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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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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.

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The Smoking Gun

Errol Morris | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

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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?

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Jason Linkins

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics

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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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Jason Linkins

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.11.2008 | 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 04.10.2008 | Politics

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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 04.09.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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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