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Jason Linkins

Maddow: Torture Memo Authors Should Go To Jail (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Justice, Rachael Maddow, Video, Steven Bradbury, Jay Bybee, Michael Isikoff, Bush Torture, John Yoo, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

Media Monitor Brian C. directs attention to a segment from last night's edition of the Rachel Maddow Show, in which the host responded to the recent n...

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Sam Stein

Dodd Ridicules "Genius" In White House Who Won't Investigate Bush (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Investigate Bush, Dodd Genius, Dodd Connecticut Bloggers, Dodd Nuremberg Trials, White House Obama, White House Torture, Chris Dodd, Obama Torture, Torture Memos, Politics News

Sen. Chris Dodd took some noticeably hard shots at the White House in a recent interview with Connecticut bloggers, ridiculing the Obama officials who...

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Torture Memo Probe By Justice Dept: Draft Calls For Disciplinary Action, Bush Aides Trying To Water Down

AP/Washington Post/HuffPost | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

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Scroll down for updates WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is nearing the end of its probe into Bush administration lawyers who wrote secret m...

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The Cheney Torture Tour: What's the Deal?

Harry Shearer | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Cheney War Crimes, Obama Torture Prosecutions, Cheney Torture, Torture Memos, Vice President Cheney, Politics News
Harry Shearer

If Cheney's re-fighting an internal argument he lost four years ago, what's the point? Three words: "don't prosecute me."

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The Toxic Residue of Torture

Deepak Chopra | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Torture, Abu Ghraib Torture, Torture, Torture Memos, Truth Commission, Politics News
Deepak Chopra

If the truth sets you free, then let's have a truth commission as a first step. Lay everything out, however painful. The aim should not be punishment but detoxification.

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Abu Ghraib Guards: We Were Scapegoats For Bush

Times London | Tim Reid | Posted 06.02.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Torture Memos Release, Abu Ghraib Guards, Torture Memos, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Abu Ghraib, World News

Prison guards jailed for abusing inmates at the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq are planning to appeal against their convictions on the ground that recently r...

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Accepting Torture?

Darius Rejali | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Polling, Ticking Time Bomb, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Darius Rejali

What is the acceptable ratio of torturing innocents-to-terrorists for America to call our campaign a success, 50-to-1, 10-to-1?

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'Enhanced Interrogation' Techniques Called Out As Torture By Fox News Legal Analyst

Fox News | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Fox News Torture, CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Fox News, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Andrew Napolitano, Torture Memos, Bush Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

I have read the 175 pages of legal memoranda ("the memos") that the Department of Justice (DoJ) released last week. They consist of letters written by...

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Jason Linkins

Chris Matthews Reacts To Obama's Answers On Torture

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ed Schultz, Video, Roger Simon, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

One of our Media Monitors, Andy L. flags this section of last night's Obama presser post-game, where MSNBC's Chris Matthews takes up the discussion of...

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Ryan Grim

Leahy Calls On Bybee To Testify On Torture

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Jay Bybee, Patrick Leahy, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

Jay Bybee finds it "frustrating" that he hasn't been able to speak publicly about his role in authorizing torture when he was a top lawyer in the Bush...

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An Officer's Obligation -- Say No to Torture

Matthew Alexander | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enhanced Interrogations, War on Terror, Constitution, Torture Memos, Rule of Law, Torture, Politics News
Matthew Alexander

As a former active duty military officer, it is troubling to me that other military officers followed unlawful orders to torture or abuse prisoners.

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Transparency in the First 100 Days: Grading the Obama Administration

Elizabeth Goitein | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, National Security, Barack Obama, Torture Memos, 100 Days, Truth Commission, State Secrets, Politics News
Elizabeth Goitein

In cases where people seek accountability for government misconduct the administration's commitment to transparency falls by the wayside in every instance.

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Crime and Crime Again

Hart Bochner | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prosecute Cheney, Cheney, Attorney General, Donald Rumsfeld, Eric Holder, Torture Memos, Bush Torture Memos, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Hart Bochner

It will become its own kind of crime if Obama does not set precedent at such a crucial juncture and pursue justice against the Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz rat pack.

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Make the Torturers Face Justice

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Iraq, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Eric Margolis

President Obama must show the world that America upholds the law, rejects torture of all kinds, and that no officials are above the law.

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What if Instead of the Nuremberg Trials There Was Only a Truth Commission?

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Corn, Aclu, John Conyers, MoveOn.Org, Patrick Leahy, Jerrold Nadler, Jameel Jaffer, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Special Prosecutor, Lawrence Wilkerson, Center for Constitutional Rights, Barack Obama Torture, Michael Ratner, David-Swanson, Harry Reid, Scott Horton, ACLU Torture, David Broder, Torture Memos, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

As some liberals make the case against a Special Prosecutor, the lawyers who fought for the release of the torture memos push back and explain why prosecutions are the only response.

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Jason Linkins

Joe Scarborough: Blame Dana Priest "If Planes Go Into Buildings" Because She Reported On Waterboarding [UPDATED: Scarborough Responds]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Joe Scarborough, Dana Priest, Torture Memos, Torture, Media News

UPDATE: Joe Scarborough has issued the following statement: Earlier today on Morning Joe, a guest suggested that President Obama might shoulder the b...

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Waterboarding Sean Hannity

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media

Read More: George Bush, Reality Television, Reality TV, Geneva Convention, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, Fox, Keith Olbermann, Justice Department, Bush Torture Memos, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Talk-Show-Host, Cnn, Sean Hannity, Talk Shows, Extraordinary Interrogation Techniques, Fox News, Bush Torture, Waterboarding, Cable News, Torture Memos, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Media News
Hoyt Hilsman

Sean Hannity's offer to undergo waterboarding for charity is almost too good to refuse.

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The Bad Apples Were at the Top

Stephen Funk | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Suicide, Military, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Torture Memos, Veterans, Torture, War Crimes, Iraq War, Following Orders, Bush Administration, Al-Queida, Obama, Waterboarding, Politics News
Stephen Funk

If Alyssa Peterson had never been ordered to torture she would still be alive.

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How do we Debate the Unthinkable?

Peter Henne | Posted 05.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Obama Administration, Bush Administration Torture, Terrorism, Torture Memos, Ali Soufan, Torture, Home News
Peter Henne

The torture memos were a case of our nation's elites turning the unspeakable into the ordinary. Our responsibility now is to ensure it never becomes ordinary, even as a subject of condemnation.

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Sam Stein

Gingrich Condemned Torture In '97: Violates The "Foundation Of American Values"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

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One of the more difficult rows to hoe in the ongoing debate over detainee treatment has been the insistence by some conservatives, against countervail...

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Ryan Grim

California Democrats Call For Criminal Investigation Of Bybee

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Democrats, Jay Bybee Torture Memos, Bush Administration Lawyers, Jay Bybee, Jay Bybee Investigation, Torture Memos, Torture Memos Investigation, San Francisco-California, Sacramento-California, Politics News

The California state Democratic Party called for a "vigorous investigation" into the "possible criminal actions of Judge Jay Bybee and others" on Sund...

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TriBeCa Interview: Barry Levinson and the Politics of Politics

Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 05.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tribeca Film Festical, Wag the Dog, Barry Levinson, Good Morning Vietnam, Entertainment, Politics in Hollywood, Liberty Heights, Satire, Rain Man, Poliwood, Oz, Torture Memos, Barry Levinson Director, Entertainment News
Matthew-Lee Erlbach

Generally Hollywood always looks down on movies with political content. Political content is a kiss of death.

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David Corn: Special Prosecutor's Job Is Not To Expose Wrongdoing

Mother Jones | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Corn, Bush Administration Torture, Patrick Fitzgerald, Special Prosecutor, Torture Prosecution, Truth Commission, Guantanamo Torture, CIA Torture, Moveon Special Prosecutor, Torture Memos, Bush Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

The other day I ran into a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, and this person noted that he fancied the idea of appointing a special p...

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The "Beautiful Kidnapper" and Other Simple Responses to Torture Arguments

RJ Eskow | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jay Bybee, 24, Jack Bauer, Torture, Ticking Timebomb, Beautiful Kidnapper, Waterboarding, Torture Memos, Politics News
RJ Eskow

The next time somebody mentions the 'ticking time bomb' scenario, hit 'em with 'the beautiful kidnapper' - then ask them if they believe in marriage and the family.

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Dickipedia: John Yoo

Dickipedia | Kevin Allocca | Posted 05.28.2009 | Comedy

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John Choon Yoo (born June 10, 1967) is an American attorney, former U.S. Justice Department official, Berkeley law professor, writer of memos, foremos...

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