Torture

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All Hail the Felonious Ex-Con -- Michael Vick

Paul Mecurio | Posted 09.22.2009 | Comedy

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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Is Now the Right Time for Immigration Reform? Chuck Schumer, the Sensenbrenner in Liberal's Clothes

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Detention, Biometric Identification, 2006 Immigration Bill, Illegal Immigration, Numbersusa, Jeff Sessions, Immigrants, Immigration, James Sensenbrenner, Jim Webb, Deportation, 2007 Immigration Bill, Obama Administration, Peter Schey, DREAM Act, Illegal Immigrants, Tom Daschle, McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill, Racism, Visas, Earned Legalization, Undocumented-Immigrants, Legalization, Immigration Debate, 1986 Immigration Reform, John McCain, Alberto Gonzalez, Rush Limbaugh, Homeland Security, La Raza, Xenophobia, Amnesty, Lou Dobbs, E-Verify, Chuck Hagel, Jon Kyl, Ted Kennedy, John Cornyn, Immigration Reform, John Ashcroft, Rahm Emanuel, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, 2005 Sensenbrenner Bill, Lulac, Organized Labor, Broken Borders, Chuck Schumer, Mexican Immigration, Torture, National Identification Card, Politics News

The Schumer mandate for the undocumented to register within a short period of time, or else be permanently barred from becoming U.S. residents, is a prime example of the law run amok.

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Target Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture

Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: Obama, Bush, Interrogation, Torture, Rendition, Extraordinary Rendition, World News

By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama sharply criticized the Bush Administration's extr...

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Torture: How the Good Guys and Bad Guys Handle It

Harry Shearer | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Bagram Detainees, Great Britain, Torture, World News

This weekend brought two different statements from representatives of two different governments about the notion of torture being used or condoned by their regimes.

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Obama's New Counterterrorism Message Is Good, But the Messenger Has Problems

Frank Naif | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dni, Cia, Warrantless Surveillance, Counterterrorism, Obama Counterterrorism, John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence, CIA Torture, Terrorist Surveillance Program, John Brennan Cia, Torture, Domestic Spying, Politics News

John Brennan's role as a top national security honcho in the Obama administration shows the limitations of Obama's "look to the future, not to the past" mantra.

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CIA Director Panetta: Reform Suffers for Bush Apparatchiks and Spy Chiefs

Frank Naif | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, National Security, CIA Torture, Obama Administration, Washington Post, Leon Panetta, Leon Panetta CIA, Torture, Politics News

Panetta's -- and Obama's -- instincts are correct when they promise to protect the CIA's rank and file from prosecution. But protecting the troops from prosecution is not the same as resisting accountability.

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Obama Administration Still Fighting Release of Torture Evidence

The Washington Independent | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Central Intelligence Agency, War on Terror, Guantanamo Detainees, Black Sites, Great Britain, Binyam Mohamed, Gitmo, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Cia, San Francisco Chronicle, Hillary Clinton, Bob Egelko, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Jeppesen Dataplan, Politics News

This case has dropped a off the radar screen lately, but Bob Egelko at the San Francisco Chronicle today reminds us that the Obama administration is s...

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Will Hillary Face Down Congo's Kabila? Or Will He "Crush" Her Also?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: Operation Umoja Wetu, Violence, Joseph Kabila, Bosco Ntaganda, Georgianne Nienaber, Hillary Clinton, Collateral Damage, Hrw, Torture, Ongo, Drc, Rape, World News

Kabila's army is committing a majority of the atrocities, and Hillary is going to be face to face with the butcher. Can Clinton offer a moral compass in this humanitarian tragedy, or will we once again turn our back on humanity?

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Obama's Second Hundred Days

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

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Our look back at Obama's second 100 days will begin with a short overview, and then move on to the categories: "the best of times," "the worst of times," and "the age of (media) foolishness."

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Tortured Logic

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Office of Legal Counsel, Jay Bybee, Government Accountability, John Yoo, Aclu, Steven Bradbury, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

In "Tortured Logic," a video released by the ACLU today, you'll hear well-known people like Oliver Stone, Rosie Perez and Philip Glass, read from those chilling Justice Department torture memos.

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Guantanamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Defense, War on Terror, President Obama, Guantanamo, Fbi, Binyam Mohamed, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Detention Policy Task Force, World News, Habeas Corpus, Obama Detention Policy, Politics News, Sabir Lahmar, Umar Abdulayev, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahim Al-Ginco, Judge Gladys Kessler, Pentagon, Yemen, World, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Saudi Rehabilitation, Ayman Batarfi, Justice Department, US District Court, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Uighurs, Yasim Basardah, Cia, Torture, Politics News

Prisoners who do not face ill-treatment on return to their homelands are still held, no matter how many times their release is approved by various representatives of the U.S. government.

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Economist: U.S. More Permissive Of Torture Than China

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Polling, Media Criticism, Journalism, Torture, Politics News

Yesterday, The Economist posted poll numbers on global attitudes towards torture, pulled from 2008 research conducted by World Public Opinion. The Ec...

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Americans More Tolerant Of Torture Than The Chinese

The Economist | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

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OPINIONS on whether the use of torture should be prohibited appear to vary widely around the world. According to opinion polls conducted early in 2008...

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As Judge Orders Release of Tortured Guantanamo Prisoner, Government Refuses to Concede Defeat

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

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I still have no firm idea why Obama and Holder have allowed the Justice Department to pursue unjustifiable and unwinnable habeas cases, resulting in humiliation after humiliation.

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Mohammed Jawad: Judge Orders Gitmo Detainee's Release

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Bay, Obama, Mohammed Jawad, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Eric Holder, National Security, 9/11, Justice Department, Military Tribunals, Torture, Politics News