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Morality Isn’t Free »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
I had a number of thoughts over the weekend about the ongoing torture debate—and in particular the historical turn it seems to have taken ...
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FBI Interrogator: Bush Told Half Truths about Zubaydah Interrogation »
Posted by: capj71 6 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Former FBI interrogator Ali Soufan, the man who led the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, testified before Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, and revealed that President Bush told ...
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CIA doctors face human experimentation claims »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Human experimentation without consent has been prohibited in any setting since 1947, when the Nuremberg Code, which resulted from the prosecution of Nazi doctors, set ...
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Torture Hearing: What Did We Learn? »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
So, what came out of today's hearings on torture?
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* Perhaps the main piece of news came when Philip Zelikow, the former top State Department ...Read (152) | Share | Discuss (3) | Read Full Story at tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com
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O’Reilly defends torture:‘Look, if it were illegal, Bush and Cheney would have been arrested.’ »
Posted by: tehranchik 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly has always been one of the most outspoken defenders of torture, declaring there’s “certainly no proof” that “mistreatment ...
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Water Torture »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
16 March 2009 There has been much discussion recently about what constitutes torture. Between research/travel in preparation for a return to Afghanistan and Iraq ...
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Hoekstras Office: Hes Seen Documents That Prove Pelosi Was Briefed On Waterboarding »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
GOP Rep. Pete Hoekstra is upping the stakes of the torture fight in response to Nancy Pelosi’s claims that she wasn’t briefed on ...
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You're Fired! CIA Axes $1000-A-Day Waterboarding Experts »
Posted by: rumple4skin 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The CIA has reportedly cut its ties to the two psychologists credited for being the architects of the CIA's brutal interrogation program after 9 ...
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Who's going to prosecute the torture cases »
Posted by: tehranchik 10 months ago in Political News
You're free to believe that Eric Holder didn't know, when he said flat-out at his confirmation hearing that waterboarding is torture, that doing ...
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YouTube - Torture Song »
Posted by: dissent 6 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
"The Happy U.S. Torturer."
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Accountability for Torture »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months ago in Political News
There are other routes to accountability. New York's Jerrold Nadler, who chairs the House subcommittee on the Constitution, proposes appointing a special counsel. As ...
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Craig Murray - Trying Again to Stop Torture: My Formal Statement for the Joint Committee on Human Rights »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months ago in Political News
My name is Craig Murray. I was British Ambassador in Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004.
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War Crimes, Past and Present »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
I realize it’s probably not a position taken often at the offices of the Weekly Standard, but the suggestion that the bombings of Hiroshima ...
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100 Days Presser: Flubbing Churchill-Does anyone in the White House actually do research? »
Posted by: pc25 7 months ago in News
Last night, Jake Tapper asked Barack Obama about enhanced interrogation techniques, and Obama firmly stated that he thinks waterboarding is torture — although he doesn’t ...
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Wanda Sykes Takes on Sean Hannitys Promise to be Waterboarded »
Posted by: capj71 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Comedian Wanda Sykes performed at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, and while she did a great job poking fun at the Obama’s some ...
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