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Bill O'Reilly Threatens To Not Travel To Spain Anymore (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Video, Amanda Terkel, Spain Lawsuit, John Yoo, David Addington, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, Spain, Dick Cheney, Center for American Progress, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politics News

Oh, snap, y'all! Fox News' Bill O'Reilly is WARRING, people! And not just with tearful towheaded turf taker Glenn Beck. No, no! O'Reilly has heard...

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Memos Provide Blueprint for Police State

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 04.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Jay Bybee, John Yoo, War on Terror, Warrantless Surveillance, Torture Memos, Torture, Home News

According to the reasoning in these memos, Congress has no role to check and balance the executive. That is the definition of a police state.

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Obama Administration Defends Torture Memo Author John Yoo

Bloomberg | Karen Gullo | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Administration, Yoo Lawsuit, Torture Memo, John Yoo, Politics News

The Obama administration, seeking to dismiss a lawsuit by a U.S. citizen convicted of terrorism who claims he was tortured, defended former government...

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Author Of Bush Torture Memos Regrets Style, Not Content

The Washington Independent | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, George W. Bush, Bush Memos, John Yoo, Torture Memo, John Yoo Memo, John Yoo Torture, Politics News

In an interview yesterday with the Orange County Register, picked up by Jason Leopold at The Public Record, John Yoo says he doesn't regret the substa...

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John Yoo's Legal Groundwork for Subverting the Republic

Naomi Wolf | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Memos, Bush Administration, Bush Doj, John Yoo, Bush Justice Department, John Yoo Memo, George W. Bush, Politics News

The release this week of the "secret memos" confirms that Bush's legal architects were building up the framework for something even scarier than our most anguished projections.

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Bush Considered Throwing Out First Amendment

Newsweek | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush First Amendment, 9/11, Bush Memo, Bush Torture, John Yoo, Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo Memo, Politics News

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the U.S. military to attack apartment buildings and off...

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Dem Senators Pressure Obama's DOJ To Release Torture Report

The Plum Line | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sheldon Whitehouse, Obama Justice Department, Greg Craig, Dick Durbin, Obama Doj, Obama Administration, John Yoo, Torture Memo, Eric Holder, Torture Memos, John Yoo Memo, Politics News

Yesterday I pointed you to this big scoop in Newsweek reporting that an internal Justice Department review conducted under the Bush administration had...

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Justice Department Torture Report Could Spell Big Trouble For Bush Lawyers

Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | Posted 03.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Lawyers, Jay Bybee, Justice Department Report Waterboarding, Justice Department, Bush Administration Investigations, John Yoo, Bush Lawyers, Politics News

An internal Justice Department report on the conduct of senior lawyers who approved waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics is causing anx...

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Bush Torture Memo Author Yoo Gets New Gig

Overruled | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Bush Torture, Disclosure of Yoo Memo, Yoo, Bush Yoo, Bush Torture Meetings, Bush Torture, John Yoo, John Yoo Memo, John Yoo Torture, Politics News

Academic freedom is very important. Universities exist to produce knowledge, unconstrained by political winds or the whims of wealthy donors. If pro...

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Obama Lawyers Set To Defend Bush 'Torture Memo' Author In Court

Politico | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Jose Padilha, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Obama Lawyers, Disclosure of Yoo Memo, Yoo, Jose Padilla, Donald Rumsfeld, John Yoo, Jose Padilla 17 Years Sentence, Jose Padilla Prison, John Yoo Memo, John Yoo Torture, Politics News

In Democratic legal circles, no attorney has been more pilloried than former Bush Justice Department official John Yoo, chief author of the so-called ...

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The Torture Memos Are the Crime: Why Obama and Holder Should Smack Cornyn Down

Pete Cenedella | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, Attorney General, Holder Confirmation, Senator John Cornyn, Department of Justice, John Yoo, Alberto Gonzales, Barack Obama, Torture Memos, Eric Holder, Torture, Politics News

Whether John Cornyn and his fellow apologists for torture like it or not, Eric Holder not only has every right to pursue those who participated in the torture memos, it will be his duty to do just that.

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Scritti Politti: Inauguration Day, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama's Inauguration, John Yoo, John Podesta, Blackberry, Department of Justice, Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama, Media News

Inauguration Day! It's still quite young. But, however you choose to celebrate tonight, get home safe. And for everyone heading out to a hoity-toit...

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Torture: A modest proposal

Mark Kleiman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stress Positions, Terrorism, John Yoo, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Hypothermia, David Addington, Commander-in Chief, Dick Cheney, Inherent Powers, John Ashcroft, Bagram, Waterboarding, Alberto Gonzales, Torture, Politics News

While the Bush administration has no doubt made errors in the course of its valiant attempts to protect us all, in one respect it has displayed admirable creativity, from which the Obama administration could benefit.

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Conservative Lawyers Defend Holder (and the Unitary Executive)

Doug Kendall | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Holder Attorney General, Presidential Power, John Yoo, Constitution, Unitary Executive, Surveillance. Torture, Barack Obama, Rule of Law, Dick Cheney, Politics News

The letter in defense of Eric Holder is a classic articulation of the idea that the President is a unitary executive. It also happens to be essentially right.

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The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part One)

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.24.2009 | Politics

Cheney's version of the truth on interrogations does not stand up to scrutiny, and features ten lies that should not be allowed to pass without further comment and analysis.

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No Soup For Yoo: Our Right to Refuse Service to the Constitution's Torturers

David Quigg | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Dark Side, War on Terror, Cia, Terrorism, Jack Goldsmith, Guantanamo, George Bush, John Yoo, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Enhanced Interrogations, Alberto Mora, Waterboarding, Jane Mayer, David Addington, Torture, Politics News

Reading The Dark Side, as I just have, forces a stomach-turning, jaw-clenching reckoning with Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, CIA kidnappings, secret prisons, waterboarding, and a shameful list of other soul-shattering abuses.

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Ambassador for All War Crimes Except Our Own

Charles J. Brown | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, John Bolton, John Yoo, Human Rights Watch, Sri Lanka, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, Madeleine Albright, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Condoleezza Rice, International Criminal Court, Timothy Flanigan, David Scheffer, Stephen Cambone, William J. Haynes, David Addington, Yugoslavia, Michael Chertoff, State Department, War on Terror, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, George Tenet, Cambodia, Clint Williamson, Alberto Gonzales, Rwanda, Torture, Icty, Ictr, George Bush, United Nations, 9/11, Human Rights Abuses, Convention on Torture, Abu Ghraib, Icc, Politics News

The Office of War Crimes Issues doesn't just tell other countries to do as we say and not as we do. The Administration has actually made OWCI complicit of its own war crimes apparatus.

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Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...

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Ashcroft Suggests CIA Started Torturing, Then Sought Legal Cover

Salon | Posted 07.25.2008 | 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 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, George W, Bush, Justice Department, Bush Administration Interrogation Techniques, Bush Administration Torture Legalizing, John Ashcroft, Bush Justice Department, John Yoo, Jack Goldsmith, John Yoo Memo, Torture, Bush Administration Torture, John Yoo Torture, Politics News

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 07.05.2008 | 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 07.04.2008 | 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 07.04.2008 | 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 06.06.2008 | 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 05.21.2008 | 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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