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Dick Cheney Torture

Law & Order Tackles Accountability for Torture. Will We Have It in Real Life?

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Anthony D. Romero

Jack McCoy isn't afraid to hold members of the Bush administration accountable for torture. Now the question is, in real life, will Attorney General Holder rise to the occasion?

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Hypocrisy Alert: Cheney Relies on the Objectivity of the Justice Department to Defend Torture

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

The gall of Cheney's statements is that he was a key part of the administration that deconstructed the objectivity of the Justice Department, which he now relies on to defend the use of torture.

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Sam Stein

Cheney In 2012? Some Key GOPers Aren't Kidding

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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At first, it seemed like a joke. Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto opined on Monday that -- if the 2012 election were to turn to national se...

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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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Don't Turn the Page on History: Facing the American World We Created

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

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Tom Engelhardt

Given the last eight years of disaster piled on catastrophe, who in would want to look backward? The urge to turn the page in this country is palpable, but -- just for a moment -- let's not.

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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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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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Dick Cheney Passes the Keys to the Dungeon to Daughter Liz

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

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Matthew Filipowicz

If Liz chooses to follow in her dad's footsteps, she will have some pretty big and pretty evil shoes to fill. That's why it's important for Dick to ease her in. Keep her from being too evil, too soon.

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Report on Cheney Shows Why We Need The Truth

Jon Soltz | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

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Jon Soltz

Did Dick Cheney knowingly send intelligence officials to Congress to mislead them about the use of waterboarding? Did the Vice President himself?

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A Few Good Spins: Dick Cheney's Code Red

Rachel Farris | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

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Rachel Farris

Dick Cheney's press junket over the last few weeks seems to be coming up short on the list of important things to talk about, slated below GM going ba...

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Letter From Paris: Calling A Dick A Dick

Beth Arnold | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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Beth Arnold

With yet another round of Dick Cheney disinformation saturating the airwaves, it boggles the mind how the Bush administration controlled the American conversation in the media for so many years.

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The GOP vs. Pelosi: Where's the Outrage?

Bob Burnett | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

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Bob Burnett

Since voters rebuffed John McCain in November, Republicans have turned to their own axis of evil -- Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, and Rush Limbaugh -- as their public face.

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If You Want To Make An Omelette, You've Got To Torture Some Guys

Ross Hyzer | Posted 06.28.2009 | Comedy

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Ross Hyzer

So let's all relax about all this torture stuff and just appreciate the fact that we live in a country founded on the idea of being able to do whatever you want all the time with no consequences whatsoever.

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Ryan Grim

Former Interrogator Rebukes Cheney For Torture Speech (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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A former top interrogator is responding forcefully to the case Dick Cheney made on Thursday in favor of torture (what the former VP and his allies ref...

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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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Dick Cheney is Crazy. Really.

Jane Smiley | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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Jane Smiley

We really need to begin seeing Cheney the way we see that paranoid old uncle we might have -- someone we should never ever listen to.

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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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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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We Can't Handle the Lie!

Shannyn Moore | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

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Shannyn Moore

If a picture tells a thousand words, the pictures now being held back by Obama, scream volumes. Their testimony demands the light of day much like the men in our containment.

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Sam Stein

Bush Critics Frustrated As Torture Debate Shifts To Pelosi

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

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For those legal, media and political figures who favor an investigation and/or prosecution of the Bush administration for the torture of detainees, th...

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How to Live Vicariously Through Britain's Blacklist

Jason Notte | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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Jason Notte

It must be somewhat comforting to live in a nation where homophobes and other bigots are placed on a blacklist and banned from that nation's shores.

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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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Big Girls Don't Cry: Speaker Pelosi and the Flap Over the CIA Interrogation Memos

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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Sophia A. Nelson

Less than an hour ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the CIA of "misleading" her on the use of harsh interrogation techniques in the fall of 2002...

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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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Sam Stein

Liz Cheney: Obama Finds It Fashionable To Side With Terrorists

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

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Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, Liz Cheney, accused Barack Obama of finding it "fashionable" to "side with the terrorists" during a Tuesday app...

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