Bush Administration Torture

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"Golden Shield" Doesn't Cover Condi's Torture Role

Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon, Bush Administration Torture, Jay Bybee, Condoleezza Rice, John Yoo, Beth El Synagogue, CIA Torture, Robert Delahunty, Torture Memos, Torture, Golden Shield, Politics News

It was Condoleezza Rice who verbally approved the CIA's request to subject the first alleged al-Qaeda terrorist to waterboarding in July 2002.

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What Obama Is Up Against

Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Central Intelligence Agency, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Military Industrial Complex, Harry Truman, President Obama, George W. Bush, Obama, Bob Woodward, Bush Administration Torture, Robert Gates, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, National Security, Gerald Ford, Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Oversight, Fdr, Hamid Karzai, Bill Clinton, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Dwight Eisenhower, Cia, Military Spending, Stanley McChrystal, Jimmy Carter, Prescott Bush, Allen Dulles, Lyndon Johnson, Iraq, Torture, Politics News

We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.

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Patriot Act: Congress Shouldn't Rush to Judgment (Again)

Sen. Ron Wyden | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Patriot Act, Ron Wyden, Bush Administration Torture, Obama National Security, National Security, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Striking a balance between protecting Americans' security and protecting American rights and freedoms is not always easy, but members of Congress have an obligation to try -- as well as a new opportunity.

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Torture Accountability at Last - for Peru

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Torture Investigation, Peru, Corporations, Monterrico Metals, Guantanamo, Bush Torture, Torture Memos, Eric Holder, Bush Torture Memos, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

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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Forever: A Letter to Obama

Ariel Dorfman | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chile, Human Rights, Torture, CIA Torture, Bush Administration Torture, Barack Obama, Politics News

Amnesty USA asked me to write a letter to Obama asking him to prosecute all those responsible for torturing in the name of the USA during the previous administration. This is the letter I sent to him

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My Testimony on 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques'

Ali Faisal Al-Lami | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Ahmad Chalabi, Bush Administration Torture, Saddam Hussein, David Petraeus, Paul Bremer, Enhanced Interrogations, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Iraq Contractors, Iraq Torture, Iraq, General Petraeus, Chalabi, Torture, World News

In 2008, I was kidnapped from Baghdad International Airport by American civilians with no known affiliation, and was blindfolded and taken to a facility where I was initially interrogated in a hostile way.

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Spanish Judge Resumes Torture Case Against Six Senior Bush Lawyers

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Douglas Feith, Philippe Sands, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Spain, Bush Prosecutions, David Addington, John Yoo, Justice Department, Eric Holder, World News, Office of Legal Counsel, Politics News, Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon, Bush Administration Torture, Jay Bybee, Sami El-Leithi, Jamil El-Banna, Omar Deghayes, Guantanamo Bay, Breaking Politics News, William J. Haynes II, Alberto Gonzales, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

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

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The Tangled Roots of the Terror Psychology: J. Robert Lennon's Novel "Castle"

Anis Shivani | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fascism, Bush Administration Torture, Terrorism, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Torture, Castle, J. Robert Lennon, War on Terror, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Lennon's unusual, very ambitious novel brings us closer to the terror protagonist than any post-9/11 novel yet.

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Torture Rules: How Much Pain and Suffering Works for You?

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Michael Wolff, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Torture, Politics News

So what is our policy on torture? What's allowed?

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An Example to All the World

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Assassination, Bush Administration Torture, Democracy, Death Threats, Warrantless Surveillance, Pakistan, Torture, World News

I entered my cab and began a conversation with my driver, a middle aged man of my vintage who informed me he was of Pakistani descent.

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Fleischer: Torture Investigation "Disgusting;" Nadler: It's Too Limited

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prosecutor Fleischer, Jerry Nadler, Nadler Torture Investigation, Ari Fleischer, Eric Holder, Fleischer Torture Investigation, Bush Administration Torture, Special Prosecutor, Politics News

Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to launch a limited investigation of Bush-era interrogations of terror suspects has sparked intense criticism ...

