thinkprogress.org - 11/19/2008
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The Bush had administration repeatedly insists that it does not practice torture: “ We do not torture ,” President Bush declared in 2005. The U.S. “ is not torturing any detainees ,” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said last April. Dismissing a Red Cross report ...
newsweek.com - 11/22/2008
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newsweek.com —
Despite the hopes of many human-rights advocates, the
new Obama Justice Department is not likely to launch
major new criminal probes of harsh interrogations and other alleged abuses by the Bush administration. But one idea that has currency among some ...
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Obama Considers Commission on Bush Admin Torture | ...
mediamatters.org - 11/21/2008
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mediamatters.org —
In anticipation of the new administration, Beltway media
insiders are busy laying the groundwork for how reporters
and pundits will treat the new team on Pennsylvania Avenue. "Once a president takes office ... an adversarial relationship ...
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Boehlert: Covering new presidents: the media's double ...
theanchoressonline.com - 11/20/2008
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theanchoressonline.com —
I’m still trying to keep to my new
pledge of only writing about politics when it intersects
with religion, but it does seem only fair to note that, Old Europe, which has been struggling all along with its restrictions, has finally admitted ...
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Bush was right. Victorious, too
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... It is simply inarguable that the Bush administration has authorized torture. There is no factual or empirical doubt about this. But Perino is required to utter untruths that reflect merely her boss's psychological denial of his own crimes than anything that could be faintly deemed reality. ...
Has Dana Perino Really ?Never Answered? Whether Waterboarding Is Torture?
The Hollywood Liberal —
... whether the Bush administration tortured, Perino consistently and robotically responded, “We do not torture.” She uttered the phrase until the very end of her tenure, well after the CIA publicly admitted in February 2008 to waterboarding three detainees:– “Let me just make sure it’s clear, and I’ll say it on the record one more time, that it has never been the policy of this President or this administration to torture .” [ 1/14/09 ]– “We did not torture .” [ 11/18/08 ]– “The United States has not, is not torturing any detainees in the global war on ...
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