andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 4/25/2009
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This is vital, because it reveals just how bad a card Cheney has to play in protecting himself from being prosecuted as a war criminal. The CIA inspector general's report found no evidence that torture had given any information that would not have been found using legal and moral means. Even ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 4/24/2009
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blogs.abcnews.com —
In a letter from the Justice Department to
a federal judge yesterday, the Obama administration announced that...
the Pentagon would turn over to the American Civil Liberties Union 44 photographs showing detainee abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq ...
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Obama Administration to Release Detainee Abuse Photos; ...
mcclatchydc.com - 4/25/2009
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mcclatchydc.com —
WASHINGTON — The CIA inspector general in 2004
found that there was no conclusive proof that waterboarding...
or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any "specific imminent attacks," according to ...
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CIA official: no proof harsh techniques stopped terror ...
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 4/24/2009
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theplumline.whorunsgov.com —
I’ve just obtained from the National Archives the
actual request form that Dick Cheney submitted for CIA...
documents he claims will prove that torture worked. Cheney requested all of two CIA documents, a total of 21 pages. You can look at ...
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Obtained: Cheney’s Request Form Detailing The Two CIA ...
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Andrew Sullivan - Dishonest, Or Just Dumb?
JustOneMinute —
Andrew Sullivan seizes on a repackaging of yesterday's news to inform the world that the absence of proof equals the absence of evidence. Just for starters, this will surely simplify the global warming debate - since the IPCC is the first to admit that they cannot prove that humans are contributing to global warming, we can now apply Sully-Logic to conclude that there is no evidence of any human influence at all, and nothing to talk about. Andrew Sullivan, global warming denier - who knew? From the Daily Deep Thinker: And the inspiration for that absurd claim, ...
John Wellington Ennis: Torture Finally Broke Them
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... reminding how Reagan vowed to punish torturers, to Andrew Sullivan overwhelmed by the current case for war crimes. From American interrogators on the flaws of coercion, such as the ...
The Importance Of Investigating Torture
Wonk Room —
... cases. If anything, the politicization of the Justice Department during the Bush years is to blame for the need for further investigation to ensure that the decision not to prosecute was justified.
Leaving aside why Cheney continues to be treated as a remotely credible voice on these issues, given both his major role in facilitating the abuses being investigated and his extensively documented enthusiasm for saying things that are not true, as Ken Gude demonstrated ...
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Don't Kill the CIA
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emptywheel.firedoglake.com 5/16/2009 —
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politics.theatlantic.com 4/17/2009 — The Justice Department today
released four internal memorandums that supplied the legal basis for the
program of torture and aggressive interrogation techniques used at so-called
CIA "Black Sites" during the Bush administration and, at the same time, ...
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First Read 4/24/2009
The New York Times profiles Dick Cheney. “Former President George W. Bush has said that Mr. Obama ‘deserves my silence,’ but Mr. Cheney, who told Mr. Hannity he has spoken with Mr. Bush just once since leaving office, does not share that view. ‘I ...
McCain differs with Cheney on interrogation memos —
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