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Losing Wars We Already Won (Part I): Torture vs. WWII

Shahid Buttar | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Investigation, Nuremberg Trials, Human Rights, Cold War, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Torture, Wwii, Criminal Justice System, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo, Criminal Justice, John Durham, Veterans, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Despite public pressure from voices across the political spectrum, the Obama administration continues to sweep torture under the rug.

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What's the Big Deal?

Jane Smiley | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Bush Administration, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo, Gitmo Torture, Bush Torture, Cia Memos, Gitmo, Dick Cheney, Republicans, Torture, Jane Smiley, Politics News
Jane Smiley

Make no mistake, if we as a nation sweep the Bush crimes, committed both here and abroad, under the rug because we're too lazy or afraid or "poor" to investigate, our criminals will be back with bigger plans.

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Dan Froomkin

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Prosecution, Holder Torture, Obama Torture, Holder, Eric Holder, Torture, Obama Holder, Politics News

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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Shut Up and Listen! And That Means All of Us!

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Psychotherapy, Kimberly Krautter, Darfur, Climate Change, Rome, Health Care Reform, Gop, Kermit the Frog, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin Reaction, Torture, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

If we don't create a climate of communication, of listening and translation, there will be no health care reform.

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"We're Going to Kill Your Children": The CIA Inspector General's Report

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rendition, Waterboarding, Detainees, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Interrogations, Torture, George W. Bush, Attorney General John Ashcroft, CIA Interrogators, Attorney General Eric Holder, Glen Beck, Robert F. Kennedy, Dick Cheney, Waterboard, Savak, CIA Torture Policies, Sean Hannity, CIA Prisoners, Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, 9-11, CIA Inspector General, John Durham, Dina, Orden, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

A.G. Holder's appointment of John Durham to investigate this sordid episode should be only the first step in a wholesale reevaluation of American national security priorities in the post-9-11 world.

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Interrogation Elite

Matthew Alexander | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Interrogations, Iraq, Terrorism, Torture, Politics News
Matthew Alexander

Obama's administration announced the creation of an elite inter-agency interrogation team to handle captured high-level intelligence targets.

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Torture, Honor and Obama

Michael Brenner | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Holder, Torture Trials, Eric Holder Torture, Lynndie England, Abu Graib, Torture, Politics News
Michael Brenner

The Justice Department issued a report recommending cases involving gross abuses committed by American personnel in Iraq will be reopened. These courts inescapably will become theaters of the absurd.

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Jeff Muskus

Report: Despite Months Of Practice, Interrogators Didn't Get Much Info Through Mock Executions

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enhanced Interrogations, Mock Executions, Cia Report, Torture, Politics News

There's not much that Bush administration lawyers considered torture in their infamous Office of Legal Counsel memos, but mock execution made the list...

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ReThinking Standard Operating Procedure: Yes, Virginia, We Really Do Torture

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Cenk Uygur, Movie Review, Standard Operating Procedure, George W. Bush, Rethink Reviews, Documentaries, John Yoo, Film, Jonathan Kim, Movies, Abu Ghraib, The Young Turks, Movie Reviews, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, Lynndie England, Charles Graner, Film Critic, Errol Morris, Documentary, Iraq, Torture, Sabrina Harman, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

In light of a new report set to be released today from the CIA, I want to take another look at Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris' documentary about torture at Abu Ghraib.

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The Problem with Holder's Partial Torture Prosecutor

Ari Melber | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prosecutor, Holder, Torture, Politics News
Ari Melber

If Holder's inquiry is limited to a few contractors and junior personnel, it runs the risk of repeating the mistakes of Abu Ghraib, when the U.S. government blamed its policies on a few bad apples.

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Torture Report From 2004 Released by CIA (Help Read Through It)

Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, John Helgerson, Bush Administration, Foia, Cia, Torture, Cia Inspector General Report, Torture Memo, Redacted Documents, Politics News

Under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA has been forced by the ACLU to release its report on Bush-era interrogation operations written by former...

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Sam Stein

White House Won't Rule Out Sending Terror Suspects To Countries That Torture

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House Terrorist Suspects, White House, Detention Policy, Suspects Third Countries, Torture Suspects, Obama Detention, Torture, Politics News

The Obama administration will not rule out sending terror suspect to countries known for sanctioning torture. But the White House promised to institut...

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CIA To Release Torture Docs Cheney Requested

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, Interrogation Techniques, Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

This had been expected, and I've confirmed it: The CIA today will release the two documents Dick Cheney requested this spring that he claims will prov...

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'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and PAMELA HESS | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush, CIA Interrogations, Torture, Obama Justice Department, Guantanamo Detainees, Interrogation, Obama, Justice Department, Rendition, High-Value Detainee, Interrogation Group, HIG, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W. Bu...

