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Records suggest Pelosi, others were told of harsh interrogations - Los Angeles Times »
Posted by: cowboygrandpa 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
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"Congressional leaders were briefed repeatedly on the CIA's use of severe interrogation methods on Al Qaeda suspects, according to new information released by ...Read (1430) | Share | Discuss (231) | Read Full Story at latimes.com
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The 13 people who made torture possible »
Posted by: FunnyBoyz 6 months, 1 week ago in News
The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it.
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BYE BYE PELOSI »
Posted by: pc25 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Dick Morris Unplugged - Bye Bye Pelosi. Commentary on Nancy Pelosi's slow destruction and inevitable demise.
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The Banality of Bush White House Evil »
Posted by: Beau7890 7 months ago in Political News
The ticking time bomb was not another potential Qaeda attack on America but the Bush administration’s ticking timetable for selling a war in Iraq ...
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Are Republicans Blackmailing Obama? »
Posted by: Progressive 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
If the president releases the Bush torture memos, Republicans are promising to "go nuclear" and filibuster his legal appointments. Scott Horton reports on a serious ...
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Obama to release OLC torture memos; promises no prosecutions for CIA officials - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com »
Posted by: ForrestPhelps 7 months, 1 week ago in News
In a just-released statement, Barack Obama announced that -- in response to an ACLU FOIA lawsuit -- he has ordered four key Bush-era torture memos released, and ...
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Champions of Torture »
Posted by: Spadecaller 7 months ago in Political News
Champions of Torture is a video featuring the recent discoveries obtained from the release of memoranda on detentions, interrogations, and warrantless wiretapping. The presentation identifies ...
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The Torturers' Manifesto »
Posted by: Beau7890 7 months, 1 week ago in Political News
To read the four newly released memos on prisoner interrogation written by George W. Bush's Justice Department is to take a journey into depravity ...
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The Politics of Liberal Amnesia »
Posted by: pc25 6 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
Nancy Pelosi is "pushing back" against charges that she was aware of -- and ACQUIESCED in -- the CIA's harsh interrogations of terrorist detainees nearly from ...
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Top Constitutional Scholar: Secret Bush Memos Amount to Treason »
Posted by: hyperbola 8 months ago in Political News
The memos lay the legal groundwork for the president to send the military to wage war against U.S. citizens; take them from their homes ...
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Cheney defends torture on Fox news »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months ago in Political News
Cheney's interview at his home in McLean, Va., came just hours before President Obama traveled to nearby Langley, Va., to offer CIA employees his ...
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Abu Ghraib Guards Say Memos Show They Were Scapegoats »
Posted by: AnteUp 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
When the photos of detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq surfaced in 2004, U.S. officials portrayed Army Pvt. Charles A. Graner ...
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Memos: CIA pushed limits on sleep deprivation »
Posted by: Progressive 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
A year after the Bush administration abandoned its harshest interrogation methods, CIA operatives used severe sleep deprivation tactics against a terror detainee in late 2007 ...
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Bob Cesca: The Tortured Logic of the Torture Superfans »
Posted by: Beau7890 7 months ago in Political News
Extrapolating what the torture superfans are suggesting, they appear to believe that in light of the threat of terrorism, any administration should be able to ...
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Rep. Jan Schakowsky: A Response to Hayden and Mukasey »
Posted by: Beau7890 7 months ago in Political News
No timid wimp is former CIA Director Michael Hayden. And he's not reluctant to tell you so. You can find out what a tough ...
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