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Cheney Torture

Top Former Generals Denounce Cheney For Torture

Miami Herald | By CHARLES C. KRULAK and JOSEPH P. HOAR | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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In the fear that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Americans were told that defeating Al Qaeda would require us to ``take off the gloves.'' As a f...

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Dan Froomkin

Cheney Still Manipulating People -- Now In Public

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

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When he was vice president, Dick Cheney got his way by secretly wielding the instruments of power. Now that he's no longer in government, Cheney is st...

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Sam Stein

Cheney Accuses Obama Of Launching "Intensely Partisan" Torture Investigation

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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Dick Cheney left little on the table during a taped interview Fox News Sunday, accusing the Obama White House pursuing an "intensely partisan" investi...

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Shoot the Kitten

Jonathan Richards | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

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Jonathan Richards

Sheriff Obama doesn't want any trouble, but Dirty Dick Cheney keeps raising the stakes. Are we nearing High Noon? ...

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The "Truthiness" Dilemma

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

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Judge H. Lee Sarokin

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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Cheney Meant Well

Marty Kaplan | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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Marty Kaplan

Criminal law says that facts aren't enough to establish guilt. There also has to be mens rea -- a guilty mind. Here's the best I can do on Cheney's behalf: He meant well and he knew better.

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Jason Linkins

Release of 'Holy Grail' Torture Document To Be Delayed

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

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About a month and half ago, we made note of the way the stars seemed to be aligning for the release of ex-CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's class...

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Thank You, Bill Maher, For Asking Where in the World is Barack Obama and What is He Going To Do About Healthcare?

Anne Dunev | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

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Anne Dunev

Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.

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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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When Will Dick Cheney's Tower of Lies Finally Come Tumbling Down on Him?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

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Arianna Huffington

As recently as two weeks ago, Cheney was still banging the drum about Saddam's "known ties to Mideast terrorists." His ongoing Forget Everything I Ever Told You Tour is historical revisionism at its most despicable.

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

Lanny Davis | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

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Lanny Davis

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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Obama and Cheney: Dueling in Different Universes

Jim Selman | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

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Jim Selman

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

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Land of the Safe and Home of the Cruel

David Bromwich | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics

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David Bromwich

Obama's National Archives speech was one more by Barack Obama that deferred action. It suggested the comprehension of an enormous wrong which it decided only partly to remedy.

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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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Cheney, the CIA and Torture: Asking the Wrong Questions

Eric L. Lewis | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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Eric L. Lewis

Cheney wants to take what is a stark legal and moral issue and turn it into yet another Washington "some argue this; some argue that" controversy, a clever bureaucratic maneuver.

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

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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Jeff Schweitzer

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

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Spock vs. Rambo

Christine Pelosi | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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Christine Pelosi

Watching President Obama and former Vice President Cheney duel on terror suspects: can Spock replace Rambo in the approach to Gitmo?

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Dispatches from the Dark Side

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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Allison Kilkenny

In Cheneyland, the terrorists attack us because of the "values we profess." Cheney's ideology is -- as always -- extremely immature, cruel, and myopic.

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The Cheney Dare: Indict Him for Complicity in Torture

Lanny Davis | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

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Lanny Davis

I think it is time to take Dick Cheney up on his implicit dare and indict him for violating the 1994 federal law against torture.

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The Cheney Doctrine

Will Durst | Posted 06.18.2009 | Comedy

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Will Durst

A National Journal poll of Republican insiders shows 57% of them think he's hurting the party. So pretty much everybody agrees, Dick Cheney speaking on torture is redundant.

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Congressman Jim Moran on Torture and Accountability

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Congressman Moran: Those who are culpable need to be judged by their peers and I think we need to put in place some kinds of structures to ensure that we never repeat our mistakes.

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The Torture Debate Will Be Won or Lost on National Security, not Morality or Legality

Frankie Sturm | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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Frankie Sturm

We don't have to leave morals or laws on the sideline, but unless we're satisfied with preaching to the choir, national security needs to be the focus of our case against torture.

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How Can You Not Have Bush, Cheney and Gonzales Prosecuted?

Martin Garbus | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

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Martin Garbus

The question is no longer, should you, or can you, prosecute them for authorizing torture. The question is, how can we say we live under a system of law and not have them prosecuted.

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Who Do You Despise More, Dick or Liz?

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

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Jacob Heilbrunn

The Cheneys are seeking to lay the groundwork for a "Who Lost America?" debate should there be another terrorist attack during the Obama presidency.

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Jason Linkins

White House Preparing To Release "Holy Grail" Torture Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

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Greg Sargent's done an exceptional job plumbing this Washington Post piece from R. Jeffrey Smith, entitled "Hill Panel Reviewing CIA Tactics." Look a...

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