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Torture Prosecutions Coming Soon? Justice Dept. Report Advises Pursuing C.I.A. Abuse Cases

nytimes.com | DAVID JOHNSTON | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Justice Department Torture, CIA Abuses Cases, Torture Prosecutions, Holder Torture, Torture, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department's ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cas...

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All Hail the Felonious Ex-Con -- Michael Vick

Paul Mecurio | Posted 09.22.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Killing, Michael Vick Jail, Animal Cruelty, Peta, The Eagles, Football, Quarterback, Michael Vick Animal Cruelty, Michael Vick Prison, Philadelphia Eagles, Paws, Dick Cheney, Murder, Sports, Nfl, Philly, Charles Manson, Entertainment News, Michael Vick Dogfighting, Michael Vick, Nfl Draft, Comedy, Torture, Bengals, Comedy News
Paul Mecurio

Vick has paid his debt to society. Yes, he practiced killing and torture and violated the code of conduct he was sworn to uphold. That doesn't make him a monster. That makes him Dick Cheney.

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CIA Conducted Mock Executions, Reveals New Report

Newsweek | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, Interrogation, Guantanamo, CIA Mock Executions, Torture, Detainees, Politics News

A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock ex...

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Interrupting Unfriendly Persuasion

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Psychological Association, Torture, The Fog of War, 9/11, CIA Torture, Psychologists, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Iraq, Psychology, Persuasion, Iraq War, Robert S. McNamara, Bush Administration Torture, American Soldiers, Vietnam, Bush Enhanced Interrogations, Vietnam Veterans, New York Times, Enhanced Interrogations, Psychologists-Torture, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

When persuasion is used without regard for the other person, when it becomes sadistic and reckless endangerment, it is what we have come to know as torture.

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Protesters Want UC Berkeley Law Professor Fired

AP | TERENCE CHEA | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: UC Berkeley, John Yoo, Torture, Anti-War, Politics News

BERKELEY, Calif. — Anti-war activists protested Monday at the University of California, Berkeley to call for the firing of a law professor who c...

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Human Rights Watch: Iraqi Gays Tortured And Killed

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Hrw, Gay in Iraq, Gay, Iraq, World, Human Rights Watch, Civil Rights, Torture, World News

BAGHDAD — Militiamen are torturing and killing gay Iraqi men with impunity in a systematic campaign that has spread from Baghdad to several othe...

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Bush National Security Leaders Silent While Junior Spies Could Face Torture Charges

Frank Naif | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nadler Torture, Special Prosecutor, Torture Investigation, Jerrold Nadler, CIA Torture, John Yoo, Obama National Security, Eric Holder, Torture, George Bush, Politics News
Frank Naif

From the prosecution and investigatory perspective, torture prosecutions appear fraught from the beginning.

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The Unconstitutional Un-Islamic Republic of Iran

Melody Moezzi | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

Read More: Taraneh-Mousavi, Shiraz, Iran Twitter, Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Laleh, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Friday-Prayer, World News, Karroubi Rape, Shah, Iran, Green Movement, Shi’A, Mehdi Karroubi, Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, Iran Protests, Revolution, Iranian Constitution, Iranian Election 2009, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Rafsanjani, Islam, Neda Agha-Soltan, Rape, Ayatollah, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran-Opposition, Rape Iran, Shi’ite, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Martyr, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Evin, Constitution, Show Trials, Iranian Election, Martyrs, Neda Agha Soltan, Neda, Torture, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, World News
Melody Moezzi

With increasing accounts of rape, torture, forced confessions and skewed judicial proceedings, the Iranian government is losing any credibility it had left, including any legitimate claim to Islam.

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Liz Cheney: Favorite Pretty Princess (VIDEO)

Warren Holstein | Posted 09.14.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Birthers, Conspiracy Theories, Msnbc, Birther-Movement, Thomas Jefferson, Media, Interview, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics, Video, Obama Birth Certificate, Obama Conspiracy, Larry King, Nobama, Liz Cheney, Cnn, Rebublicans, Gop, Fox News, Waterboarding, Barack Hussein Obama, Comedy News, Torture, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

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Now That's Trampling

Allen Keller | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Constitution, Human Rights, War on Terror, Torture, Guantanamo, Politics News
Allen Keller

Two health professionals violated fundamental medical ethics while developing and implementing a pervasive system of interrogation by torture.

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Holding Holder's Feet to the Fire

Nan Aron | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Eric Holder Attorney General, Guantanamo Torture, CIA Torture, Bush Torture, Obama Torture, Eric Holder, Torture Memos, Bush Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Nan Aron

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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