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Leon Panetta’s CIA : Getting Away With Torture
CIA Director Leon Panetta at his ceremonial swearing-in on Feb. 19, 2009. Photo by Jonathan Ernst / Reuters.Hope Abandoned:Obama Protects CIA Torture Memos By Chris Floyd / April 11, 2009 It was obvious from the moment that Barack Obama appointed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Legacy, CIA, Leon Panetta, Obama Administration, Torture, War Crimes
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Medicine and Torture: Bad Bedfellows
Handcuffs sit at the foot of a chair used for interrogation inside a cell in the maximum security Camp 5 at Camp Delta on May 9, 2006 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images.U.S. Medical Personnel and Interrogations: What … Continue reading
The Torture Party
Cartoon by Ralph Solonitz / The Rag Blog
Dems Are Complicit If They Don’t Prosecute
Read the Nuremburg Principles !! The Democrats and anyone who is unwilling to condemn and prosecute those responsible for what has happened at US hands are complicit in the crime. Give us justice, you immoral cretins politicians !! Richard Jehn … Continue reading
Many Innocents Still at Guantanamo — Will Obama Make It Right?
See A Prison of Words by Noah Feldman below. Ex-Bush Official to AP: Many at Gitmo Are InnocentMarch 19, 2009 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A former Bush administration official says many Guantanamo detainees are innocent, and have been held … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, Torture, War Crimes
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The Problem Is That the Democrats Will Implicate Themselves If There Are Prosecutions for Torture
“I Was Only Following Orders!” Being serious about torture. Or not.By William Blum / March 5, 2009 In Cambodia they’re once again endeavoring to hold trials to bring some former senior Khmer Rouge officials to justice for their 1975-79 war … Continue reading
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Tagged Crimes Against Humanity, Criminal Justice, Torture, War Crimes
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American Crimes Against Humanity Slowly See the Light of Day
Former Guantánamo prison guard Brandon Neely has come forward to air his feelings of guilt about how he and some soldiers treated the prisoners shortly after 9/11.Photo: Pat Sullivan/AP.Ex-Gitmo guard describes abuseBy Mike Melia / February 15, 2009 SAN JUAN, … Continue reading
This Is How the US Conducts Foreign Policy
Binyam Mohamed See video below. Letters prove US warningBy Paola Totaro / February 7, 2009 A FLURRY of letters between the British Foreign Office and the US State Department has revealed that Washington did threaten to withdraw intelligence-sharing with Britain … Continue reading
U.S. Law : Those Who Authorized Torture MUST Be Prosecuted
Attorney General-designate Eric Holder (shown testifying at hearings on Capitol Hill):”No one is above the law.” Photo by Evan Vucci / AP. It’s rather difficult to understand how people think that we’re going to ‘send a message to the world’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Administration, Criminal Justice, Eric Holder, Torture, War Crimes
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Bush/Cheney : The Makeover and the Two Myths
Torture saved us and the surge worked. Not.By Robert Parry As George W. Bush and Dick Cheney make their case for some positive legacy from the past eight years, two arguments are playing key roles: the notion that torturing terror … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bush Legacy, Bush Presidency, Cheney, George W. Bush, The Presidency, The Surge, Torture, War on Terror
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From Those Who Know : Torture Just Doesn’t Work
Artist: Fernando Botero / truthout.Tortured reasoning: The tactical errors of prisoner abuse.By David Rose George W. Bush defended harsh interrogations by pointing to intelligence breakthroughs, but a surprising number of counterterrorist officials say that, apart from being wrong, torture just … Continue reading
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Tagged Abu Ghraib, Bush Administration, Bush Legacy, CIA, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Interrogation Techniques, Terrorism, Torture, US Intelligence, War on Terror
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Keith Olbermann Special Comment : ‘Mr. President, You are Wrong.’
Keith Olbermann, Special Comment, Countdown, April 16, 2009 U.S. future depends on torture accountability We cannot let mistakes of the past haunt our future. By Keith Olbermann / April 16, 2009 [The following was delivered as a “Special Comment” by … Continue reading →