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Rogue's Gallery: CNN's Ideologically Rigid, Scandal-Tainted, Ethics-Investigation-Haunted GOP Debate 'Panel'

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 01.27.2012

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, David Addington, Paul Wolfowitz, Fred Kagan, Chris Hayes, Ed Meese, Politics News

David Addington. Paul Wolfowitz. Ed Meese. It's a Rogue's Gallery of government officials gone wild, a motley crew of the short-sighted, the benighted, and the nearly-indicted. Or, as CNN calls them, "experts."

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Is Torture In America's Future As Well As In Our Country's Past?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 09.03.2011

Read More: Jay Bybee, Interrogation, George W. Bush, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, John Yoo, David Addington, Barack Obama, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

The Fourth of July is a joyous celebration of the United States' independence. And yet this country finds itself turning 235 at a morally precarious m...

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Top 7 Underemployed Former Bush Officials

Paul Tullis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Office of Special Plans, Paul Bremer, David Addington, Dirk Kempthorne, Alberto Gonzales, Mms, Politics News

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Unhappy Anniversary: Eight Years of Continuing Lawlessness

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Defense, George W. Bush, CIA Torture, Obama Administration, David Addington, John Yoo, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, John Yoo Torture, John Yoo Memo, Bush Torture Memos, Judge Jay Bybee, CIA UnLawful Human Experimentation, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Human Rights, Nuremberg Trials, Jay Bybee, Cia, Physicians for Human Rights, Enhanced Interrogations, Department of Justice, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

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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"Bomb Power," or How the Atomic Bomb Ended a War, Increased Presidential Power and Eroded the Constitution

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Garry Wills, Iran-Contra, Ronald Reagan, Cia, Secret Security State, Stephen Hoye, Iraq, The Manhattan Project, Dick Cheney, Covert Actions, Iran, Guatemala, Gulf of Tonkin, Cuban Missle Crisis, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Korea, Diem, President Kennedy, Atomic Bomb, Bomb Power, The Justice Dept., Patrice Lumumba, Foundind Fathers, Signing Statements, The Atomic Energy Commission, Congress, Edwin Meese, Democracy, The Shah of Iran, David Addington, Iraq War, Nuclear Weapons, Ike, Cambodia, Presidential Power, President Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, World War II, Unitary Executive, Accountability, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Books News

While the bomb ended World War II, it also started a chain reaction that exploded into America's permanent secret security state -- with emphasis on the word 'permanent.'

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Kouchner's Lament: Misunderstanding the Net

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

The internet today -- despite the occasional bouts of disinformation and invented scandal -- is far more of an effective and immediate marketplace of information than the world for which Bernard Kouchner seems to pine.

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Pressure Mounts on DOJ to Produce Missing E-Mails

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Pressure is growing on the Justice Department to produce supposedly "deleted" e-mails that could reveal whether government lawyers in the Bush administration were instructed to devise legal justifications for torture.

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What We Need To Hear About the Torture Report

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

On Friday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the investigation into the Justice Department memos that authorized the torture of detainees in U.S. custody during the Bush administration.

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Former Guantanamo Prosecutor Loses Job for Criticizing Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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orris Davis, the retired Air Force Colonel who served as the Chief Prosecutor of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo until 2007, has just lost his job for writing an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal.

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Judge Orders Release From Guantanamo of Kuwaiti Who Met Bin Laden

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Following Judge Kollar-Kotelly's ruling, the DOJ did not indicate whether it will appeal the decision, but I sincerely hope that the government follows the judge's advice and repatriates al-Rabia.

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Spanish Judge Resumes Torture Case Against Six Senior Bush Lawyers

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.

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Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Preventive Detention, Mohamed Jawad, David Kris, Department of Defense, War on Terror, Harsh Interrogations, President Obama, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, John Hutson, World News, Dick Cheney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Sen. Carl Levin, Robert Gates, Jeh Johnson, National Security, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, World, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Armed Services Committee, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, House Committee on the Judiciary, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Capt. John Murphy, George Toscas, Federal Court, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Torture, Politics News

Lt. Col. Vandeveld said, "I simply could not in good conscience continue to work for an ad-hoc, hastily created apparatus whose evident resort to expediency and ethical compromise were so contrary to my own."

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Cheney's "Privileged" Interview Already Leaked By Personal Lawyer

Emptywheel | Posted 05.25.2011

You know how Obama's DOJ claims that we can't see Cheney's interview with Patrick Fitzgerald because it's privileged? Well, Dick Cheney's lawyer alrea...

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Cheney and Torture

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abuse, Charles Krauthammer, John Yoo, George W. Bush, Rule of Law, Guantanamo, David Addington, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Abu Ghraib, American Enterprise Institute, Jay Bybee, Constitution, Dan Froomkin, Benjamin Franklin, Torture, Gop, Politics News

Cheney and his ilk don't understand liberty, and they don't understand freedom, what it costs and what it's worth. They are small men and cowards, selling out the rule of law at the first whiff of danger.