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Interrupting Unfriendly Persuasion

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

When persuasion is used without regard for the other person, when it becomes sadistic and reckless endangerment, it is what we have come to know as torture.

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Holding Holder's Feet to the Fire

Nan Aron | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Eric Holder Attorney General, Guantanamo Torture, CIA Torture, Bush Torture, Obama Torture, Eric Holder, Torture Memos, Bush Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

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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Cheney Gets Blamed

Jeff Danziger | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

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The "Truthiness" Dilemma

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

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What Nancy Pelosi knew and when she knew it hardly stems the flood of foreclosures, and whether she knew and failed to complain doesn't quite equate with directly ordering torture.

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Congressman Ron Paul Talks Foreign Policy: New Face, Same Policy

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Congressman Ron Paul: I think Obama is purely political. I think he has backed down on what he said.

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Petraeus Says U.S. Violated Geneva Conventions - What Will Cheney and Rush Say?

Jon Soltz | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Politics, Bush Administration Torture, Rush Limbaugh, General David Petraeus, Breaking Politics News, General Petraeus, Votevets, Torture Memos, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

I was stunned when Gen. Petraeus admitted today that the United States has violated the Geneva Conventions.

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World Exclusive! Bush Admits Ordering Torture!

Martin Lewis | Posted 06.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: A Few Bad Men, Bush Administration Torture, Waterboarding, Frost/Nixon, Torture, George W. Bush, Comedy News

I've just got back from visiting George W. Bush. We had a very nice chat for the most part. But he felt it was important to clear the air on the topic of waterboarding.

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Second Thoughts on Cheney Indictment: Pardon Him ... And Others Too

Lanny Davis | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Congress, Bush Administration Torture, Jane Harman, Cia Waterboarding, Richard Nixon, Guantanamo Torture, Gop, Obama Administration, Cheney Torture, Waterboarding, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Obama should pardon not only Mr. Cheney, but everyone else in the prior administration who approved or knew about the illegal water-boarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques.

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Picking on Pelosi

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

For all of the suspicion and projection upon her, Speaker Pelosi is really like a mom making her kids behave politely at a fancy restaurant.

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Obama and Cheney: Dueling in Different Universes

Jim Selman | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Enhanced Interrogrations, National Security, American Values, Cheney, Bush Administration Torture, War on Terror, Cheney Torture, Politics News

When people become polarized, there is no common ground from which to build a common future.

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Siegelman's First Trial Judge Blasts U.S. Prosecutors, Seeks Probe of 'Unfounded' Charges

Andrew Kreig | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Karl Rove, U.S. Attorney Firings, Don Siegelman, Eric Holder, Mark Fuller, Richard Scrushy, Politics News

One of the most experienced federal judges in recent Alabama history is denouncing the U.S. Justice Department prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.

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Dick Cheney Will Protect You, and Liberals Want Your First Born

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, Obama, Saddam, Al Qaeda, Gitmo, Torture, Cheney, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Torture, Gop, Cheney Torture, Politics News

Did Cheney show a lack of commitment to national security by limiting the interrogation techniques to waterboarding?

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Prairie Home Torture Companion

Rory O'Connor | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Media News, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Torture, Garrison Keillor, Bush Administration Torture, Democratic Congress, Crime, Terror-Criminal-Prosecution, CIA Torture, Politics News

Keillor called for a fair and thorough congressional investigation that would "lay the whole wretched business out on the public record".

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Cheney Revealed As A Terminator During Latest Speech

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 06.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Christian Bale Terminator Salvation, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Humor, Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dick Cheney, American Enterprise Institute, Christian Bale, Aei, The Terminator, Bush Administration Torture, Terminator Salvation, Vice President Dick Cheney, Satire, Enhanced Interrogations, Political Satire, Torture, Comedy News

As you will see, during Cheney's speech, a malfunction of some sort caused a small explosion which caused the Cheney-Borg's flesh-like covering to melt, thus revealing the endoskeleton hidden beneath.

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