Tag: torture

FOX’s Shep Smith Talks Torture

Filed in National by on April 22, 2009 13 Comments

I won’t ruin the surprise.  Just watch the video. (NSFW)  Bet that little warning caught your attention! Here’s a longer version of the video.  Shep’s days at FOX may be numbered.  Listen to the examples he cites in reference to cherrry picking information.  Color me impressed.

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McClatchy Papers: Bush Pushed Torture to Find Iraq-Al Qaida Link

Filed in National by on April 22, 2009 13 Comments

A link which, of course, never existed.  In other words, Bush/Cheney et al were so intent on getting evidence to justify their misbegotten war in Iraq that they approved torture in order to find it: WASHINGTON — The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find […]

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If You’re Okay With Water Boarding Then…

Filed in International by on April 21, 2009 4 Comments

… Would you understand if the Iranians water boarded Roxana Saberi? Reporting from Cairo and Tehran — An Iranian American journalist accused of spying for the U.S. was sentenced Saturday by an Iranian court to eight years in prison, a move likely to put a chill on the Obama administration’s efforts to improve relations with […]

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A Modest Proposal

Filed in National by on April 21, 2009 15 Comments

Mr Cheney, I hereby challenge you to a test of torture.  Over the course of a few days, I will have trained professionals administer enhanced interrogation techniques to you.  You will be subjected to nothing stronger than we have subjected the detainees that we have held in the War on Terror to.  You will be […]

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Done and Released

Filed in National by on April 16, 2009 33 Comments

The Obama Administration certainly did the right thing today by releasing the Torture Memos today. (The link is to Salon, and you may have to sit through an ad.) They note that no CIA staff involved with torture will be prosecuted. The ACLU has uploaded pdfs of each memo here. It will take abit to […]

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Bush Lawyers to Be Held Accountable?

Filed in National by on February 19, 2009 5 Comments

This article from Michael Isikoff in Newsweek provides a glimmer of hope: “An internal Justice Department report on the conduct of senior lawyers who approved waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics is causing anxiety among former Bush administration officials. H. Marshall Jarrett, chief of the department’s ethics watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility(OPR), confirmed […]

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Torture Has Not Kept Us Safer

Filed in National by on December 23, 2008 7 Comments

So says Robert Mueller in Vanity Fair: I ask Mueller: So far as he is aware, have any attacks on America been disrupted thanks to intelligence obtained through what the administration still calls “enhanced techniques”? “I’m really reluctant to answer that,” Mueller says. He pauses, looks at an aide, and then says quietly, declining to […]

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