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The Company You Keep

Tom Andrews | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: votevets.org, Vote Vets, Trent Reznor, Jon Soltz, Nine Inch Nails, Debra Burlingame, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Music, Close Gitmo Now, Dick Cheney, Keep America Safe. National Campaign to Close Guantanamo, Jay Bagwell, Pearl Jam, New Security Action, Bill Kristol, Liz Cheney, William Kristol, R.E.M., Vice President Cheney, Nin, Matthew Alexander, Gtmo, Politics News
Tom Andrews

Yesterday's announcement by acclaimed musicians that they were signing onto our National Campaign to Close Guantanamo Bay generated a harsh response from Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol.

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Why Musicians Are Right, Liz Cheney Is Wrong

Jon Soltz | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Billy Bragg, Pearl Jam, Trent Reznor, Keep-America-Safe, Liz Cheney, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, The Roots, Jackson Browne, Matthew Alexander, Votevets, Roseanne-Cash, R.E.M., Rise Against, Torture, Politics News
Jon Soltz

By lobbying to keep Guantanamo Bay open, Liz Cheney's group is helping keep alive one of the greatest recruiting posters that al Qaeda ever had.

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The Torture Report

Jameel Jaffer | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Glenn Greenwald, Freedom of Information Act, Department of Justice, President Bush, Maj. David Frakt, Marcy Wheeler, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Matthew Alexander, Politics News
Jameel Jaffer

Five years after Abu Ghraib, the Defense Department is still withholding photographs showing prisoners being abused at other facilities, as well as interrogation directives used by special forces.

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Did the Washington Post's Richard Cohen Scare the "*#*!#!" Out of You?

David Danzig | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Dia, How-to-Break-a-Terrorist, Eric Maddox, Matthew Alexander, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Richard Cohen, Iraq, Stuart Herrington, Torture, Politics News
David Danzig

Why would U.S. interrogators choose to use torture when other techniques have proven to be so much more effective?

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Ex-Interrogators Are Mad as Hell About Torture, and They're Not Gonna Take Cheney Anymore

ZP Heller | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moveon, Tom Hayden, Abuse, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo, Matthew Alexander, Iraq, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Detainees, Politics News
ZP Heller

More and more, former interrogators and counterinsurgency experts are using Dick Cheney's recent ubiquity to expose his iniquity regarding the torture and abuse of detainees.

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Why Do So Many Republicans Hate America?

Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tear Down This Wall, Meet the Press, Reagan Berlin, Ronald Reagan, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Dick Durbin, Guantanamo, 9/11, Matthew Alexander, Keith Olbermann, Lindsey Graham, Due Process, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics of Fear, Jonathan Alter, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Freedom, Hate Us for Our Freedom, General Petraeus, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Berlin, Torture, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

I say that Cheney and Gingrich don't love America because they don't seem to care about American values as they have traditionally been viewed.

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Former Interrogator Slams Cheney Over Torture Policy

ZP Heller | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Barack Obama, Matthew Alexander, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Torture, Video, Politics News
ZP Heller

According to Matthew Alexander, the torture and abuse conducted at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo became the number one recruiting tool for foreign fighters who attacked coalition forces in Iraq.

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My Written Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing

Matthew Alexander | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Interrogations, Senate Testimony, How-to-Break-a-Terrorist, Matthew Alexander, Torture, Politics News
Matthew Alexander

This is my full testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse read a portion of this statement near the end of today's hearing.

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FBI Interrogator: Waterboarding Does Not Work

David Danzig | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matthew Alexander, Waterboarding, Cia, Ali Soufan, Torture, Politics News
David Danzig

According to Ali Soufan, an FBI interrogator, waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation" procedures caused a key Al Qaeda operative to clam up, not provide actionable intelligence.

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Torture Revelations Will Leave the Left Frustrated

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, President Obama, Red Cross, Geneva Convention, Afghanistan War, Abu Zubaydah, Cheney, Status of Forces Agreements, Judge Bybee, Congress, Rumsfeld, Sen. John McCain, Abu Ghraib, Detainees, Bush, Iraq War, Pows, Michael Hayden, George Washington, Ali Soufani, Robert Mueller, Dennis Blair, Fbi, Matthew Alexander, Torture, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

The most likely outcome of this whole business will be that nobody will be punished.

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Jason Linkins

Interrogator On Daily Show: 'I Never Saw Coercive Methods Pay Off'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, War in Iraq, Jon Stewart, Iraq War, Waterboarding, The Daily Show, How to Break a Terrorist, Matthew Alexander, Torture, Media News

Matthew Alexander (not his real name) is a fourteen year Air Force vet who served as an interrogator in Iraq, and he's written a book called How to Br...

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Former US Interrogator: Torture Policy Has Killed Thousands Of US Soldiers

AlterNet | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, War Wire, Matthew Alexander, Enhanced Interrogations, Waterboarding, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, Politics News

Amy Goodman: Writing under the pseudonym Matthew Alexander, a former special intelligence operations officer, who led an interrogations team in Iraq t...

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Interrogator Speaks: I'm Still Tortured By What I Saw In Iraq

washingtonpost.com | Matthew Alexander | Posted 12.31.2008 | Home

Read More: Iraq Interrogator, Interrogators Al Qaeda, Team Interrogators, Matthew Alexander, Interrogator Tortured, Military Interrogator, Al-Zarqawi Torture, Iraq, Home News

I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfull...

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