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New DOD Interrogation Guidelines: No Waterboarding, No Dogs

Think Progress | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

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The LA Times reports that the Pentagon has issued a new directive on detainee interrogations, explicitly prohibiting the use of dogs in interrogations...

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Jason Linkins

Sacramento GOP Removes "Waterboard Obama" Graphic From Website

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

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Republican officials in Sacramento, California have removed highly offensive materials from their official website after just about everyone with even...

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Thanks Foxnews.com For Promoting Anorexia and Waterboarding

Jack Hidary | Posted 10.12.2008 | Media

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Jack Hidary

The home page of Fox News is showing an ad for a T-shirt company featuring two anorexic models. What a wonderful way to portray your feelings for y...

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It's the Democracy, Stupid: Campaigns of McCain and Palin Show How They Would Govern

Mitchell Bard | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

The disconnect between McCain's words and his actions, all in an effort to distort his record, is the central approach to his campaign. And it smells a lot like the last eight years of Bush.

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John McCain's Yellow Talk Express

Bennet Kelley | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics

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Bennet Kelley

John McCain is a coward. We have heard countless invocations of Senator McCain's courage during his 1,966 days in captivity, but it is time for the S...

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Waterboarding as Political Sideshow

Nato Thompson | Posted 08.26.2008 | Entertainment

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Nato Thompson

Located smack-dab in the center of Coney, this project tackles a dark political issue with the zeal and terrifying hilarity reserved for conditions so abysmal that laughter is a natural, if not perverse, response.

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2002 Justice memo OKs CIA interrogation tactics

AP | PAMELA HESS and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture la...

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Red Cross: CIA Tortured, Officials Could Be Guilty Of War Crimes

NY Times | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

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Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda priso...

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Guantanamo Trials: Another Torture Victim Charged

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

In the real world, where evidence obtained through torture is inadmissible, it remains unclear whether the government's attempts to set up a judicial system for alleged terrorists will ever be successful.

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Jason Linkins

Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens Undergoes Waterboarding

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media

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Just in case the revelation that American torturers took their cues from that model of moral clarity that was the Chinese Communist regime hasn't full...

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CIA Vet: Next President May Have To Scrap Agency

Washington Independent | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

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Over the last several months, there has been a gradual, but unrelenting, outing of the highest level U.S. government involvement in the sordid busines...

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America Is Stronger When America Sticks to Its Principles!

Eric Roberson | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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Eric Roberson

We are supposed to be a nation of respect for our constitutional framework. Just as we should not abandon our disdain for torture, we should not abandon the constitutional right to habeas corpus.

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Mukasey's Defense of Professional Irresponsibility

Kent Greenfield | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

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Kent Greenfield

Att. Gen. Michael Mukasey came to Boston College Law School last Friday and offered a substantive, and deeply troubling, message to our graduates.

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Torture Loophole: 'Water Treatment' Versus Waterboarding

Think Progress | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

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In February, CIA Director Michael Hayden confirmed that his agency used waterboarding on three al Qaeda suspects. But revelations from a former detain...

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The Smoking Gun

Errol Morris | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

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Errol Morris

There are smoking guns for our prisoner abuse everywhere but people pretend they don't exist. How many torture memos does an administration have to promulgate before the public gets the idea they are promulgating torture?

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What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

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Arianna Huffington

At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, John McCain admitted to me that he hadn't voted for George Bush.

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Friday Talking Points [30] -- "Mainstream Media Out To Lunch" Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news? So d...

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Senate panel makes second try at preventing waterboarding

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Tuesday to limit CIA interrogators to techniques approved by the military, which would effe...

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Friday Talking Points [29] -- Pennsylvania Fallout

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

It was a telling sign that neither Democratic candidate saw fit to visit Punxsutawney before the Pennsylvania primary. Nobody wanted the press to rem...

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Friday Talking Points [28] -- It's Debatable...

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The twenty-first debate of the Democratic presidential nomination race happened this week. Much fulminating in the blogosphere immediately followed. ...

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Great American Hypocrites: McCain's Old Packaging

Glenn Greenwald | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics

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Glenn Greenwald

Both the 2000 Bush and the 2008 McCain were mavericks -- inspiring, honest figures who transcend partisan warfare and piously float far above the muck of traditional politics.

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Phi Beta Interrogator

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics

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Jayne Lyn Stahl

What a horrific statement that some have opted to take their own lives rather than participate in practices that go against their principles.

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3/19 Anti-War Rally Photos

Chris Weigant | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Last week, on the fifth anniversary of American military involvement in Iraq, anti-war rallies were held in various locations around the country. The...

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"High Noon" over Torture

Bennet Kelley | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Interrogation, Terrorism, Waterboarding, War Crimes Act of 1996, Detainee Treatment Act, Torture, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Bennet Kelley

Bush's veto of the 2008 Intelligence Authorization Act has very little to do with Al Qaeda or even torture and everything to do with November 4th.

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Waterboarding Our Sacred Rights

Scott Atran | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics

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Scott Atran

Given America's singular military and cultural power in today's world, no less than the future of 250 years of human rights development rests on how this internal American battle over torture is resolved.

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