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Leahy: See, I Told You We Needed to Investigate Torture
Politics Daily —
... to a suspect but wasn't considered torture because there was no evidence it caused lasting mental harm), keeping detainees naked for some time, making them stand in stress positions. But others include slamming them into walls, keeping their cells cold, prolongued shackling, and putting an insect into a detainee's "confinement box." The techniques were used on 14 high-level suspected terrorists. The Atlantic has the memos here. ...
Torture Memos Released
Ace of Spades HQ —
Torture Memos Released If you're curious. Expect a lot of panting about how awful all this is, and how wonderful it is to have a squeamish daffodil of a commander in chief. Posted by: ...
Obama Won’t Prosecute CIA Agents for Waterboarding
Stop The ACLU —
... suspects… Holder said in a statement Thursday it would be unfair to prosecute CIA employees for following the legal advice given at the time. And he says the government will defend any CIA employee in any court action brought in the U.S. or overseas. “This is a time for reflection, not retribution,” President Barack Obama said in a statement. Maybe the ACLU should run a full page ad in the New York Times? Yeah, right. Oooh…extra credit for folks board enough to comb through the torture memos Obama released . You can bet Glenn Greenwald will be burning the midnight oil to put ...
Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog —
Obama releases DOJ interrogation memos.
At White House's request, "Christian symbol covered up during Obama’s Georgetown speech."
Hundreds of thousands attended tea party protests.
"Only five state residents contribute to Dodd"
Napolitano stands by DHS report on right-wing extremism.
Bond upset that people know the US tortured detainees, not that the US tortured detainees
Fired Up! Missouri —
... to make friends," Bond said.
Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, dismisses Bond's protests:
I don't think and the president doesn't believe it's the existence of enhanced interrogation techniques in memos that has made us less safe...It's the use of those techniques in the view of the world that has made us less safe. And that's precisely why the president moved swiftly to end [their use]...
You can read the torture memos yourself here.
Bond's statement about their release is here. ...