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My Message To Obama: Great Speech, But No Military Commissions and No "Preventive Detention"

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Preventive Detention, US Supreme Court, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, David Addington, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Military Commissions, Politics, Guantanamo Uighurs, Bush Administration, Obama Guantanamo, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Breaking Politics News, Waterboarding, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, Politics News

Look at the sentence, "Hold[ing] individuals to keep them from carrying out an act of war," replace "an act of war" with "any crime," and you will realize why the proposed policy is so terrifying.

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We Can't Handle the Lie!

Shannyn Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Jay Bybee, Germany, Waterboarding, Terrorists, Nuremberg Trials, Torture, John Yoo, Guantanamo Torture, Obama, Dick Cheney Torture, Tokyo Tribunals, David Addington, Bruce Springsteen, Dick Cheney, Politics News

If a picture tells a thousand words, the pictures now being held back by Obama, scream volumes. Their testimony demands the light of day much like the men in our containment.

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Guantanamo: A Prison Built On Lies

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is difficult to see how much of the "evidence" against the Gitmo prisoners can be anything other than a tissue of lies extracted through torture, coercion, bribery and exploitation.

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Obama's First 100 Days: A Start On Guantanamo, But Not Enough

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Preventive Detention, Geneva Conventions, Pentagon Guantanamo, War on Terror, Algeria, President Obama, Guantanamo, Taliban, Binyam Mohamed, Omar Khadr, Eric Holder, Habeas Corpus, Obama Executive Orders, Dick Cheney, Politics, Libya, UN Convention Against Torture, Enemy Combatants, Robert Gates, Col. Patrick Parrish, Obama Guantanamo, Saudi Arabia, US Senate, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, Col. James Pohl, Judge Reggie B. Walton, Closing Guantanamo, Pentagon, US Supreme Court, Tunisia, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Neal Katyal, Guantanamo Detainees, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Ayman Batarfi, Justice Department, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Al Qaeda, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Uighurs, Lawrence Wilkerson, Judge Richard Leon, Uzbekistan, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Obama First 100 Days, China, 100 Days, World News

Just Binyam Mohamed and the Yemeni doctor, Ayman Batarfi have been cleared for release. At this rate, of course, it will take decades to close Guantánamo.

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Ten Ways to Bring the Bush Administration's Torture Ten to Justice (and One Way to Avoid)

Michael Kieschnick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Torture Commission, Torture Ten, Jay Bybee, Donald Rumsfeld, CIA Torture, Cheney Torture, John Ashcroft, David Addington, John Yoo, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

It is worrisome that even the most outraged of our leaders inside the beltway are calling only for the familiar bipartisan truth commission to "investigate."

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Commission on Accountability Should Be Part of Our Response to America's Torture Nightmare

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geneva Conventions, David Addington, Torture Policy, Richard Cheney, Torture Accountability, Torture Truth Commisson, Waterboarding, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

We need something like a truth commission in this country to explore how and why America became a nation that embraced torture at the highest levels of political office.

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Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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For the defendants of the use of torture by U.S. forces -- still led by former Vice President Dick Cheney -- this has been a rocky few weeks.

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Follow the Evidence

David Bromwich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Cia, John Yoo, David Addington, Iraq, Torture Memos, Barack Obama, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

The truth about what Bush and Cheney and Addington and Yoo and Cambone and Feith and a handful of others did must be known before it can be judged, and all that can be judged is the content of their actions.

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Spain Investigates What America Should

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Yoo, Convention Against Torture, Universal Jurisdiction, Torture, Douglas Feith, Jay Bybee, Warantless-Wiretap, Bush-Waterboarding, Alberto Gonzalez Torture, Alberto Gonzales Willia Haynes, Bush-Torture, Spain Universal Jurisdiction, Guantanamo, Warantless Wiretapping, David Addington, Water Boarding, Abu Ghraib, War Crimes, Torture Bush Adminstration, Icc, Guantanamo Bay, Slavery, Waterboarding, International Criminal Court, Spain, World News

It is the responsibility of the United States to investigate allegations of torture. The use of torture should be purged from our system, much like we eradicated slavery.

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The Torture Lawyers: Where Are They Now?

Andrew Woods | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Douglas Feith, William Haynes II, Bush Administration Torture, Jay Bybee, Terrorism, Oil, John Yoo, David Addington, Alberto Gonzales, Accountability, News, Torture, Chevron Human Rights, Politics News

William "Jim" Haynes II was hired in 2008 as Chief Corporate Counsel at Chevron Corporate Office in San Ramon, CA. Why would Chevron hire Haynes?

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Britain's Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

There are many unnerving similarities between the Bush administration's policies and those implemented in the U.K., which have caused barely a ripple of protest.

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