Enhanced Interrogations

Senate Probe Could Target Cheney For Interrogation Briefings

Mother Jones | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

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Dick Cheney, as vice president, was once the president of the Senate. Now he could become the target of a Senate investigation, for the Senate intelli...

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Cheney Led Briefings Of Members Of Congress To Defend Interrogation Techniques

Washington Post | Paul Kane and Joby Warrick | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

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Former vice president Richard B. Cheney personally oversaw at least four briefings with senior members of Congress about the controversial interrogati...

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No Way Around an Investigation in Moving Forward

Morton H. Halperin | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

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Morton H. Halperin

The American public should hear directly, in open-door hearings, from victims of the detention, rendition, and torture.

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Should We Waterboard the Domestic Terrorist Who Shot Dr. Tiller?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

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Cenk Uygur

I'm sure all of my conservative friends agree, right? Sean Hannity? Rush Limbaugh? Bill O'Reilly? You're all on board for torturing this terrorist detainee, right?

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General Ricardo Sanchez Calls for War Crimes Truth Commission - VIDEO UPDATE

Jack Hidary | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

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Jack Hidary

Last night, General Ricardo Sanchez, the former commander of all coalition forces in Iraq, became the first senior military officer from the Iraqi theater to call for a truth commission.

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Not in My Backyard: Fear of the Guantánamo Legion of Doom

Warren Holstein | Posted 06.26.2009 | Comedy

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Warren Holstein

Yup, that's right, the self-same prison system that has held Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Son of Sam is apparently no match for a bunch of unarmed, sensory-deprived foreigners.

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Former Senior Interrogator in Iraq Dissects Cheney's Lies and Distortions

Matthew Alexander | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics

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Matthew Alexander

Our greatest success in this conflict was achieved without torture or abuse. My interrogation team found Abu Musab Al Zarqawi using relationship-building approaches and non-coercive law enforcement techniques.

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The Cheney Campaign

John McQuaid | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

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John McQuaid

Such posturing by Cheney may be catnip to the press, but it's virtually irrelevant to the world we live in, and unhelpful to the hard work of protecting us.

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Jason Linkins

Abu Ghraib Ties To Gitmo Shown By DOJ Memos

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

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Yesterday, in his remarks at the American Enterprise Institute, former Vice President Dick Cheney protested that everyone had Abu Ghraib all wrong! ...

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Cheney Revealed As A Terminator During Latest Speech

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 06.21.2009 | Comedy

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Matthew Filipowicz

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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Jeff Muskus

GOP Wants To Investigate Pelosi And Only Pelosi

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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House Republicans aren't opposed to investigating what government officials knew about U.S. torture practices, as long as those officials are Nancy Pe...

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"Unpleasant Things"

Harry Shearer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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Harry Shearer

Buried deep within the former Vice President's chest-thumping speech defending the Enhanced... excuse me, the Unpleasant Things Program was a bizarre boast.

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Speaker Pelosi, 9/11 and Torture

Hal Donahue | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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Hal Donahue

Speaker Pelosi stood tall and called for an independent commission then; she calls for an independent commission now.

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A Hollow and Horrible Equivocation

John Cusack | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

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John Cusack

This is not an issue of partisan politics. It's a police matter... the investigation of a crime scene in which many more of us are complicit than is comfortable to recognize.

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Sam Stein

KSM Questioned About al Qaeda-Iraq Ties During Waterboarding

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

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Some of the first questions asked of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed upon his capture and during the time during which he was waterboarded were about possible ...

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Why Obama Must Truly Hate Bush

Steve Benen | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

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Steve Benen

It's a real shame Bush and Cheney screwed up so spectacularly, and ignored the law so systematically, that it's interfering with Obama's desire to govern. But Obama signed up for this gig.

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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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The Philadelphia Inquirer and John Yoo

John McQuaid | Posted 06.13.2009 | Media

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John McQuaid

Yoo's hiring at the Inquirer is an assent to the dangerous notion that if the U.S. government engaged in torture no matter how reprehensible it might be, it must have some legitimacy.

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The Price of Freedom

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

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Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

The enduring question is whether a small group of people in power have the right to redefine the nature of America's core values and ideals through policy decisions made under the cover of secrecy.

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Cheney in 2012?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

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Cenk Uygur

If you really want a litmus test of whether the Republican Party is losing elections because they are too far left or too far right, what better way of doing that than running the man who best represents the right?

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Cheney To Travel Around Country In Sound Truck

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.11.2009 | Comedy

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Andy Borowitz

According to aides to the former vice president, Mr. Cheney had briefly considered starring in an IMAX film called "The Dick Cheney 3-D Experience" before settling on the less costly sound truck idea.

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An Officer's Obligation -- Say No to Torture

Matthew Alexander | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

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Matthew Alexander

As a former active duty military officer, it is troubling to me that other military officers followed unlawful orders to torture or abuse prisoners.

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Military Agency Called Harsh Methods 'Torture,' 'Unreliable'

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

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The military agency that helped to devise harsh interrogation techniques for use against terrorism suspects referred to the application of extreme dur...

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Karl Rove Tweets on Torture

John McQuaid | Posted 05.25.2009 | Home

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John McQuaid

That Rove is blithely spinning on one of the gravest moral issues before us is both ridiculous and chilling, an example of the Bush administration's elevation of politics above the nation's bedrock ideals.

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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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