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Torture Memos

Additional Interrogation Reports Released Detailing Cheney's Personal Torture Techniques

Jake Goldman | Posted 05.24.2009 | Comedy

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Jake Goldman

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.

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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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Jeremy Scahill

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.

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McCain: Going After Bush-Era Lawyers Would Start A "Witch Hunt"

Politico | Andy Barr | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, John McCain, Torture Memos, Bush Lawyers, Politics News

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 ...

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Ryan Grim

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...

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Jason Linkins

Ron Suskind: Torture Employed To Alleviate White House 'Frustration' In Run Up To War

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Al Qaeda, Iraq War, Ron Suskind, War in Iraq, Rachel Maddow, Run Up to War, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

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...

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Jonathan Fredman: Key Bush Era 'Enhanced Interrogator' Still At CIA

Washington Independent | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Cia, Jonathan Fredman, Guantanamo Torture, CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Obama Torture, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

"As a general deal," President Barack Obama said Tuesday about Bush administration officials who shaped the post-9/11 interrogation and detention regi...

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Don't Let Cheney Pick the Battlefield

David Quigg | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Politics News, Cia, Andrew Sullivan, Shepard Smith, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Fox News, Waterboarding, Barack Obama, Torture Memos, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News
David Quigg

My point is simple: We cannot let Dick Cheney set the terms of America's debate about torture.

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Jason Linkins

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...

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Jason Linkins

Hannity Offers To Be Waterboarded For Charity (By Charles Grodin!)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Charity, Sean Hannity, Waterboarding, Charles Grodin, Torture Memos, Torture, Media News

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...

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Rice, Cheney Approved Waterboarding

Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Condoleeza Rice, Waterboarding, Bush Administration, Torture Memos, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

The Associated Press reports that the highest Bush administration officials signed off on waterboarding: WASHINGTON (AP) - Then-national security adv...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 22, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Earnings, Andrew Sullivan, Sex Workers, Wells Fargo, German Sex Workers, Financial Crisis, Bill Kristol, Dennis Blair, Recession, Mark to Market Accounting, Torture Memos, Idiots, Torture, Media News

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...

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Why No Muslim Response to Torture?

Evan Derkacz | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Muslims, Terrorism, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Evan Derkacz

From Religion Dispatches' blog, The Devil's Advocate, Hussein Rashid writes: When Pres. Obama released the "torture memos" people were outraged; some...

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Jason Linkins

Marcy Wheeler: 83 Waterboardings, 10 Pieces of Intel

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture, Abu Zubaydah, Dick Cheney, New York Times, Waterboarding, Torture Memos, Politics News

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...

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Torture, Done in Our Name

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

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Rick Horowitz

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.

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Jason Linkins

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...

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Bush Torture Memos Recut In Song (VIDEO)

Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Cia Memos, Jonathan Mann, Bush Torture Memos Song, Torture Memos Song, Torture Memos, Politics News

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...

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Ryan Grim

Bush Administration Ignored Military's Strong Opposition To Torture Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Torture, Torture Memos, U.S. Military, Torture, Politics News

On Tuesday, President Obama reassured CIA agents that if they interrogated prisoners within the "four corners" of the legal authority given by the Bus...

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Arthur Delaney

Feingold To Obama: Hold Off On Prosecution Decision

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, President Obama, CIA Detention, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

Senator Russ Feingold sent a letter to President Obama Wednesday praising the White House's release of Justice department memos that provided legal ju...

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Torture, Truth and Accountability

Elizabeth Goitein | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Commission of Inquiry, Bush-Office-of-Legal-Counsel, Torture Memos, Politics News
Elizabeth Goitein

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.

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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...

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Are We Willing to Die for Our Country?

Taylor Marsh | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Torture, Torture Memos, Politics News
Taylor Marsh

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.

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Does Torture Work?

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Breaking News, Hayden, Mukasey, CIA Torture, Obama, Death and the Maiden, Ariel Dorfman, Torture Memos, Cheney, Waterboarding, Obama Torture, Iraq, Politics News
Robert Creamer

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.

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Senate Report: Harsh Tactics Used In Attempt to Establish Non-Existent Iraq-al Qaida Link

Huffington Post | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate Armed Services Committee, Harsh Interrogation Report, Carl Levin, Torture Memos, Torture, Iraq, Politics News

A report released Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee presented new details regarding Bush administration officials' approval of the milita...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 21, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama, New York Magazine, Dick Cheney, The Awl, Financial Crisis, The Washington Independent, Torture Memos, Torture, Media News

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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What?! Prosecution?! For War Crimes?!

Mike Malloy | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Mike Malloy, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, CIA Torture, Torture Memos, Politics News
Mike Malloy

Today, Obama opened the door just a crack for investigations and hearings to begin. It is now up to Congress and the nation's law enforcement division to either follow through or turn away.

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