Gates Backed Releasing Torture Memos
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates indicated Thursday that he supported the release of sensitive memos on detainee interrogation methods last week beca...
Torture Memos
Additional Interrogation Reports Released Detailing Cheney's Personal Torture Techniques
Jake Goldman | Posted 05.24.2009 | Comedy
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Case No. 4689 - Former VP Dick Cheney v. Room Full of People Who Kind of Look Like They Have, At the Very Least, Thought About Al Qaeda.
Jay Bybee's Rules at Home: "Be Nice. Don't Hit." Bybee's Rules for the CIA: Torture Prisoners
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
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Bybee seems to be against corporal punishment at home, but has no problem with slamming prisoners against walls, locking people in boxes and simulating drowning.
McCain: Going After Bush-Era Lawyers Would Start A "Witch Hunt"
Politico | Andy Barr | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned Thursday that any attempt by the Obama administration to prosecute the Bush-era lawyers who wrote memos signing off ...
Boehner: Memos Outline "Torture Techniques"
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
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While cable news outlets and major newspapers continue to use euphemisms such as "harsh interrogation tactics" to describe the Bush administration's a...
Ron Suskind: Torture Employed To Alleviate White House 'Frustration' In Run Up To War
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
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Via Media Monitor Brian C. comes this segment from last night's Rachel Maddow Show, which began with the host stressing the need to "disambiguate" the...
Jonathan Fredman: Key Bush Era 'Enhanced Interrogator' Still At CIA
Washington Independent | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
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"As a general deal," President Barack Obama said Tuesday about Bush administration officials who shaped the post-9/11 interrogation and detention regi...
Don't Let Cheney Pick the Battlefield
David Quigg | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
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My point is simple: We cannot let Dick Cheney set the terms of America's debate about torture.
Jon Stewart Diagnoses Rove, Cheney With 'Balzheimer's'; Dispatched John Oliver to 'Bizarro Washington'
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.23.2009 | Comedy
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Jon Stewart took a few minutes at the top of Wednesday night's show to marvel at the way Dick Cheney and Karl Rove had become, for the first time ever...
Hannity Offers To Be Waterboarded For Charity (By Charles Grodin!)
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media
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Oh, well. This is, I believe, a "golden moment" in the history of televised media. Sean Hannity had actor Charles Grodin on his show tonight, and th...
Rice, Cheney Approved Waterboarding
Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
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The Associated Press reports that the highest Bush administration officials signed off on waterboarding: WASHINGTON (AP) - Then-national security adv...
Scritti Politti: April 22, 2009
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media
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Well, shucks. I didn't think it'd be possible to ride in that Well Fargo wagon, what with it's wheels all broke and it's axle all draggin'. Turns ou...
Why No Muslim Response to Torture?
Evan Derkacz | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
From Religion Dispatches' blog, The Devil's Advocate, Hussein Rashid writes: When Pres. Obama released the "torture memos" people were outraged; some...
Marcy Wheeler: 83 Waterboardings, 10 Pieces of Intel
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
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When we last heard from Marcy Wheeler of the EmptyWheel blog, she was doing the legwork that the New York Times needed done for their story on how Kha...
Torture, Done in Our Name
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.23.2009 | World
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If the rest of us are to live with ourselves, if we're to regain our own consciences, first we have to see it for what it was, and call it by its rightful name, this thing that was done in our name.
Lawrence O'Donnell Rips Into GOP Strategist Over Torture (VIDEO)
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
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Via Media Monitor LaRay B., comes video of a segment between Phil Musser and Lawrence O'Donnell, hosted by Norah O'Donnell on MSNBC. The discussion c...
Bush Torture Memos Recut In Song (VIDEO)
Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
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Jonathan Mann, the guy who brought you the "Paul Krugman" song is back putting the Bush torture memos to music. This is the 109th video in Mann's "one...
Bush Administration Ignored Military's Strong Opposition To Torture Program
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
On Tuesday, President Obama reassured CIA agents that if they interrogated prisoners within the "four corners" of the legal authority given by the Bus...
Feingold To Obama: Hold Off On Prosecution Decision
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
Senator Russ Feingold sent a letter to President Obama Wednesday praising the White House's release of Justice department memos that provided legal ju...
Torture, Truth and Accountability
Elizabeth Goitein | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
We now know that the U.S. government embraced policies that violated the law and our most fundamental shared values. A massive system failure must have occurred within every branch of government.
Abu Ghraib Head: Bush Administration Scapegoated Us
CBS | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
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Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who ran Iraq prisons in 2003, including the notorious Abu Ghraib prison was insistent that all orders on interrogat...
Are We Willing to Die for Our Country?
Taylor Marsh | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
With the release of the detainee report, we find out how our leaders, helped along by the fourth estate who fell asleep, all believe what Nixon believed -- whatever Americans do is not illegal.
Does Torture Work?
Robert Creamer | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
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As a country, we need to emerge from this debate having placed the argument that "torture works" outside of the boundaries of acceptable political discourse once and for all.
Senate Report: Harsh Tactics Used In Attempt to Establish Non-Existent Iraq-al Qaida Link
Huffington Post | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics
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A report released Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee presented new details regarding Bush administration officials' approval of the milita...
Scritti Politti: April 21, 2009
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.22.2009 | Media
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Over at Foreign Policy's Shadow Government blog, there's a thoughtful post up from Philip Zelikow - no bleeding heart, he - about torture. The whole ...
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Washington Post | Ann Scott Tyson | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics