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Making His List: Presidential Pardons and Torture

Allen Keller | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abuse, Human Rights, War on Terror, Presidential Pardons, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Waterboarding, Bush Pardons, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

At their essence, human rights, including a ban on torture, are about respecting human dignity. They are guiding principles for how and what governments ought and ought not do.

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Hail Knight of the Woeful Countenance

Norman Horowitz | Posted 12.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Barren, Infertile, Military, Sullen, Gloomy, Halliburton, Man of La Mancha, Waterboarding, Dour, Stern, Dick Cheney Iraq, Iraq, Rocky, Vice President Cheney, Dick Cheney, Home News

Listening to Cheney is difficult enough, but watching his face and body language made me wonder who exactly is "inside" of this man who appears to suck the light and energy from wherever he is.

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Cheney's Confession Should Lead to Criminal Investigation of Bush's Torture Policies

Mitchell Bard | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jonathan Karl, Impeachment, Bush War Crimes, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, George W. Bush, Cheney Impeachment, Keith Olbermann, Eric Holder, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Cheney War Crimes, Evan Wallach, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Eric Holder Marc Rich, Bush Impeachment, Rod Blagojevich, Dennis Kucinich, Guantanamo Bay, Bill Clinton Impeachment, Washington Post, Cheney Torture, Bush Torture, Waterboarding, ABC News, World War II, Eric Holder Elian Gonzalez, Torture, Politics News

If the Bush administration would have at least acted like they might have done something wrong, maybe we could have moved on. But if Cheney is going on national TV to endorse torture, he has tied the hands of the country.

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War Crimes and Incompetence -- the Real Shoes Thrown at Bush

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee released a report which basically called Bush and his entire National Security Council war criminals.

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Interrogator On Daily Show: 'I Never Saw Coercive Methods Pay Off'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Video, War in Iraq, Jon Stewart, Iraq War, Waterboarding, The Daily Show, How to Break a Terrorist, Matthew Alexander, Torture, Media News

Matthew Alexander (not his real name) is a fourteen year Air Force vet who served as an interrogator in Iraq, and he's written a book called How to Br...

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Dem Senator Reasserts Hard Line Against Torture After Blogger Outrage

New York Times | Scott Shane And Mark Mazzetti | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Waterboarding, Dianne Feinstein, Senate Intelligence Committee, Torture, Politics News

After some bloggers raised concerns that Senator Dianne Feinstein might be shifting her stance on the issue of American interrogation policy, the Cali...

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Former US Interrogator: Torture Policy Has Killed Thousands Of US Soldiers

AlterNet | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, War Wire, Matthew Alexander, Enhanced Interrogations, Waterboarding, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, Politics News

Amy Goodman: Writing under the pseudonym Matthew Alexander, a former special intelligence operations officer, who led an interrogations team in Iraq t...

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An Interrogator Speaks: I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw In Iraq

Washingtonpost.com | Matthew Alexander | Posted 11.30.2008 | World

Read More: American Interrogator, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, U.S. Military, U.S. Air Force, Zarqawi, Torture United States, Iraq, Waterboarding, General Petraeus, Suicide Bombers, War in Iraq, Iraqi Insurgents, Iraqi Militants, Torture, World News

I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfull...

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Kristol Calls On Bush To Pardon Torturers And Wiretappers

Think Progress | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Bill Kristol, Torture, Wiretapping, Weekly Standard, Bush Pardons, Politics News

In his new Weekly Standard column, right-wing pundit Bill Kristol lays out a to-do list for President Bush before he leaves office. He urges Bush to d...

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Gitmo Gotcha, You Betcha

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Surveillance, Nsa, Civil Rights, Terrorism, Wiretapping, Torture, Gitmo, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Waterboarding, Extrajudicial Renditions, Detention Without Trial, Suspension of H, Yaser Esam, Extrajudicial Detention, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Illegal conduct implemented at Gitmo has now metastasized to the shores of the United States. Where is the outrage?

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No Soup For Yoo: Our Right to Refuse Service to the Constitution's Torturers

David Quigg | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Dark Side, War on Terror, Cia, Terrorism, Jack Goldsmith, Guantanamo, George Bush, John Yoo, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Enhanced Interrogations, Alberto Mora, Waterboarding, Jane Mayer, David Addington, Torture, Politics News

Reading The Dark Side, as I just have, forces a stomach-turning, jaw-clenching reckoning with Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, CIA kidnappings, secret prisons, waterboarding, and a shameful list of other soul-shattering abuses.

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Game. Set. Match. Obama.

Shannyn Moore | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Litmus Test, Supreme Court, John McCain, John Paul Roberts, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Exxon Valdez, Habeas Corpus, Us Constitution, Roe v. Wade, Katie Couric, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Samuel Alito, Military Commissions Act of 2006, Waterboarding, Torture, Politics News

McCain's outright mockery of the health and life of the mother as being a legitimate reason for termination was deplorable. How dare he!?

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New DOD Interrogation Guidelines: No Waterboarding, No Dogs

Think Progress | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Defense, Cia, War Wire, Prisonner Abuse, Waterboarding, Dogs, Torture, Politics News

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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Sacramento GOP Removes "Waterboard Obama" Graphic From Website

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fear Watch 2008, Hate Speech, Waterboarding, Barack Obama, Torture, Politics News

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

Read More: Anorexia, Anti-Obama T-Shirt, Fox News, Waterboarding, Anorexic Models, T-Shirts, Anorexia Models, Osama, Media News

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

Read More: John McCain Lies, Issues, John McCain, Oil Tax Breaks, Palin Bridge to Nowhere, Rick Davis, George W. Bush, Governing Vision, James Carville, McCain Offshore Drilling, Lipstick on a Pig, 2008 Election, Mccain Spain, Oil Companies, Randall Scheunemann, Barack Obama, Palin Teleprompter, Obama Celebrity, Abu Ghraib, Iraq Intelligence, Iraq War, George Will on Mccain, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Sarah Palin, Oil Prices, Guantanamo Bay, Jimmy Carter, Hurricane Katrina, Waterboarding, Constitution, Pailn Pregnant Daugther, Politics News

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

Read More: John McCain Lies, Sarah Palin Vice President, John McCain, Waterboarding, Lipstick on a Pig, Mccain Flip-Flop, John McCain 2008, Politics News

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

Read More: Art, Politics, Waterboarding, Waterboarding Thrill Ride, Entertainment News

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

Read More: Torture, CIA Torture, Justice Department, Waterboarding, Cia Waterboarding, Politics News

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

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Cia, Waterboarding Torture, Counterterrorism, Abu Zubaydah, CIA Torture, Secret CIA Prisons, Waterboarding, Cia Waterboarding, White House Torture, Al Qaeda, Torture, Politics News

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

Read More: Guantanamo Detainees, Al-Qaeda, Abdul Rahim Al-Nashiri, Terrorism, David Hicks, Uss Cole Bombing, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Gen. Michael Hayden, Military Commissions, Politics News

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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Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens Undergoes Waterboarding

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Waterboarding, Vanity Fair Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens Waterboarding, Christopher Hitchens, Torture, Media News

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

Read More: CIA Kidnapping, Milt Bearden, CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Cia Waterboarding, Detainee Torture, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News

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

Read More: Constitutional Law, War on Terror, Terrorism, Attorney General, Waterboarding, Constitution, Boumediene v. Bush, Habeas Corpus, Torture, Politics News

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

Read More: Boston College Graduation Speaker, Law Enforcement, Boston College, Michael Mukasey, Waterboarding, John Yoo, Politics News

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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