Torture Photos

The Failure of the Federalist, No. 10

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Secrecy, War Crimes, Supreme Court, Foia, Congress, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Torture Photos, National Security, Accountability, Barack Obama, Torture, Politics News

Will President Obama serve as the beacon of hope in government that he pretended to be throughout last year's campaign, or did he merely pander to the public in order to pursue his personal ambitions?

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Robert Gates Bars Release Of Torture Photos

Mother Jones | Nick Baumann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Freedom of Information Act, Joe Lieberman, Foia, Torture Photos, Robert Gates, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has used powers granted to him by a controversial new law to block the court-ordered release of numerous photos of deta...

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When Principle and the Practical Conflict, Which Should Prevail?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Excluding Abortion Coverage, Guantanamo Closing, Health Care Debate, Torture Indictments, Torture Photos, Terrorist Trials, Politics News

When it comes to releasing photos of torture, closing Guantanamo and excluding abortion coverage from health care legislation, principle comes into direct conflict with what is practical.

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Obama's Second Hundred Days

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Supreme Court, Latina, Sessions, Burris, Empathy, A Tale of Two Cities, Al Franken, Reform, Dickens, Sarah Palin, Second 100 Days, Muslim, Latino, Sotomayor, Health Care, Analog Television, Birthers, Age of Foolishness, Budget, Democrat, Congress, Sanford, Democrats, Barack Obama, Transparency, Rahm Emanuel, First Hundred Days, Health, Sonia Sotomayor, Credit Card, Souter, Healthcare, Senate, Polls, Mark Sanford, Cap and Trade, Gates, President Obama, Cia, Speech, Second Hundred Days, Jeff Sessions, David Souter, Flu, Obama, Democratic, Iraq, Media, Scotus, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, Television, Iran, Gay Rights, Nuclear Weapons, Baucus, Russia, Beer Summit, Arlen Specter, Credit Card Reform, House, Specter, Photo Op, Msm, Beer, Franken, Worst of Times, Charles Dickens, Roland Burris, Gay, Mainstream Media, Waterloo, Best of Times, First 100 Days, Torture Photos, Chris Weigant, Palin, Cairo, Max Baucus, Bipartisanship, Torture, Politics News

Our look back at Obama's second 100 days will begin with a short overview, and then move on to the categories: "the best of times," "the worst of times," and "the age of (media) foolishness."

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Former Gitmo Detainee Launches Legal Fight To Stop US From Destroying Alleged Torture Photos

Guardian | Richard Norton-Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo, Binyam Mohamed, Torture Photos, Gitmo Detainees, Gitmo, Guantanamo Detainees, Cuba, World News

Former Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal attempt to prevent the US courts from destroying crucial evidence that he says...

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Lieberman, Graham Threaten To Shut Down Senate Over Detainee Photos

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interrogation Photos, Pentagon, Guantanamo Bay, Torture Photos, Detainee Photos, Joseph Lieberman, Detainee Photographs, Photo Records, Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman, Lindsey Graham, Iraq, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) lambasted transparency advocates at a press conference Tuesday, when they renewed their p...

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House Dems Want Hearings On Detainee Photos Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Interrogation Photos, Ben Nelson, Torture Photos, Detainee Photos, Joseph Lieberman, Barney Frank, Foia, Joe Lieberman, Lindsey Graham, Troop Supplement, Lieberman-Graham, Politics News

House Democrats are insisting on hearings before they even consider signing onto the Senate's move to suppress detainee photographs, House Financial S...

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A Chance for Liberals to Break Their Silence

Tom Hayden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: MoveOn.Org, Cia, Torture Photos, Obama Torture, Censorship, Torture, Politics News

Silence in the face of the censorship means collaborating in the cover-up of torture.

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Lieberman, Graham Seek To Block Torture Photos At All Costs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interrogation Photos, House, Torture Photos, Detainee Photos, Foia, War Supplemental, Freedom of Information Act, Joe Lieberman, Senator Joseph Lieberman, Lindsey Graham, Senator Lindsey Graham, Politics News

With the war supplemental under fire from some unlikely allies in the House, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened Mond...

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When it Comes to Torture, No One is Above the Law

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Torture Photos, Seymour Hersh, Antonio Taguba, President Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Rule of Law, Politics News

American law is clear as to what constitutes torture. Those within the Bush administration who sanctioned torture, deliberately and unapologetically violated U.S. law and must be held responsible.

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Why No Investigation?

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Administration, Torture Photos, Antonio Taguba, Torture, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Why are the Congressional leadership of both parties bizarrely silent now, when the American people are demanding an investigation and prosecution of the crimes represented in the abuse photos?

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Jimmy Carter Disagrees With Obama Decision To Block Detainee Photos

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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In an interview with CNN's Campbell Brown, former president Jimmy Carter said he disagreed with President Obama's decision to oppose the release of ph...

