Techniques Called Out As Torture By Fox News Legal Analyst

Fox News | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have read the 175 pages of legal memoranda ("the memos") that the Department of Justice (DoJ) released last week. They consist of letters written by...

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Why Congress Must Hold Hearings

Felton Newell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Congress must fully investigate to answer the myriad of outstanding questions regarding the Bush terror program.

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Jay Bybee Stands By Bush Torture Memos: No Regrets

New York Times | NEIL A. LEWIS | Posted 05.25.2011

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Judge Jay S. Bybee broke his silence on Tuesday and defended the conclusions of legal memorandums he had signed as a Bush administration lawyer that a...

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Crime and Crime Again

Hart Bochner | Posted 05.25.2011

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It will become its own kind of crime if Obama does not set precedent at such a crucial juncture and pursue justice against the Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz rat pack.

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Waterboarding Sean Hannity

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

Sean Hannity's offer to undergo waterboarding for charity is almost too good to refuse.

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David Corn: Special Prosecutor's Job Is Not To Expose Wrongdoing

Mother Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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The other day I ran into a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, and this person noted that he fancied the idea of appointing a special p...

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