Torture Memo

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Ashcroft Suggests CIA Started Torturing, Then Sought Legal Cover

Salon | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

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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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War Crimes are Just the Beginning

Mark Levine | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

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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.

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.03.2008 | 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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Bush Nominates Torture Advocate To Senior Justice Post

NY Times | PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 01.24.2008 | 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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What Is Probably in the Missing Tapes

Naomi Wolf | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

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We can guess what is probably on the missing CIA interrogation tapes -- as well as understand why those implicated are spinning so hard to pretend the tapes do not document a series of evident crimes.

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