timesonline.co.uk - 1/12/2009
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Of all the Bush administration policies that Obama was supposed to change, the torture programme was, for many of Obama s core supporters, at the top of the list. Yes, we kept being told by the Bush spinners that this wasn t torture as such. We don t torture, President Bush told the world with a ...
swampland.blogs.time.com - 1/13/2009
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swampland.blogs.time.com —
A number of readers have taken me to
task for not calling for the prosecution of George...
Bush et al for war crimes. Glenn Greenwald has now piled on . Let me say this: I would have no moral, legal or spiritual problem with the Obama Administration ...
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More on Torture
thinkprogress.org - 1/15/2009
time.com - 1/14/2009
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time.com —
Every time the Bush Administration is accused of
torture, the response from the White House is immediate...
and unequivocal. When the New York Times reported on its front page Thursday that the Justice Department had issued a secret legal opinion in ...
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Bush's Dangerous Torture(d) Stance
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