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Ashcroft can be sued over arrests, appeals court rules -- latimes.com »
Posted by: gamahuche 2 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft violated the rights of U.S. citizens in the fevered wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by ordering arrests on ...
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Binding U.S. law requires prosecutions for those who authorize torture - Glenn Greenwald »
Posted by: berkeley 10 months, 1 week ago in Political News
It seems fairly easy -- even for those overtly hostile to the basic rules of logic and law -- to see what conclusions are compelled by these ...
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Bush Personally Sent Card And Gonzo To Ashcroft's Hospital Bed »
Posted by: bluetexasvalley 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
The report goes into some detail about that famous visit made by Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales to then-AG John Ashcroft, when Ashcroft was in ...
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Innocent - John Walker Lindh »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The first American to get Abu-Ghraibed, long before Americans knew they were capable of such an exotic verb. The first to inspire Donald Rumsfeld to ...
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Why Didn't Ashcroft-the-Christian Stop The Torture? »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
When George W. Bush was running for President, Christians hoped that having a devout man in the White House would lead to more a more ...
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Remarks on Torture May Force New Administration?s Hand »
Posted by: berkeley 10 months, 1 week ago in News
Just 14 months ago, at his confirmation hearing, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey frustrated and angered some senators by refusing to state that waterboarding , the ...
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Appeals court rules against Ashcroft in 9/11 case - Yahoo! News »
Posted by: mmrhe 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
A federal appeals court has ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be sued by people who claim they were wrongfully detained as material ...
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I miss the old republican hacks »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
In her last TNRtv spot before heading off to Africa for two years, TNR associate editor Eve Fairbanks gives a musical farewell to TNR and ...
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Something is Wrong in America »
Posted by: kdawg1012 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Something is wrong in America and in a government of, by and for the people, we're the only ones who can make it right ...
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Soufan, Zelikow to Testify On Torture »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Whether or not House Democrats end up seeing the anti-torture memo that Philip Zelikow wrote while at the State Department in 2005, a Senate Judiciary ...
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We Don’t Torture … But Torture Does Work »
Posted by: populist 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
After all, isn’t this what people are saying about the torturers and those who authorized and ordered the torture? What’s the difference?
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Supreme Court blocks Sept. 11 detainee lawsuit »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 6 months, 1 week ago in News
The court, in a decision by Justice Anthony Kennedy , said the man failed to present sufficient information that would link Ashcroft and Mueller to mistreatment ...
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Ashcroft: Waterboarding Defines Many Things, Not Just One Thing »
Posted by: populist 8 months ago in Political News
Ashcroft: There are things that you could call waterboarding that I am firmly convinced are not torture. There are things that you could call waterboarding ...
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No Amnesty for Cheney et al, Say Torture Opponents »
Posted by: ameliog 12 months ago in Political News
Judging by the rare leaks from President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, investigations and prosecutions of high-level George W. Bush administration officials for torture and ...
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Cohn Returns to Sidley Austin »
Posted by: rogerj 9 months, 1 week ago in News
Jonathan Cohn, who recently stepped down as one the Justice Department’s top civil lawyers, is returning to Sidley Austin as a partner in the ...
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