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Calling Your Bluff, Joe. Put Up or Shut Up.
dailykos.com - 1/15/2009
Calling Your Bluff, Joe. Put Up or Shut Up.
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The theme gets wider and deeper by the day. Cheney , Bush, Duncan Hunter , Karl Rove , Bill O'Reilly , William McGurn and a multitude of others all say torture works. They hint, or say directly, that Barack Obama would be foolish to give it up. They declare this would put America at risk of ...

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The Consequences of Torture
Comments from Left Field — The advocates for torture in the Bush administration were so convinced it was the only way to get actionable intelligence in the misnamed “war on terror” that they never considered basing an interrogation program on any other methods and never asked themselves how evidence gained through torture would affect the government’s ability to prosecute. Well, today, the judge responsible for deciding which Guantanamo cases will be brought to trial provided the answer: The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded ...

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