Bush Administration Torture

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Why the War Crimes?

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Ashcroft, Abu-Zubaydah, Richard Clarke, Dick Cheney, Torture, Bush Administration Torture, Ron Suskind, Dick Cheney Torture, Afghanistan, Politics News

The reporting that Abu Zubaydah wasn't the feared number 3 of Al-Qaeda, was -- or should be -- the last step in removing the scales from the eyes of all but the Cheney retainers.

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Bush's Tortured Legacy

James Zogby | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

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Despite Cheney's stubborn insistence that information obtained from tortured detainees stopped "a great many" terrorist attacks, he will present no evidence to back up that assertion.

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Author Of Bush Torture Memos Regrets Style, Not Content

The Washington Independent | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

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In an interview yesterday with the Orange County Register, picked up by Jason Leopold at The Public Record, John Yoo says he doesn't regret the substa...

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Basic Algebra: What Will the Verdict Be?

John Cusack | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

Try them, and let a jury decide. We know ours is not a nation of cowards. What will our leaders do?

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Almost is Not Enough

Jack Healey | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: South Africa, Aung San Suu Kyi, Bush Administration Torture, Burma, Criminal Justice System, Argentina, Chile, National League for Democracy, Rwanda, Torture, Politics News

As we move into the new year, with a new administration and a new outlook on the world, let us work toward "no on torture" both at home and around the world.

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Cheney: Chief of Churls

John Seery | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, CIA Interrogations, Bush Administration Torture, Carl Schmitt, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo, Enhanced Interrogations, Cheney Torture, Hobbes, Taxi to the Dark Side, Machiavelli, Dick Cheney, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News

It's becoming clearer and clearer that official acts of cruelty had little to do, either in intent or effect, with enhancing national security or producing reliable intelligence.

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The Beginning of the End?

Gabriel London | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mental Illness, Prison, Bush Administration Torture, Mental Health, California, Obama Torture, Prisoners, Torture, Politics News

With prisons running at just under double capacity for the last decade, judges have ruled that California has been unable to meet the health and mental care needs of its whopping 157,000 inmates.

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A Truth Commission to Investigate Bush-Cheney Administration Abuses

Sen. Patrick Leahy | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

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The Huffington Post community has played a vital role pursuing, demanding, and exposing the Bush-Cheney administration's numerous abuses. But there's still more we don't know, and more we must uncover.

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Hold the Intelligence Community Accountable

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Congress, Intelligence, Bush Administration Torture, Patrick Leahy, Politics News

It's time for Congress to hold the intelligence community accountable and Senator Leahy may be offering just the means to accomplish that task.

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Who's Running Guantanamo?

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

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On January 20, the answer to that question seemed obvious. However, on January 29, the Commissions' recently appointed chief judge provided the first challenge to the president's plans.

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Cheney Sets the Trap

Rick Horowitz | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

You'd think that the at-long-last-former Vice President of the US might take his eight years of power and his 13 points of public approval and slink off to one of those undisclosed locations he liked so much.

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Officials: Obama Will Continue Using Rendition As Counter-Terrorism Tool

Los Angeles Times | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

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The CIA's secret prisons are being shuttered. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually go back to being a win...

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A New Approach to Terrorism

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

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A war on terror which undermines the most basic values of society -- life, liberty, the rule of law -- is not worth waging if we end up creating a society which mirrors the repression we battled in the first place.

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Obama Lawyers Set To Defend Bush 'Torture Memo' Author In Court

Politico | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

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In Democratic legal circles, no attorney has been more pilloried than former Bush Justice Department official John Yoo, chief author of the so-called ...

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Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

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In one of his first acts as president, Obama ordered prosecutors in Guantanamo's Military Commission trials to ask for a four-month stay on all proceedings.

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Bush Hangs on to False Images in Farewell

Jonathan Diamond | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

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When my country is threatened and someone tells me we can stop the threat by torturing people, maybe we ought to think a little bit before acting on our conscience's call to "protect the homeland!"

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Memo to Obama: Moving Forward Doesn't Mean You Can't Also Look Back

Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

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Will Obama's promise to protect and defend the Constitution include an investigation into the assaults on it perpetrated by members of the Bush administration?

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E-Samizdat works!

Dave Belden | Posted 02.12.2009 | Home

Read More: Guantanamo, Obama Administration, Bush Administration Torture, Unitarian Univeralist, Rick Warren Invocation, Protest, Witness Against Torture, 100 Days, Home News

If an MLK led a Selma march today and the media ignored it, as they have ignored so many anti-war and anti-torture protests these last years, would it...

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Maybe, Going Forward, We Should Just Let Bernie Madoff Off?

Jane Hamsher | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Bush Administration Torture, Leon Panetta, Bernie Madoff, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Politics News

I understand it's smart for Obama to hold his cards close on torture and war crimes prosecutions, but the reason that's being given for not pursuing them makes little sense.

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Seven Years of Guantanamo, Seven Years of Torture and Lies

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.11.2009 | World

Seven years later, it should be abundantly clear that none of the defenders of Guantanamo who indulged in hysterical rhetoric had any idea what they were talking about.

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Obama Prompted To Prosecute Bush

New York Times | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Special Prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, George W. Bush, Obama, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

With few exceptions the transition period has been a model of presidential goodwill and cooperation. Apparently, the curious users who have been submi...

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Regarding Panetta: Let's Not Forget About Gates

Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Transition, Department of Defense, Cia, National Security, Cia Director, Jay Rockefeller, Central Intelligence Agency, Dni, Leon Panetta, Dianne Feinstein, Director of National Intelligence, CIA Torture, Leon Panetta Obama, Barack Obama, Feinstein Panetta, Bush Administration Torture, Panetta Torture, Obama Cabinet, Dennis Blair, Obama Appointees, Obama Appointments, Central Intelligence Agency Obama, Torture, Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News

Placing an inexperienced person like Leon Panetta at CIA for his clean hands and "managerial expertise" will cost lives on the day of the next domestic terrorist attack.

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Welcome to George W. Bush Camp

Tina Dupuy | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Economy, George Bush, Bush Administration, Bush Administration Torture, Vice President Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Bush Legacy Project, Bush Legacy, Dick Cheney, Misunderestimated, Politics News

What is this group? It's none other than the George W. Bush Society. Their yearly gala (that happens every six months...'fuzzy math') is a riot!

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The Bush Presidency in Four Words

Bennet Kelley | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics

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The one word Americans use most to describe President Bush is "incompetent." While no compliment, the word fails to convey the condemnation warranted by the last eight years.

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Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet, Defies Prosecution for War Crimes

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

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Why is Cheney so sanguine about admitting he is a war criminal? Because he's confident that either President Bush will preemptively pardon him or President-elect Obama won't prosecute him.

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