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'Justifying' Torture: Two Big Lies

Coleen Rowley | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home

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By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern, originally posted on Consortiumnews.com on July 19, 2008. One can assume that former Attorney General John Ashcro...

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Ashcroft Suggests CIA Started Torturing, Then Sought Legal Cover

Salon | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Cia Waterboarding, John Ashcroft Testimony, John Ashcroft Testifies, John Ashcroft, John Yoo, Torture Memo, Torture Memos, Bush Administration Torture, Politics News

Much attention has been focused on the bizarre legal reasoning behind the Bush administration's "torture memos," a series of documents starting in Aug...

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Bush Rejected Ashcroft's DOJ Picks In Favor Of Torture-Legalizing Loyalist

Washington Post | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

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Then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft offered the White House a list of five candidates to lead the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel in ear...

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Testicles

John Seery | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Terrorism, Testicle Torture, John Yoo Child Torture, CIA Torture, John Yoo, David Addington, Yoo Child Torture, Torture, Politics News

In attempting to prevent a calamity, in matching wits with our despicable opponent, we have abandoned certain restraining principles, and in the process, become a moral monster.

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John Yoo, David Addington Testify On Torture, Detention Policies (VIDEO)

Huffington Post via ANP | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

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David Addington, a longtime aide to Dick Cheney, and John Yoo, who helped write the infamous "torture memos," testified before the House Judiciary Com...

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Conyers Asks DOJ Torture Lawyer: Could President Order Suspect Buried Alive?

Talking Points Memo | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: House Judiciary Committee, John Yoo, Torture Memos, John Conyers, David Addington, Torture, Politics News

David Addington is going to say as little as possible to the House Judiciary Committee today. The Vice President's chief of staff didn't submit testim...

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Mukasey's Defense of Professional Irresponsibility

Kent Greenfield | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Boston College Graduation Speaker, Law Enforcement, Boston College, Michael Mukasey, Waterboarding, John Yoo, Politics News

Att. Gen. Michael Mukasey came to Boston College Law School last Friday and offered a substantive, and deeply troubling, message to our graduates.

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Nadler Grills The Torture Team With An Eye To Prosecute

Lou Dubose | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home

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The Bush Administration shielded itself from anti-torture laws, but prohibitions on torture aren't so easily circumvented-- they live on the books here and overseas and without statutes of limitation.

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Gas Prices, Persian Gulf, Right Wing Media, Oil Sands, Renewable Energy, Neal Boortz, Depleted Uranium, Dick Cheney, Tar Sands, Dan Abrams, Environmental Protection Agency, Solar Tax Credits, Oil Industry, Richard Nixon, Dow Chemical, Guantanamo Torture, Michael Savage, John Ashcroft, Mary Gade, Chevron, Dioxin, Solar Power, Thomas Friedman, Tavis Smiley, John Conyers, Karl Rove, Bp, Rush Limbaugh, Exxon Mobil, Mother Jones, Green Building, Lou Dobbs, Iraq Contractors, Co2, John Yoo, Iraqi Interpreters, Shell Oil, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Whistleblowers, Talk Radio, Kbr, Media Consolidation, Don Siegelman, 60 Minutes, Sean Hannity, Conocophillips, Ducks, Fox News, Clean Technology, Glenn Beck, Bush Approval Rating, Bill O'Reilly, Media News

Hundreds of ducks made a fatal landing in oil and toxic sludge; Republicans block federal aid to wind and solar; the shocking testimony of three whistleblowers on US contractors in Iraq.

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The Smoking Gun

Errol Morris | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Standard Operating Procedure, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, CIA Torture, Abu Ghraib Photos, John Yoo, John Yoo Memo, Abu Ghraib, Bush Administration Torture, Abu Ghraib Torture, Errol Morris, Bush Torture, Waterboarding, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Errol Morris Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News

There are smoking guns for our prisoner abuse everywhere but people pretend they don't exist. How many torture memos does an administration have to promulgate before the public gets the idea they are promulgating torture?

