Truth Commission

Assassinations, Peace and State Violence in India and Pakistan

Abdul Malik Mujahid | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Sikh, India, Punjab, Indira Gandhi, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Truth Commission, Akal Takht, Taliban, Forgiveness, Modi, Hindu, Amritsar, Military, Naxalites, Security, Muslim, Justice, Gujarat, Reconciliation, World News

As Indians mark the death anniversary of Indira Gandhi, Sikhs renew their call for justice, and Pakistan bleeds with terrorism, it is important to reflect on justice, reconciliation and forgiveness.

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Tell The Truth: You're a Real Storyteller

Richard Laermer | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Limerick, Books, Laermer.com, American Literature, Pulitzer Prize, Angela's Ashes, Frank Mccourt, Autobiograhies, Ireland, Prospective Customer Acquisition, Customers, Reading, Truth Commission, Media News

The success of Angela's Ashes taught us that the most popular stories that seem to resonate with readers and spur new and positive changes are often the true ones.

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Obama's "Drip, Drip, Drip..." Intelligence Problem

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, White House, President Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Pat Leahy, Cia, Leon Panetta, Truth Commission, Cheney, Surveillance, Obama, Eric Holder, President, Bush, Dick Cheney, Intelligence, Drip Drip Drip, Assassination, Detainee Abuse, Briefed, Panetta, Brief, Attorney General, Warrantless Wiretapping, Congress, Justice Department, Intelligence Committee, Barack Obama, Investigation, Detainee, Saturday Night Massacre, Briefing, Prisoner, Vice-President, Chris Weigant, Wiretapping, I Was Only Following Orders, Leahy, Waterboarding, Hit Squad, Water Torture, Nixon, Torture, Politics News

Obama faces a steady drip, drip, drip of stories leaking and becoming public. Wiretapping stories, torture stories, and secret CIA covert stories were all in the news in the past week alone.

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Report on Cheney Shows Why We Need The Truth

Jon Soltz | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Politics News, Vice President Dick Cheney, General David Petraeus, President Obama, Truth Commission, Dick Cheney Torture, Torture Memos, World News, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

Did Dick Cheney knowingly send intelligence officials to Congress to mislead them about the use of waterboarding? Did the Vice President himself?

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No Way Around an Investigation in Moving Forward

Morton H. Halperin | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enhanced Interrogations, Obama, Bush, Torture Memos, CIA Interrogation, Truth Commission, Torture, Politics News

The American public should hear directly, in open-door hearings, from victims of the detention, rendition, and torture.

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General Ricardo Sanchez Calls for War Crimes Truth Commission - VIDEO UPDATE

Jack Hidary | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, General Sanchez, Interrogation, Ron Suskind, Truth Commission, Rachel Maddow, Enhanced Interrogations, Center for Constituional Rights, Abu Graib, Torture, One Percent Solution, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Last night, General Ricardo Sanchez, the former commander of all coalition forces in Iraq, became the first senior military officer from the Iraqi theater to call for a truth commission.

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Friday Talking Points [79] -- Judicial Activism And Bias

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Nickolas, Supreme Court, White House, Autoworkers, Burris, Constitutional Crisis, Power Struggle, Founding Fathers, Detainee Deaths, Gingrich, President, War Crimes, Rnc, Courts, Princeton, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Sotomayor, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Pussy Galore, Un, Ralph Nader, Judicial Activism, Republican National Committee, Court, Twitter, Terry McAuliffe, Congress, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Constitution, Mddotw, Rod Blagojevich, Sonia Sotomayor, Truth Commission, Youtube, Banks, Hillary Clinton, Uaw, Bonuses, Up or Down Vote, Michael Guest, Same Sex, Nader, President Obama, Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, United Nations, Blaggy, Filibuster, Bankers, Obama, Scotus, Prejudice, Auschwitz, Blago, Republican, Government, Blagojevich, Lionel Sosa, Pelosi, Clinton, Activism, Federal Government, Bias, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Defense of Marriage Act, Legislating From the Bench, Benefits, Gm, Pyne Prize, Roland Burris, Philip Alston, Gay, State Department, Checks and Balances, Mcauliffe, Chris Kelly, Secretary of State, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Spousal Benefits, Nominee, Doma, Torture, Alston, Politics News

"Judicial activism" (or, alternatively, "legislating from the bench") is defined -- no matter what your political beliefs -- as "judges not ruling the...

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.23.2009 | Home

Read More: Obama Torture Prosecutions, Waterboarding, Obama Torture, Truth Commission, Torture, Dick Cheney, Home News

This week, Barack Obama reiterated that he has "no interest in spending our time re-litigating the policies of the last eight years." He may have no interest, but Dick Cheney certainly does. And he's got nothing but time on his hands. Which means we will keep re-litigating those policies until we get to the bottom of things. But Obama and his administration needn't spend even a second of their time on this. Leave that to a bipartisan Truth Commission. Look at how much we found out this month, including the fact that waterboarding was used in an attempt to extract backup for Cheney's fantasy of an Iraq/al Qaeda connection, and imagine what revelations subpoena power would bring. Without a full accounting of the Bush administration's use of torture, there will never be closure. Only endless re-litigation.

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Three Uneasy Questions About Torture

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Otto Kerner Jr., CIA Torture, Bush Administration, Barack Obama, Truth Commission, Obama Guantanamo, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News

What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again?

