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Waterboarding: It was Done in Your Name

Christopher Hitchens, a writer for Vanity Fair magazine, underwent waterboarding to experience it for himself firsthand. What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the...

Posted on July 3, 2008 6:10 PM

White House Involved in Destruction of Evidence

There was a court order in place to protect this evidence, and now we know the White House was involved in the decision to destroy the tapes. [Note - The White House has released a statement on this issue -...

Posted on December 19, 2007 12:30 PM

WaterBoarding is Torture and Bush Should Go To Jail

Keith Olbermann makes a strong argument for those conclusions on November 5, 2007 in this MSNBC commentary on waterboarding and Bush's criminality. Attorney General nominee Mukasey's recent avoidance of the question speaks volumes to the culpability of this administration's actions....

Posted on November 6, 2007 7:00 PM

Evidence Under False Confession, Coercion and Torture Proving Embarrassing

A hat tip to Kevin Drum, today and yesterday, for drawing attention in three posts, to two similar stories on the repercussions of 9/11, and the Bushies zeal to rein in, prosecute and if need be railroad whomever fits the...

Posted on October 22, 2007 6:40 PM

The Black Sites. A Rare Look Inside the C.I.A.'s Secret Interrogation Program

Remember what Bush said when for the first time, (after much denial) he acknowledged the existence of secret CIA prisons around the world, back in September 2006. "We have to have the capacity to interrogate -- not torture, but interrogate...

Posted on August 8, 2007 5:15 PM

Torture in Kurdish Iraq

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has issued a report detailing torture and other human rights abuses in Kurdish Iraq at the hands of the Kurdish security forces known as Asayish: During interviews at Asayish detention facilities, detainees told Human Rights...

Posted on July 4, 2007 6:00 AM

Scholars Urge Bush to End Torture

MSNBC story: President Bush was presented with a letter Monday signed by 50 high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program urging a halt to "violations of the human rights" of terror suspects held by the United States. The...

Posted on June 26, 2007 8:00 AM

How Cheney Legalized Torture

Washington Post story (Part 2 of 4): David S. Addington, Cheney's general counsel, set the new legal agenda in a blunt memorandum shortly after the CIA delegation returned to Langley. Geneva's "strict limits on questioning of enemy prisoners," he wrote...

Posted on June 25, 2007 8:00 AM

Is Torture "Wrong?"

Jay Tea post on Wizbang Classic: Yesterday, I wrote a pretty lengthy piece about torture, in response to a typically asshatted column by Glenn Greenwald (or, perhaps, ghost-written by "Rick Ellensberg," "Ellison," "Thomas Ellers," or "Ryan," or some new pseudonym)...

Posted on June 4, 2007 6:00 PM

Glenn Greenwald on Torture

The incomparable Glenn Greenwald absolutely eviscerates the Republicans on torture. I encourage you to click through and read the whole story. Here some choice excerpts: The "conservative base" in the last GOP presidential debate reserved their cheers for Mitt Romeny's...

Posted on June 2, 2007 4:00 AM

America First, errr, Second!

Glenn Greenwald offers an interesting perspective on the Right Wing Blogosmear's (over)reaction to a recent poll showing a small percentage of young American Muslims believe suicide bombings are justifiable: Today's anti-Muslim warrior ritual is based upon nothing more substantial than...

Posted on May 23, 2007 1:25 PM

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