Obama Torture

Bush's CIA Director Hoped For 'Aw, Sh*t!' Moment

HuffingtonPost.com | Max J. Rosenthal | Posted 05.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- During the 2008 campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama railed against the intelligence programs implemented under President George W. Bush and...

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McCain Counters Cheney On Calls For Obama Apology

Posted 12.03.2011

In an appearance Monday on CNN, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) appeared to reject a suggestion from former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Li...

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Dick And Liz Cheney: Obama Owes Bush Administration An Apology

Posted 12.02.2011

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney, along with his daughter Liz, praised President Barack Obama Sunday for the drone strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki...

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Deliverance From Torture

Morris Davis | Posted 10.15.2011

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It is disappointing to those who believed Obama's election marked the beginning of a reckoning with America's descent into torture. Rather than drawing a bead on impunity, the president has lowered his bow and let it go.

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WikiLeaks Raise Question: What Happened To Obama's 'Moral High Ground'?

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER and PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — President Barack Obama stepped into the White House pledging to end George W. Bush's gloves-off approach to interrogations and detentio...

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Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

David Swanson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Here's the funny part. This dark fantasy of a third Bush term is also an accurate portrait of Obama's first term to date.

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At Best, A Baby Step Toward Justice For Bush's Torturers

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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When it comes to the Bush torture regime, President Obama famously wants to look forward, not backward. But if the wrong lessons have been learned, th...

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True North: In Search of Moral Direction

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's handling of the CIA's report on torture may be the last chance he has to find his way back to Grant Park.

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Holding Holder's Feet to the Fire

Nan Aron | Posted 05.25.2011

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Attorney General Eric Holder is a man on a seat that is hot and getting ever hotter. But we still don't know if the lawyers who wrote the torture memos will be brought to justice.

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Gitmo Detainees: Torture Continued During Obama Presidency

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lakhdar Boumediene's own children didn't recognize him when he stepped off the military aircraft, looking gaunt and out of place. His 8-year-old daugh...

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George W. Bush Appointees Bucking Obama On Terror Policies

Politico | JOSH GERSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama's claims of broad executive authority to carry out the war on terror are drawing fire from an unexpected source: federal judges...

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A Chance for Liberals to Break Their Silence

Tom Hayden | Posted 05.25.2011

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Silence in the face of the censorship means collaborating in the cover-up of torture.

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Confronting the CIA's Mind Maze

Alfred W. McCoy | Posted 05.25.2011

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In retrospect, it may become more apparent that the real aberration of the Bush years lay not in torture policies per se, but in the president's order that the CIA should operate its own torture prisons.

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Busted, Pentagon: Why The Photos Probably Do Show Detainees Sodomized and Raped

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

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Is systemic sex crime practiced by the US in a consequence of the lawlessness of "the war on terror" surprising to those of us who work on issues of sexual abuse and war? It is totally predictable.

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Petraeus Endorses Obama's Plans To Close GITMO, End Torture

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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General David Petraeus said this past weekend that President Obama's decision to close down Gitmo and end harsh interrogation techniques would benefit...

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Land of the Safe and Home of the Cruel

David Bromwich | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's National Archives speech was one more by Barack Obama that deferred action. It suggested the comprehension of an enormous wrong which it decided only partly to remedy.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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This week, Barack Obama reiterated that he has "no interest in spending our time re-litigating the policies of the last eight years." He may have no interest, but Dick Cheney certainly does. And he's got nothing but time on his hands. Which means we will keep re-litigating those policies until we get to the bottom of things. But Obama and his administration needn't spend even a second of their time on this. Leave that to a bipartisan Truth Commission. Look at how much we found out this month, including the fact that waterboarding was used in an attempt to extract backup for Cheney's fantasy of an Iraq/al Qaeda connection, and imagine what revelations subpoena power would bring. Without a full accounting of the Bush administration's use of torture, there will never be closure. Only endless re-litigation.

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Obama "Looks Forward" On Financial Fraud, Too

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/ | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama just issued a signing statement to the bill establishing the "Pecora Commission," mandated to investigate the financial meltdown. The statement ...

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Obama Makes Historic Gains On National Security Polling

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party as a whole have made historic gains in public trust when it comes to national security and foreign pol...

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Why Obama Must Truly Hate Bush

Steve Benen | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's a real shame Bush and Cheney screwed up so spectacularly, and ignored the law so systematically, that it's interfering with Obama's desire to govern. But Obama signed up for this gig.

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A Hollow and Horrible Equivocation

John Cusack | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is not an issue of partisan politics. It's a police matter... the investigation of a crime scene in which many more of us are complicit than is comfortable to recognize.

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Who Do You Despise More, Dick or Liz?

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Cheneys are seeking to lay the groundwork for a "Who Lost America?" debate should there be another terrorist attack during the Obama presidency.

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Bush Torture Memos Released By Obama: See The Complete Documents

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

As part of an ongoing court case, the Department of Justice released on Thursday memos issued by the Office of Legal Counsel between 2002 and 2005, de...

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Torture & Human Rights Post 9/11

John L. Esposito | Posted 05.25.2011

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The recent release of CIA memos regarding the use of torture, in particular water boarding, have been a grim reminder of the legacy of the Bush era.

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Cheney: "Mistake" For GOP To "Moderate," Glad That Detainees Were Waterboarded

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney defended the Bush administration's use of waterboarding on Thursday, saying that, contrary to arguments made by Bara...

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