voices.washingtonpost.com - 1/22/2009
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A majority of Americans in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll oppose the use of torture in terrorism investigations, backing Barack Obama's pledge that "under my administration, the United States does not torture." But there's an even split on whether he should investigate whether laws were ...
politico.com - 1/15/2009
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politico.com —
Obama arrived at the Washington Post headquarters today,
as covered in priceless pool report by the New
York Times Helene Cooper. After three and a half hours at his transition office, PEOTUS obama took another 6 minute ride through ...
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Obama at the Washington Post
voices.washingtonpost.com - 1/22/2009
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This poll proves beyond a doubt that most
Repukes are un-American scumbags. Who Would Jesus Torture? That's
a rhetorical question, Repuke morons. Jesus was against torture. As for the 28% of Democrats who support torture, SHAME ON YOU. You are NOT ...
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On Torture - Behind the Numbers
washingtonpost.com - 1/27/2009
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washingtonpost.com —
"The past is a foreign country; they do
things differently there." So goes an aphorism that needs
to be applied to the current debate over whether those who authorized and used torture should be prosecuted. In the very different country called Sept. ...
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Moving Past Torture
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Running On Torture
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
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Republicans don't have a ton of issues in which public opinion is on their side; they should press the argument that American policy on detainees in the War on Terror ought to consider the objections of Americans in places like Kansas, California, and South Carolina as much as it considers the objections of the editorial boards of Le Monde, Der Spiegel and the Guardian. How about an open debate then, eh? And just how certain are you the public is on your side? Hmmm? ...
"Center Right" America Opposes Torture "No Matter The Circumstances"
TalkLeft —
Via Glenn Greenwald, WaPo must have been shocked that their slanted poll question on torture did not produce a pro-torture result: Q. Obama has said that under his administration the United States will not use torture as part of the U.S. campaign against terrorism, no matter what the circumstance. Do you support this position not to use torture, or do you think there are cases in which the United States should consider torture against terrorism suspects? By a wide margin -- 58-40% -- Americans say that torture should ...
America Rejects Torture
Daily Kos —
Take heart, the worst of the Bush administration's policies are soundly rejected by all of us "center right" Americans, the mass of people in this nation who the pundits and the pols insist are more concerned with being kept safe than the rule of law. As those of us in the mainstream have known all along, that conventional wisdom was bull-hockey. Now we've got some proof. The Washington Post asked this (incredibly loaded) question in its latest poll: Q. Obama has said that under his administration the United States will not use torture as ...
The Liberals' Grand Bargain
Antiwar.com Original —
... , referred to our "global leadership," yet Hillary Clinton, in her brief introduction, spoke of the need to "restore our standing," a task she opined would be "hard work." Bankruptcy makes it all the harder, but don't worry: the "pragmatists" in charge of reasserting our "global leadership" will find a way. Being against torture is so
easy. After all, is anyone really for it? Even its advocates and defenders argue it's a last resort, a desperate measure ...
1/23: This Wasn't What We Had In Mind...
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... to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Most righty bloggers are focusing on the complicated logistics of moving the Guantanamo detainees elsewhere: TORTURE: Apparently Most Americans Don't Watch 24 Liberal bloggers are buzzing about a recent Washington Post ...
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 3/17/2009 — A reader writes:
What I find striking is the clinical, dispassionate approach to the administration of torture. The fantasized, intense, urgent torture interrogations of Jack Bauer seemed so focused on obtaining information in comparison. But these accounts paint an entirely different ...
Washington Post-ABC News Poll
washingtonpost.com 1/18/2009 — This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone January 13-16, 2009, among a random national sample of 1,079 adults (landline and cell-only respondents), including additional interviews with randomly-selected African Americans, for a ...
Washington Post-ABC News Poll
washingtonpost.com 1/19/2009 — This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone January 13-16, 2009, among a random national sample of 1,079 adults (landline and cell-only respondents), including additional interviews with randomly-selected African Americans, for a ...
Water Torture
michaelyon-online.com 3/16/2009 — Next > 16 March 2009 There has been much discussion recently about what constitutes torture. Between research/travel in preparation for a return to Afghanistan and Iraq, I have been working on a couple of dispatches regarding torture. Meanwhile, ...
The Legal Cost of Torture
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/15/2009 —
One of the big problems with the Bush administration’s decision to break the law constantly in pursuit of counterterrorism is that once you’re doing a bunch of illegal stuff, it’s very hard to stop. For example, Muhammed ...
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