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Col. Wilkerson: "Cheney Kept Some Things From the President"

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Col. Wilkerson, Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell, Truth Commission, Waterboarding, Dick Cheney, Torture, Detainee Abuse, George Bush, Don Rumsfeld, Politics News

We interviewed Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell and he had some very interesting things to say about Cheney and Rumsfeld.

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Spock vs. Rambo

Christine Pelosi | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, Truth Commission, Rambo, Guantanamo, 9/11, Spock, 9/11 Commission, Barack Obama, Torture, Dick Cheney, Osama Bin Laden, Cheney Torture, Politics News

Watching President Obama and former Vice President Cheney duel on terror suspects: can Spock replace Rambo in the approach to Gitmo?

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Obama Still Opposes Truth Commission On Torture

AP | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Bush Torture, Obama Torture Investigation, Torture Investigation, Barack Obama, Obama Truth Commission, Truth Commission, President Obama, Obama, Bush Torture, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Despite calls in Congress for an independent "truth commission" to look into the interrogation policies of President George W. Bush...

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Rachel Maddow Finds Flaw In GOP's Pelosi Gambit (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rachel Maddow, Video, Nancy Pelosi, Truth Commission, Greg Sargent, Politics News

One of the particularly nonsensical ideas that the media has cheerfully accepted, is that briefing the Democrats somehow immunized all parties and magically transformed torture policies into perfectly legal activities.

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What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harman, Jingoism, Abuse, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Leon Panetta, Truth Commission, Jane Harman, Cheney, Democratic, Majority, Media, Policy, Bush Policy, Cindy Sheehan, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, National Security, Nancy Pelosi, Waterboard, Speaker, Briefed, House, Panetta, Interrogation, Amnesty, Democrat, Treason, Speaker of the House, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Congress, Press, Democrats, Detainee, Briefing, Classified, Prisoner, Secret, Chris Weigant, Traitor, Leak, Waterboarding, Minority, Senate, Classified Information, Torture, Politics News

Pelosi can be defended for being in an impossible situation at the time. Even if she disagreed with the policy, there simply wasn't much for her to do about it.

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Poll: Pelosi Gets More Support Than CIA In Dispute

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Investigation, Cia, Nancy Pelosi, Public Opinion Polls, Truth Commission, Public Opinion, Central Intelligence Agency, Torture Memos, Politics News

Greg Sargent highlights a Rasmussen poll today that indicates that after several days of the media flogging Nancy Pelosi's inept press conference and ...

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Torture Commission: A Gift to the Republican Right?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, John McCain, Cia, Terrorism, President Obama, Truth Commission, 9/11, Iraq, Congress, Detainees, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Education, Human Rights, National Security, Nancy Pelosi, Waterboarding, Neo-Conservatives, Health Care, Republicans, Torture, Gop, Politics News

It is a bitter pill to swallow that those most responsible for the terrible abuses of the past decade are those who are most likely to benefit from an investigation into the truth.

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Video: Why we need a Truth Commission

Sen. Patrick Leahy | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Truth Commission, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Bush Truth Commission, Politics News, Patrick Leahy, Leahy Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Bush Administration, Bush Administration Torture, Politics News

In spite of all the recent news, some in Washington still need to be sold on the idea of creating a truth commission to investigate Bush-Cheney administration.

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Seen But Not Heard

Steven Weber | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Hearings, Truth Commission, Torture, Politics News

Why no hearings to divine the truth behind this country's practice of torture? Why, really?

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Condi Rice's Tortured Macaca Moment

Ari Melber | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Condi Rice, Msnbc, Harpers, Television Torture, Philip Zelikow, Truth Commission, CIA Torture, 9/11 Commission, Jack Balkin, John Yoo, Sheldon Whitehouse, Moveon Special Prosecutor, John Conyers, Russ Feingold, Cenk Uyger, Bush Administration Torture, Special Prosecutor, Jay Bybee, Condoleezza Rice, Scott Horton, Waterboarding, Pat Leahy, Cable News, Keith Olbermann, Torture, Youtube Politics, Youtube Media, Media News

Rice's recent incident shows the prospects for what we might call a substantive Macaca Moment -- using YouTube and citizen media to scrutinize our leaders on the issues, not gaffes.

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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

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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The Law is Not a Fringe Issue

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Law, Bush Administration, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Torture, Truth Commission, Politics News

A truth commission would use the law as a compass, and its only goal would be to restore order in America. As Barbara Herbert wrote, "We need a chance for secular redemption and healing."

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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

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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Leahy Truth Commission Going Ahead Despite Lack Of Dem Support

Politico | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sen. Pat Leahy, Torture Investigation, Pat Leahy, Truth Commission, Leahy Truth Commission, Bush Torture, Leahy Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Bush Truth Commission, Politics News

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) will continue to push for a "truth commission" to investigate the Bush administration's detainee...

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Sandra Day O'Connor Should Lead Torture Investigation

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Investigation, Sandra Day O'Connor, Independent Prosecutor, Torture, Special Prosecutor, Truth Commission, Politics News

If the evidence in this case eventually passes the O'Connor barrier, then the American people can be confident that this issue was not politicized but given the judicial scrutiny it deserves.

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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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