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'Justifying' Torture: Two Big Lies

Coleen Rowley | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home


Coleen Rowley

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

Ashcroft Suggests CIA Started Torturing, Then Sought Legal Cover

Salon | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics


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

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

Washington Post | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics


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...

Testicles

John Seery | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics


John Seery

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.

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

Huffington Post via ANP | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics


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

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

Talking Points Memo | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics


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...

Mukasey's Defense of Professional Irresponsibility

Kent Greenfield | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics


Kent Greenfield

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

Nadler Grills The Torture Team With An Eye To Prosecute

Lou Dubose | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home


Lou Dubose

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.

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

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


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

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.

The Smoking Gun

Errol Morris | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics


Errol Morris

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?

War Crimes are Just the Beginning

Mark Levine | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics


Mark Levine

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.

Friday Talking Points [27] -- Petraeus Week

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

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 ...

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

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics


Barry Yourgrau

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.

Phi Beta Interrogator

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics


Jayne Lyn Stahl

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

Jason Linkins

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics


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

Friday Talking Points [26]

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

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

Jason Linkins

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics


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 ...

2001 DOJ Memo Justified Warrantless Surveillance

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


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

Pentagon Releases 2003 Memo Approving Harsh Interrogation Tactics

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics


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

Bush Nominates Torture Advocate To Senior Justice Post

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


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

Congress Must Call Bush's Bluff and Enforce All Subpoenas

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

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

Dennis Kucinich Makes History with HR-333 Impeach Cheney!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

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.

Rudy's Line

Tim Dickinson | Posted 11.03.2007 | Politics


Tim Dickinson

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.

Bring it On

Jane Smiley | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics


Jane Smiley

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

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

Michael Roston | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics


Michael Roston

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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