talkleft.com - 12/24/2008
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Responding to Reuel Marc Gerecht's defense of his pro-torture position, Kevin Drum writes : Sadly, I suspect that Gerecht is right: if torture had been put to a vote back in 2001, it would have passed. The language would have been prettied up, of course, but the intention would have been ...
nytimes.com - 12/18/2008
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nytimes.com —
A prosecutor should be appointed to consider criminal
charges against top officials at the Pentagon for decisions
that led to the abuse, torture and death in prisons run by the American military and intelligence services. >
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Editorial: The Torture Report
washingtonpost.com - 12/23/2008
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Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or
other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from
the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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5 Myths About Torture and Truth
news.bbc.co.uk - 12/19/2008
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news.bbc.co.uk —
Decades after a notorious experiment, scientists have found
test subjects are still willing to inflict pain on
others - if told to by an authority figure. US researchers repeated the famous "Milgram test", with volunteers told to deliver electrical ...
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BBC NEWS | Health | People 'still willing to torture'
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Appreciating the Foes of Torture
Daily Kos —
... a few organizations with the guts and stamina not to surrender deserve far more than mere thanks for their pursuit of truth, justice and what was once touted as the American way. But until that halcyon day when dissidents are awarded Medals of Freedom, simple gratitude will have to suffice. They go by the names of Jane Mayer, Invictus/Valtin, Glenn Greenwald, mcjoan, Christy Hardin Smith, jhutson, digby, Scott Horton, Armando/Big Tent Democrat, Marcy Wheeler, the ACLU, the Center for ...
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Torture
motherjones.com 12/17/2008 — TORTURE.... Responding to Andrew Sullivan, Reuel Marc Gerecht defends his defense of torture:
I take it from your post that if you had been confronted on 7 September 2001 with a captured Khalid Shaykh Muhammad or Abu Zubaydah and you knew that a ...
Video - Obama: U.S. 'will not torture'
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com 1/23/2009 — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the United States 'will not torture' as it detains terrorism suspects and works to keep the country safe.
The Point Of Torture Is Always Torture
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 ...
The torture of things that aren't torture
blackfive.net 11/30/2008 — Another reason to love the British Empire | Main | US & India seal security pact The torture of things that aren't torture Posted By Uncle Jimbo Strap in for a good old-fashioned scrap as the folks who get weak in the knees at the thought of KSM ...
Torture by Any Other Name
washingtonindependent.com 5/13/2009 — Bush White House Won't Call Waterboarding Torture -- But Past Administrations Have
In defense of torture
ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com 12/18/2008 — Ross gives us a fairly thoughtful untangling of his complicated feelings about torture. If I may, I'd quibble with one point. Ross puts Bush's torture advocacy in historical perspective, correctly point out that while torture may be a betrayal of ...
On Torture
voices.washingtonpost.com 1/22/2009 — 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 ...
More on Torture
swampland.blogs.time.com 1/13/2009 — 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 ...
On Torture - Behind the Numbers
voices.washingtonpost.com 1/22/2009 — 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 ...
Bush clears way for Costa Rica to join CAFTA —
Reuters: Politics 12/23/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush cleared the way on Tuesday for Costa Rica to formally join a regional free trade agreement between the United States, the Dominican Republic and four other Central American countries.
Paterson back from Iraq, with Sen. candidates —
First Read 12/24/2008
From NBC’s Lauren Appelbaum After returning from Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany this afternoon, Gov. D avid A. Paterson (D-NY) held a media availability with two New York congressmen, Representatives Steve Israel and Anthony Weiner . Reporters ...
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