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Secrecy Sacrificing National Security

Shahid Buttar | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Secrecy, Civil Liberties, First Amendment, Government Secrecy, Warrantless Surveillance, Rule of Law, Surveillance, Fbi, Democracy, Racial Profiling, Torture, FBI Surveillance, Nsa, Guantanamo Detainees, Michael Mukasey, Dianne Feinstein, Guantanamo, Cointelpro, Abu Ghraib, American Muslims, Guantanamo Bay, Fisa, Constitution, China, Terrorist Surveillance Program, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Our nation's most notorious criminals violate our most fundamental laws and remain not only free, but actively engaged in influencing our national security policies.

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Jeff Muskus

Lieberman, Graham Threaten To Shut Down Senate Over Detainee Photos

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

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

John W. Whitehead | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

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

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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In Sri Lanka: Explaining the Tamil Tigers

Jim Luce | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: K.P., Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Bank of Tamileelam, Ban Ki-Moo, Abu Sayyaf Group, Sri Lanka, Palestine Liberation Organization, London, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan Air Force, Suicide Bombing, “Little Brown Brothers”, Racism, Drug Trafficking, The U.N. Security Council, Ethnic Cleansing, New York, Geneva, Jemaah Islamiya, Colombo, P.L.O., India, Times of India, Fight Against Terrorism, Gunrunning., LTTE Sea Tigers, Empty Nest Syndrome, Political Assassination, Tamil Tigers, Human Smuggling, Tamil Diaspora, Ltte, Teddy Roosevelt, Toronto, Switzerland, Washington, Jaffna, Osama Bin Laden, Jane's Information Group, United Nations, Norway, Tamil Nadu, Milf, Black Tigers, Guantanamo Bay, Child Soldiers, Refugee Status, Terrorist Organization, European Union, F.B.I., Amin Awad, Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden, Abu Ghraib, Tsunami, Rajiv Gandhi, Pol Pot, Oslo, Sri Lankan Parliament, Afghanistan, Human Rights Abuse, Sea Piracy, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Asg, Tamil-Canadians, World News
Jim Luce

The Sri Lankan government has battled the Tamil Tigers on two fronts for almost three decades: on the battlefield and in the arena of world opinion. No one thought they could win militarily, but they did.

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Cheney, Selling Cheney

Rick Horowitz | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cheney and Obama Administration, Bush Administration, George Tenet, Richard Clarke, Cheney and Torture, Cheney Book Deal, Richard Cheney, Abu Ghraib, Cheney and Interrogation, Dick Cheney, Obama Administration, Cheney Memoirs, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

You can't turn on your TV these days without seeing the former veep with his latest account of what they did back when they were in charge, why they did it and how wonderfully it all worked. What's up with that?

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See No Evil

Robert Koehler | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stress, Military Suicides, Rape, Steven Green, War, Iraq, Dehumanization, Media, Abu Ghraib, Kentucky, Politics News
Robert Koehler

The heavily armed, trained killer was "under stress" when he raped, then murdered a 14-year-old girl and tried to burn her body, after having murdered her parents and 7-year-old sister.

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History Matters: Remembering Tiananmen (and Abu Ghraib)

Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: History, Education, Human Rights, Tiananmen Square Anniversary, China, Tiananmen Square, Abu Ghraib, Tiananmen 20th Anniversary, 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square, World News
Leah Anthony Libresco

In twenty years, will the iconic image of Tiananmen Square be in Chinese textbooks? Will the iconic image of Abu Ghraib be in ours?

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What Should President Obama Tell the Muslim World in Cairo?

Omid Memarian | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: President Mubarak, Egypt, The Muslim World, Cairo, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Obama Mideast Trip, World News
Omid Memarian

What should the President say, and do, in Cairo to make the best of his trip?

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Obama, Cairo and Institutionalizing Change

Andrew Belonsky | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Egypt, Torture, Cairo, Politics, George W. Bush, Carl Levin, Business, Shafik Gabr, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Obama Mideast Trip, Politics News
Andrew Belonsky

Egypt's government has worked at suppressing political opposition, employed torturous interrogation tactics and has a less-than-favorable human rights record.

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Why No Investigation?

Naomi Wolf | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

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

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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General Ricardo Sanchez Calls for War Crimes Truth Commission - VIDEO UPDATE

Jack Hidary | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, General Sanchez, Interrogation, Ron Suskind, Truth Commission, Rachel Maddow, Enhanced Interrogations, Center for Constituional Rights, Abu Graib, Torture, One Percent Solution, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Jack Hidary

Last night, General Ricardo Sanchez, the former commander of all coalition forces in Iraq, became the first senior military officer from the Iraqi theater to call for a truth commission.

