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Scarborough Singing Torture’s Praises Again
firedoglake.com - 1/14/2009
Scarborough Singing Torture’s Praises Again
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Joe Scarborough weighs in this morning with an opinion on the effectiveness of torture on Kalid Shaikh Mohammed : SCARBOROUGH: I know for a fact that waterboarding brought our interrogators, brought Americans, probably about 70-75 percent of what they get. What they got from Khalid ...
Scarborough: ‘That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard’ that torture doesn’t work.
thinkprogress.org - 1/12/2009
Scarborough: ‘That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard’ that torture doesn’t work.
— thinkprogress.org — Today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough waged an ardent, six-minute defense of torture, arguing with... the Financial Times’ Krystia Freeland that torture is always effective — and that waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and ... (more) Scarborough: ‘That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard’ ...

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— mudvillegazette.com — This week in the history of the Iraq war : January 13, 1993: With Iraqi missile sites... still operational south of the 32d parallel, and Iraqi troops making repeated forays across the newly demarcated border with Kuwait, President Bush orders ... (more) Changes

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Larry King's last Bush chat: Blue shirts, baseball and blind trusts
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 1/14/2009
Larry King's last Bush chat: Blue shirts, baseball and blind trusts
— latimesblogs.latimes.com — President George W. Bush is going to wake up in his ranch house back in Texas next... Wednesday morning, Jan. 21, as former President George W. Bush. He'll not have an 8 a.m. intelligence briefing about all the awful things going on out there in ... (more) Larry King's last Bush chat: Blue shirts, baseball and ...

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Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  Frank Naif: You Call This Pressure on Obama to Keep Torturing?

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Frank Naif: You Call This Pressure on Obama to Keep Torturing?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... been involved in torture and extrajudicial imprisonment. And does anybody who matters think that torture is worth the cost to American greatness? Republican cheerleaders such as Joe Scarborough, like, totally think torture is totally awesome! This past Monday morning Scarborough exclaimed, "I know for a fact that waterboarding brought our interrogators, brought Americans, probably about 70-75 percent of what they get." Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake debunked Scarborough's ridiculous claim right away, citing The Dark Side by ...

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