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salon.com - 1/18/2009

Binding U.S. law requires prosecutions for those who authorize torture - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — (updated below - Update II) It seems fairly easy -- even for those overtly hostile to the... basic rules of logic and law -- to see what conclusions are compelled by these clear premises: Associated Press, April 11, 2008 : Bush administration officials ... (more) Binding U.S. law requires prosecutions for those who ...

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salon.com - 1/8/2009

America then and now - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — (updated below - Update II) Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal... and in the Judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Adopted by the International Law Commission of the United Nations, 1950 : Principle I Any ... (more) America then and now - Glenn Greenwald

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Hullabaloo — ... Greenwald hits the nail on the head: the members of the political establishment are all complicit. It hadn't occurred to me that they were frantic to ensure that torture is removed from the realm of taboo because they all advocated breaking it. I should have realized that if these people had publicly indulged themselves in violent expressions of primitive bloodlust, one can only imagine what they must have been saying to each other in private. They have to excuse the torture and insist that it was necessary because they've all told each other for years that was ...

Krazy Bill Kristol heads to WaPo
The Reaction — ... (and is a pretty awful pundit generally), David Broder (twice-weekly), the so-called "dean" of the Washington press corps, is a GOP-friendly centrist, if not right-leaning altogether, David Ignatius (twice-weekly) is an establishmentarian insider, and Robert Samuelson (weekly) is a right-leaning economist. ...

NPR's Ombudsman: Why We Bar the Word 'Torture'
Commondreams.org Views — ... choice, NPR has opted to be "seen siding with the White House and the language that some U.S. officials, particularly in the Bush administration, prefer."  That, too, is an odd choice for a supposedly Liberal Media outlet.  And note her snide and revealing assumption -- conventional wisdom among the establishment media -- that the only people who want these tactics to be called "torture" are those "who are particularly and visibly still angry at the previous administration" (or, as David Ignatius put it , "liberal score-settlers"). It doesn't seem to occur to her that ...