news.bbc.co.uk - 4/21/2009
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Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney has urged the CIA to release memos which he says show harsh interrogation techniques such as water-boarding work. His comments follow the publication of memos written by Bush administration lawyers which justified the techniques. Mr Cheney said that the ...
online.wsj.com - 4/23/2009
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online.wsj.com —
PETER HOEKSTRA Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair
got it right last week when he noted how...
easy it is to condemn the enhanced interrogation program "on a bright sunny day in April 2009." Reactions to this former CIA program, which was used ...
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Congress Knew About the Interrogations
propublica.org - 4/22/2009
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propublica.org —
ProPublica Last week, we pointed out that one
of the newly released Bush-era memos inadvertently confirmed that...
the CIA held an al-Qaeda suspect named Hassan Ghul in a secret prison and subjected him to what Bush administration lawyers called ...
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Dozens of Prisoners Held by CIA Still Missing, Fates Unknown
propublica.org - 4/22/2009
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propublica.org —
ProPublica The CIA has not released the names
of terrorism suspects it held in secret detention with...
the exception of 14 who were transferred to Guantanamo Bay, in September 2006. Human rights groups have tried to track those identities using publicly ...
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List of Likely CIA Prisoners Who Are Still Missing
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99 bottles of beer on the wall...
WTF Is It Now?!? —
Proving that torture works -- hell, just ask John McCain! -- 2 prisoners were waterboarded 266 times by the CIA. Two people. Two. Waterboarded 266 times. Bush's CIA interrogators used waterboarding, the near-drowning technique that top Obama administration officials have described as illegal torture, 266 times on two ...
Clinton on Cheney: 'It won't surprise you that I don't consider him a particularly reliable source.'
Think Progress —
... " on matters related to detainee torture and mistreatment. Rohrabacher had asked Clinton whether she supported the release of documents that Cheney recently claimed documented the "successes" that came out of the Bush administration's torture program: ...
Terrorism and moral torture
Belmont Club —
... that the cruel abuse of terrorist detainees was something we could never countenance - not just because torture is illegal, unreliable, and a threat to the innocent, but because it is one of those practices that a civilized society cannot engage in without undermining its right to call itself civilized. Torture very often does work. When Dick Cheney “urged the CIA to release memos which he says show harsh interrogation techniques such as water-boarding work,” according to the BBC , he acted with the certain knowledge that certain al-Qaeda members spilled the beans under ...
Boehner: I Only Want To Declassify Those Documents That Help My Party And Me Politically
Think Progress —
... referenced in a recent interview by former Vice President Dick Cheney, claiming that the memos could show that the Bush administration's torture program was ...
Obama administration turns down Cheney declassification request.
Think Progress —
... of CIA documents supposedly showing that the Bush administration’s torture program produced valuable intelligence and protected the U.S. against terrorist attacks. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) responded yesterday, saying, “Nothing I have seen — including the two documents to which former ...
Obama administration turns down Cheney declassification request.
The Hollywood Liberal —
... of CIA documents supposedly showing that the Bush administration’s torture program produced valuable intelligence and protected the U.S. against terrorist attacks. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) responded yesterday, saying, “Nothing I have seen — including the two documents to which former ...
Constitutional Stockholm Syndrome
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely —
... still hard to disagree with that sentence.
Then there's the delusional statement from the rapist/kidnapper:
“The last several years, I completely turned my life around and you’re going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, from the victim,” he said. “If you take a step at a time, you’re going to find the most powerful heart-warming story revealing something that used to be understood.”
Sounds like a certain ex-Vice President:
"One of the things that I find a little bit ...
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Cheney Doubles Down on ‘torture’ memos.
moelane.com 4/21/2009 — Release them all.
(Via Andrew Malcolm) Former Vice President Dick Cheney has indicated that last week’s disclosure / distraction involving four CIA ‘torture’ memos is critically incomplete, as it fails to give results. He wants the ...
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About Those "Torture Memos"
powerlineblog.com 4/17/2009 — The Obama administration has made public four memos that were authored by the Justice Department between 2002 and 2005, in which lawyers from DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel responded to requests by the CIA for legal opinions as to whether harsh ...
Not To Tell Cheney How To Do His Job, But...
justoneminute.typepad.com 4/25/2009 — Cheney's request to the National Archives for CIA files related to the effectiveness of the enhanced interrogation program has been released. Per Greg Sargent, he is only asking for two files totaling twenty one pages: One is dated July 13th,...
Cheney Now All About the Openness: Ain’t No Half Stepping
attackerman.firedoglake.com 4/22/2009 — The avatar of secrecy really did say this last night . My colleague Daphne Eviatar puts together a wish list :
[I]f there are memos showing that torture and the CIA’s other “extreme” interrogation techniques were successful, I’d like to see ...
So Much Torture Disclosure to Be Had
washingtonindependent.com 4/21/2009 — Former Vice President Dick Cheney — the avatar of secrecy — really did say this last night . Daphne puts together a wish list : [I]f there are memos showing that torture and the CIA’s other “extreme” interrogation techniques were successful, I’d like ...
Cheney Doubles Down on ‘torture’ memos. - Moe_Lane’s blog
redstate.com 4/21/2009 — (Via Andrew Malcolm ) Former Vice President Dick Cheney has indicated that last week’s disclosure / distraction involving four CIA ‘torture’ memos is critically incomplete, as it fails to give results. He wants the full story released: “One of the ...
CIA got Cheney's request today —
First Read 4/21/2009
From NBC's Andrea MitchellThe Cheney transition office says that the former VP made the request to the National Archives to declassify the CIA documents on March 31st, and the Archives confirmed on April 8th that they had forwarded the request to the ...
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