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Taguba Denies Telegraph 'Rape Photos' Story, White House Urges Coverage

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rape Photos, White House Important, Torture Photos, Antonio Taguba, Robert Gibbs, Abuse Photos, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

White House reporters received an unusual email on Saturday, with a subject line stating, "Important Please Read: From White House Press Secretary Rob...

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British Newspaper's Account Of Explicit Abu Ghraib Photos Corroborated

The Daily Beast | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taguba, Torture Photos, President Barack Obama, Obama, Military Torture, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News

The Pentagon is denying the facts: Photographs of Abu Ghraib torture are even more sexually explicit than first reported, including rape and sodomy, w...

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Releasing All the Torture Photos Immediately Will Probably Save American Lives

Martin Garbus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Warwire, Iraq, Torture Photos, Antonio Taguba, Torture, World News

War does terrible things to all soldiers and all civilians. The American people should know the price our soldiers and the people we fight with pay.

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Abuse Photos Include Images Of Rape And Sexual Assault: Report

Posted 05.25.2011

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The Pentagon on Thursday denied the Daily Telegraph report that photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse, whose release U.S. President Obama wants to block...

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Obama and the Left

Gara LaMarche | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Accomplishments, Obama Speech, Torture Photos, Obama Achievements, Guantanamo, Defending Obama, Obama and the Left, Barack Obama, Obama Liberal, Politics News

Obama has genuine real-world issues to balance, and I have no reason to believe he has not arrived at these few controversial decisions genuinely and in a typically thoughtful and engaged manner.

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Obama is Right Not to Trust Us: All the Torture Photos Should Be Immediately Released

Martin Garbus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Torture, Torture Photos, Torture, Politics News

Our failure to show we will stop the torture, in every possible way, is a fatal mistake that probably will lead to more Americans being mistreated.

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Yes We Are Them and They Are Us

Roderick Spencer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Morality, Obama, Clinton, Power, Redemption, Cheney, Abu Ghraib, Torture Photos, World News

Until both sides have the courage to recognize themselves in each other, and in the torture pictures, debate is useless. People on the Left are just as capable of rationalizing cruelty as people on the Right.

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A War on Terror by Any Other Name

John Cusack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Torture Photos, Torture Photos, War, Detainee Abuse, Abuse Photos, War on Terror, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

What is most disturbing about the refusal to release the abuse photos is the broader pattern into which it fits -- a pattern of decisions that effectively preserve the framework of Bush's War on Terror.

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Obama Really Had No Choice on Torture Pictures

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Army, Torture Photos, Cia, Bush, National Security, Iraqi Prisoners, Terrorism, Interrogation, President Obama, Gop, Military Preparedness, John McCain, Politics News

Obama's decision was based on a recognition that he's a young, untested, and perceived liberal Democrat, and therefore widely suspected as weak on national security and military toughness.

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Why Obama Must Truly Hate Bush

Steve Benen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Administration, CIA Interrogations, Bush Administration Torture, Obama Torture Photos, Torture Photos, Obama Torture Prosecutions, Obama Torture Memos, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogations, Obama Torture, Torture, Politics News

It's a real shame Bush and Cheney screwed up so spectacularly, and ignored the law so systematically, that it's interfering with Obama's desire to govern. But Obama signed up for this gig.

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A Hollow and Horrible Equivocation

John Cusack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Obama Torture Photos, Celebrities Talk Politics, John Cusack Torture, CIA Torture, John Cusack, Obama Torture, Torture Pictures, John Cusack Waterboarding, Bush Administration Torture, Torture Photos, Enhanced Interrogations, Waterboarding, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

This is not an issue of partisan politics. It's a police matter... the investigation of a crime scene in which many more of us are complicit than is comfortable to recognize.

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Obama to Offer Blindfolds and Ear Plugs to All Americans

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Foia, Humor, Guantanamo Detainees, President Obama, Guantanamo, Freedom of Information Act, Cheney Torture Policy, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Torture Photos, Satire, Political Humor, Obama Torture Prosecutions, Political Satire, ACLU Torture, Torture, Politics News

Until we take off our blindfolds, until we truly hold accountable those who authorized these heinous acts, we will continue to endanger not only ourselves, but our troops.

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To Disclose Or Not Disclose: Obama's Decision On Detainee Photos Analyzed

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Detainee Photos, Obama Delays Torture Photo Release, Politics News, Detainee Photos, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama Torture Photos, Obama Delays Torture Photos, Obeama Torture, Torture Photos, Eat the Press, Politics News

In case you were wondering, I am of the opinion that President Barack Obama's decision to not release those detainee abuse photos is a mistake. The d...

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