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President Obama's "Spock" Rationale On Iraq War Investigation Untenable

Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Torture, Abu Ghraib, President Obama, Patrick Leahy, Robert Gibbs, Politics News
Gail Vida Hamburg

The President's refusal to investigate the Bush administration's policies and actions relating to the Iraq War is the embodiment of Vulcan logic -- free from messy human emotions and moral obligation.

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

The Huffington Post | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

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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Retired U.S. General Says British Paper Misquoted Him On Still-Secret Abuse Photos

Salon | Mark Benjamin | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Antonio Taguba, Abu Ghraib Photos, Abu Ghraib, World News

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba denied reports that he has seen the prisoner-abuse photos that President Obama is fighting to keep secret, in an...

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Ex-Interrogators Are Mad as Hell About Torture, and They're Not Gonna Take Cheney Anymore

ZP Heller | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moveon, Tom Hayden, Abuse, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo, Matthew Alexander, Iraq, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Detainees, Politics News
ZP Heller

More and more, former interrogators and counterinsurgency experts are using Dick Cheney's recent ubiquity to expose his iniquity regarding the torture and abuse of detainees.

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British Newspaper's Account Of Explicit Abu Ghraib Photos Corroborated

The Daily Beast | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

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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Abu Ghraib Rape Photos: Pentagon Denies Report

Reuters | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

Read More: Rape Photos, Rape, Iraq Rape Photos, War Wire, Telegraph Rape Photos, Abu Ghraib Rape Photos, Abu Ghraib, Pentagon Rape Photos, Abu Ghraib Rape, Abu Ghraib Rape Pictures, Abu Ghraib Photos, Abu Ghraib Deny Rape Photos, Ghraib Rape, Abu Graib Rape, Rape Abu Ghraib, Iraqi Rape Photos, Abu Ghraib Rapes, Abu Ghraib Rape Photo, Abu Ghraib Photos Rape, World News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday denied a British newspaper report that photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse, whose release U.S. Preside...

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The Abu Ghraib Photos Surface -- Slowly but Surely

Michael Wolff | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Daily Telegraph, Photos, Michael Wolff, Troops, Antonio Taguba, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Michael Wolff

These photographs can't and won't be kept secret. The British press has become one of the most effective back doors to the American media.

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Abuse Photos Include Images Of Rape And Sexual Assault: Report

Posted 06.27.2009 | World

Read More: Abu Ghraib Photos, Torture Photos, Abuse Photos, Abu Ghraib Abuse Photos, Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib Rape, Abu Ghraib Rape Photos, Abu Ghraib Abuse Photos 'Show Rape', Abu Ghraib Rape Pictures, Abu Ghraib Rape Photo, Abu Ghraib Photos Rape, Rape Abu Ghraib, Abu Graib, Rape Images, World News

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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Former Interrogator Slams Cheney Over Torture Policy

ZP Heller | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Barack Obama, Matthew Alexander, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Torture, Video, Politics News
ZP Heller

According to Matthew Alexander, the torture and abuse conducted at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo became the number one recruiting tool for foreign fighters who attacked coalition forces in Iraq.

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Obama and Transparency: Should He Release the Torture Photos?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, US Supreme Court, Freedom of Information Act, Obama Torture Photos, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Releasing new Abu-Ghraib photos will not aid the cause of justice or increase government transparency.

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Cheney and Torture

Jesse Larner | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

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
Jesse Larner

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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Torture as Literature

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 06.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Corruption, Amnesty International, China, Nicaragua, Nancy Pelosi, North Korea, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Living News
Ashley Rindsberg

The unity, faith, and support for the nation that America experienced after September 11th is giving way to distrust and fragmentation.

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Dick Cheney - The Republican Gift that Keeps Giving

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Global War on Terror, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Republican, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

The Cheney model for the post-vice presidency seems to be to become the party's lead attack dog. It is difficult to fathom why Cheney has chosen to do this, but supporters of Obama should not be ungrateful.

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Jason Linkins

Abu Ghraib Ties To Gitmo Shown By DOJ Memos

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Detainee Abuse, Enhanced Interrogations, Dan Froomkin, Dick Cheney, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Yesterday, in his remarks at the American Enterprise Institute, former Vice President Dick Cheney protested that everyone had Abu Ghraib all wrong! ...

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