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Why Bush's CIA Team Should Worry About Its Dark Embrace of Torture »
Posted by: berkeley 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
On the night of April 6, a long-secret document was published -- in its entirety for the first time -- that provided a clear, stark look at ...
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In America, Speaking the Truth is a Career-Ending Event »
Posted by: berkeley 10 months ago in Political News
When US military officers saw that torture was a policy coming down from the top, they knew that doing the right thing would cost them ...
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The Reality of Torture -- Dan Froomkin »
Posted by: berkeley 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
President Bush and Vice President Cheney would like you to believe that only a few left-wingers think the Bush administration's treatment of detainees amounted ...
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Fear was no excuse to condone torture »
Posted by: ameliog 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
In the fear that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Americans were told that defeating Al Qaeda would require us to ``take off the gloves ...
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YouTube - Tribute to the Fallen - Some Gave All »
Posted by: y_soitenly 6 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment
Tribute to the Americans who "gave all" in Iraq and Afghanistan since the start of hostilities. Pictures of 2,500 of the more than 3 ...
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Will anything about the U.S. torture scandal ever scandalize us again? - By Dahlia Lithwick »
Posted by: berkeley 7 months, 1 week ago in Political News
In April of 2004, the world first learned that American soldiers in Iraq had abused detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison. Images first revealed on ...
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More Cheney Truth-Squaddery »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Techniques in CPT Wood’s proposed policy can be traced back to the [Special Mission Unit Task Force] in Iraq to Afghanistan and, ultimately, to ...
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The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney »
Posted by: tehranchik 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Those singled out for blame include President George W. Bush (for stripping prisoners of the protections of the Geneva Conventions in February 2002, which paved ...
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The Cover-Up Continues »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month ago in Political Opinion
The Obama administration has clung for so long to the Bush administration’s expansive claims of national security and executive power that it is in ...
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New Evidence that Bush Administration Impeded 3 Investigations into Alleged Massacre of Up to 2,000 Prisoners in Afghanistan »
Posted by: berkeley 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has issued a call for a criminal probe in the wake of a major New York Times story with new ...
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AFGHANISTAN: Seven years after CIA abduction, prisoner still held without charge »
Posted by: berkeley 3 months ago in Political News
Seven years after being abducted from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by the CIA and shipped to the U.S. air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, Haji ...
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Six Questions for Karen Greenberg, Author of The Least Worst Place »
Posted by: tehranchik 9 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Karen Greenberg, the director of NYU’s Center on Law and Security, took a close-up look at the first hundred days in the life of ...
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UN expert criticizes US torture decision »
Posted by: berkeley 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
President Barack Obama's decision not to prosecute CIA operatives who used questionable interrogation practices violates international law, the U.N.'s top torture investigator ...
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Chilcot inquiry: Tony Blair decided on Iraq war a year before invasion - ambassador »
Posted by: berkeley 2 days, 12 hours ago in Political News
Tony Blair's government decided up to a year before the Iraq invasion that it was "a complete waste of time" to resist the US ...
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A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack »
Posted by: ameliog 2 days, 4 hours ago in Political Opinion
I've written many times before about how the anthrax attack played at least as large of a role as the 9/11 attack itself ...
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