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Report Won't Recommend Torture Charges - CBS News »
Posted by: orndorffter 6 months, 1 week ago in News
The Justice Department inquiry in the authors of controversial memos authorizing "enhanced interrogation" techniques is coming to a close. (CBS)
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This Modern World | Salon Comics »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
Once upon a time, the citizens of a large nation turned into monsters ...
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Mancow: Waterboarding Gave Me Chest Pains »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann had conservative radio host Eric “Mancow” Muller on his show Tuesday, and questioned him about his experience with waterboarding, which Mancow ...
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Across The Divide »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
On Fox News, waterboarding someone 183 times in a month is not even close to torture, and the only bad thing in constructing and using ...
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Feds Didn’t Even Bother to Check History of Torture Methods »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Cheney’s theory of executive power rests on the notion that only the executive can be trusted to protect national security—that the courts and ...
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No Prosecution for"Waterboarding"Legally and Morally Reprehensible »
Posted by: bruhaha 6 months, 4 weeks ago in News
President Obama's statement reported this afternoon by the New York Times that his administration would not be prosecuting CIA operatives responsible for "waterboarding" prisoners ...
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NY Foreign Policy Examiner: The US, torture and the waterboarding issue...and then, there's Dick Cheney »
Posted by: Sasha56 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Something extraordinary happened today, and it was caught on tape. A conservative talk show host, Erich "Mancow " Muller of Chicago's Big 89, WLS-AM Mancow ...
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To torture, or not to torture »
Posted by: mhughes35 6 months ago in Political News
Do the benefits of waterboarding outweigh any negative consequences that may arise as a result of it? Does waterboarding help the U.S. achieve its ...
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Obama defends secret memo release to CIA employees »
Posted by: Progressive 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
WASHINGTON - Days after releasing top-secret memos that detailed the CIA's use of simulated drowning while interrogating terror suspects, President Barack Obama went to the ...
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Watching MSNBC Is Torture - HUMAN EVENTS »
Posted by: pc25 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The media wail about "torture," but are noticeably short on facts.
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Liberals try to disguise the utter wussification of our interrogation techniques by constantly prattling ...Read (273) | Share | Discuss (19) | Read Full Story at humanevents.com
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Was Rape an Enhanced Interrogation Technique? »
Posted by: populist 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
If it turns out that the secret photos and videos do show that people were being raped pursuant to the Bush administration’s enhanced interrogation ...
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Cheney's Jihad »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
Of the terrorists, alleged and otherwise, cited by the CIA inspector general as being fingered by KSM during his coercive interrogations, only Ohio truck driver ...
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The NYT And "Torture": A Brief Recent History »
Posted by: tehranchik 5 months ago in Political News
The latest NYT euphemism for torture is "intense interrogation," another plausible translation of the Gestapo term, "verschaerfte Vernehmung", for torture that broke no bones, drew ...
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Dick and Liz Cheney Tag Team the Constitution »
Posted by: capj71 2 months, 1 week ago in Political News
After the Obama administration announced an investigation into the CIA’s interrogation tactics, both Dick and Liz Cheney returned to the Sunday morning talk shows ...
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OLC Interpretation Would Allow Waterboarding of U.S. Citizens »
Posted by: Progressive 6 months ago in Political News
Former State Department adviser Philip Zelikow at this morning's Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing testified that when he saw the so-called torture memos written ...
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