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Cheney Lied About CIA Torture Effectiveness

By Unstable Isotope February 24, 20101 Comment

In Cheney's mind, he's a courageous patriot who's not afraid to get things done. Cheney thinks that terrorists will be scared of the U.S. if only we'd torture more and…

Sunday Funnies

By nemski August 30, 20091 Comment

Some Sunday comics for your amusement.

Torture Still Doesn’t Work

By Unstable Isotope August 25, 200917 Comments

What a surprise - the declassified document that Cheney says proves the effectiveness of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" (and the rest of the world calls torture) doesn't prove Cheney's point…

Breaking: AG to Appoint Special Prosecutor to Investigate Torture

By El Somnambulo August 24, 200942 Comments

About bleeping time! From the Washington Post: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors…

CIA Report on Torture Release Delayed

By Unstable Isotope June 21, 20093 Comments

All I can say is that I can't wait to see this report. I wonder if the revelations that KSM said he lied a lot is a leak from this…

Yoo Ordered To Testify In Court

By Unstable Isotope June 14, 20097 Comments

A federal judge has ordered John Yoo to testify in a case of alleged torture of Jose Padilla, according to the New York Times. A federal judge has ruled that…

Lakhdar Boumediene Speaks

By Unstable Isotope June 9, 200914 Comments

Lakhdar Boumediene was held for 7.5 years in Guatanamo without being convicted of a crime. He was finally released by a federal judge. ABC's Jake Tapper interviewed Boumediene and he…

Cheney: Saddam/Al Qaeda Link? Uh, Never Mind

By El Somnambulo June 2, 20092 Comments

All the carnage. All the lives destroyed. All the billions shoveled down the rat-hole. All of this based on a lie. A lie that Dick Cheney now admits: June 1…

Why Don’t I Watch The View?

By pandora May 18, 200910 Comments

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTuEFQG4Yj4[/youtube] I know they get painted as fluff, but I remember them asking the tough questions during the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Question(s) of the Day

By El Somnambulo May 18, 200921 Comments

Why is the press focusing more on what Nancy Pelosi might or might not have been briefed on than on what war criminals Cheney, Bush, and their malodorous malefactors might…

Quote of the Day

By nemski May 14, 200912 Comments

Like most Americans, we have not yet seen the images [new torture photos] and don't know what they'll portray. But until they're made public, they seem likely only to inflame…

“It’s easier to hit somebody than outsmart them.”

By cassandra_m May 14, 200915 Comments

This was the response today of the FBI interrogator Ali Soufan to Sen Lindsay Graham's quip that waterboarding must work since it has been around for hundreds of years. That…

Point and Laugh for 4/24

By nemski April 24, 200921 Comments

Dana says that our enemies do worse, so torture is okay. A commenter who shows some common sense says: When I was six years old, Dana, my mother taught me…