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Bush Torture Memos

Torture Accountability at Last - for Peru

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Allison Kilkenny

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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Holding Holder's Feet to the Fire

Nan Aron | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

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Nan Aron

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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Confronting the CIA's Mind Maze

Alfred W. McCoy | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

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Alfred W. McCoy

In retrospect, it may become more apparent that the real aberration of the Bush years lay not in torture policies per se, but in the president's order that the CIA should operate its own torture prisons.

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Torture by Any Other Name

Allen Keller | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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Allen Keller

The recently released memos detailing interrogation methods authorized by the Bush Administration, demonstrate the critical need for an independent and comprehensive investigation.

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Memory, War, and the Memory of War

Louis Bickford | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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Louis Bickford

Extreme violations of human rights in any context, including a war, are too important to forget. We want future generations to remember that we insisted on accountability for them.

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Torture as Portrayed through Jenny Holzer's "Protect/Protect"

Joscelyn Jurich | Posted 06.19.2009 | Style

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Joscelyn Jurich

"Protect/Protect" reminds us with ferocious intensity that we desperately need to look backwards in order to assess the present and more carefully determine the future.

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Anything Less Than Absolute Moral Clarity from Democrats Will Enshrine Bush's Abuses

Peter Daou | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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Peter Daou

Failing to make a clean break from the Bush years will deprive America of the one thing it needs most: an affirmation of the rule of law and the consequent reclaiming of moral authority.

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Dick Cheney: A Life Pattern of Sabotaging the Security of the United States

Paul Abrams | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

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Paul Abrams

Cheney's argument that he is just trying to protect America does not wash. He has a scurrilous life pattern of providing aid-and-comfort to enemies of the United States. Here are 4 examples.

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Sam Stein

IG Report: Waterboarding Was Neither "Efficacious Or Medically Safe"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

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A CIA inspector general's report from May 2004 that is set to be declassified by the Obama White House will almost certainly disprove claims that wate...

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Khalid Sheik Mohammed: "I Gave A Lot Of False Information" To Make Torture Stop

Mark Nickolas | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

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Mark Nickolas

The Bush torture memos pale in comparison to the leaked report issued by the Red Cross following two rounds of private interviews with the 14 "high value detainees" held at Guantanamo Bay.

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Torture Images From Set Of Standard Operating Procedure Retell Story Of Abu Ghraib

Huffington Post Contributors | Nubar Alexanian and Katharine Thomas | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

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Photographs by Nubar Alexanian Text by Katharine Thomas One of President Obama's first executive decisions in office was to prohibit the use of inte...

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Torture Memo Authors May Avoid Professional Sanctions

Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

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Efforts to impose professional sanctions on Bush administration lawyers who drafted memos supporting harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects face s...

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'Enhanced Interrogation' Techniques Called Out As Torture By Fox News Legal Analyst

Fox News | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

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I have read the 175 pages of legal memoranda ("the memos") that the Department of Justice (DoJ) released last week. They consist of letters written by...

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Why Congress Must Hold Hearings

Felton Newell | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

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Felton Newell

Congress must fully investigate to answer the myriad of outstanding questions regarding the Bush terror program.

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Jay Bybee Stands By Bush Torture Memos: No Regrets

New York Times | NEIL A. LEWIS | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

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Judge Jay S. Bybee broke his silence on Tuesday and defended the conclusions of legal memorandums he had signed as a Bush administration lawyer that a...

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Crime and Crime Again

Hart Bochner | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

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Hart Bochner

It will become its own kind of crime if Obama does not set precedent at such a crucial juncture and pursue justice against the Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz rat pack.

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Waterboarding Sean Hannity

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media

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Hoyt Hilsman

Sean Hannity's offer to undergo waterboarding for charity is almost too good to refuse.

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David Corn: Special Prosecutor's Job Is Not To Expose Wrongdoing

Mother Jones | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

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The other day I ran into a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, and this person noted that he fancied the idea of appointing a special p...

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Dickipedia: John Yoo

Dickipedia | Kevin Allocca | Posted 05.28.2009 | Comedy

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John Choon Yoo (born June 10, 1967) is an American attorney, former U.S. Justice Department official, Berkeley law professor, writer of memos, foremos...

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Torture: "It's Perfectly Legal -- But We Don't Do It"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

All of the torturers from the world's worst, most brutal regimes can now rise up and proclaim their solidarity with the United States: "We Are All Americans Now!"

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A Reasonable Observer's Response to the Torture Memos

Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

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Martha St Jean

The Bush torture memos have provided more questions than answers. Where were the "reasonable observers" who should have given dissenting viewpoints based on legal and moral ramifications?

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Torture Memos Spur Intense Debate In Obama Inner Circle

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

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As President Obama met with top advisers on the evening of April 15, he faced one of the sharpest policy divides of his young administration....

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Jay Bybee's Rules at Home: "Be Nice. Don't Hit." Bybee's Rules for the CIA: Torture Prisoners

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

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Jeremy Scahill

Bybee seems to be against corporal punishment at home, but has no problem with slamming prisoners against walls, locking people in boxes and simulating drowning.

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Abu Ghraib Head: Bush Administration Scapegoated Us

CBS | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

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Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who ran Iraq prisons in 2003, including the notorious Abu Ghraib prison was insistent that all orders on interrogat...

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Refuting the Self-Fulfilling Torture Prophecy: A Response to Hayden and Mukasey

Rep. Jan Schakowsky | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Jan Schakowsky

Not torturing prisoners is one of our nation's proudest traditions, one of the features that define us. Yet, the men who served as CIA Director and Attorney General still believe in these techniques.

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