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War Crimes are Just the Beginning

Mark Levine | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, John Ashcroft, Middle East, John Yoo, Guantanamo, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, David Addington, Torture Memo, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News

For anyone who's traveled unembedded through Iraq since the U.S. invasion and occupation began five years ago, Andrew Sullivan's warning brings a sad smile of recognition, and a hope that his words will prove prophetic.

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Friday Talking Points [27] -- Petraeus Week

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

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Thus endeth another Petraeus week on Capitol Hill. I have to say, I was impressed at the caliber of the questions asked, but severely disappointed at ...

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John Yoo's Torture Opinions Are Not Just "Opinions"

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Yoo, Nuremberg Trials, Torture, War Crimes, John Yoo, Interrogation, John Yoo Memo, Politics News

The Nuremberg Trials established the precedent that a lawyer does not get to enable war crimes and plead "it's just an opinion." That kind of opinion is an act -- an act of enabling war crimes.

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Phi Beta Interrogator

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Iraq War, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Interrogation, Waterboarding, John Yoo, Iraq, Alyssa Peterson, Iraq Suicides, John Yoo Memo, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

What a horrific statement that some have opted to take their own lives rather than participate in practices that go against their principles.

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Andrew Sullivan: Bush Administration Officials Will Be 'Indicted For War Crimes'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Torture, John Yoo, Disclosure of Yoo Memo, Andrew Sullivan, Chris Matthews, John Yoo Memo, Politics News

Media coverage of the disclosure of the "torture memo" authored by Bush Justice Department official John C. Yoo has been mostly a deafening silence. ...

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Friday Talking Points [26]

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Since the campaigns of both Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama have seemingly taken my advice earlier this week, and are both concentrat...

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Disclosure Of Torture Memo Fails To Grab Traditional Media's Attention

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics

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What if they disclosed a torture memo and nobody cared? This week, an 81-page memo, authored by John C. Yoo, who was a deputy in the Office of Legal ...

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2001 DOJ Memo Justified Warrantless Surveillance

AP | PAMELA HESS and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Justice, DOJ Memo, John Yoo, Warrantless Surveillance, Warrantless Wiretapping, Politics News

WASHINGTON — For at least 16 months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, the Bush administration believed that the Constitution's protecti...

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Pentagon Releases 2003 Memo Approving Harsh Interrogation Tactics

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Tuesday made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror...

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Bush Nominates Torture Advocate To Senior Justice Post

NY Times | PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics

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The Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques was renominate...

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Congress Must Call Bush's Bluff and Enforce All Subpoenas

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: Josh Bolten, Pervez Musharraf, Scott Jennings, Karl Rove, Susan Taylor, Harriet Miers, Trent Lott, John Yoo, George W. Bush, Politics News

If President George W. Bush continues to duck Congressional subpoenas against his current and former staff members he should be impeached.

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Dennis Kucinich Makes History with HR-333 Impeach Cheney!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics

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Even the most cursory reading of anything James Madison wrote on the subject of executive power clearly shows that Dick Cheney's expansive views of the powers of the Executive Branch are totally un-American.

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Rudy's Line

Tim Dickinson | Posted 11.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: John Yoo, David Addington, Rudy Giuliani, Torture, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

The only way to make sure that intensive questioning does not rise to the level of torture is to stop far, far short of torture.

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Bring it On

Jane Smiley | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Mukasey Torture, Waterboarding, David Addington, John Yoo, Michael Mukasey, Torture, Politics News

A responsible citizen is expected to conform to the laws no matter what his emotional state. Same with Cheney and Bush.

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Memo To Judge Mukasey: No One Is Asking You To Be Mister Congeniality

Michael Roston | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Michael Mukasey, Senate, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Attorney General, Torture, Politics News

This is an old rhetorical trick used in order to justify altering the laws governing our use of force against detained individuals.

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