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salon.com - 5/18/2009

The 13 people who made torture possible | Salon News

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May 18, 2009 | On April 16, the Obama administration released four memos that were used to authorize torture in interrogations during the Bush administration. When President Obama released the memos, he said, "It is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith ...

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blogs.abcnews.com - 5/14/2009

Pelosi: CIA Lied to Me

— blogs.abcnews.com — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today accused intelligence officials of giving her “inaccurate and incomplete information” on the... use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics by the Bush administration, saying that CIA officials are guilty of ... (more) Pelosi: CIA Lied to Me

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thedailybeast.com - 5/15/2009

The Bush Administration Homicides - Page 1

— thedailybeast.com — Abu Ghraib prison Karel Prinsloo / AP Photo For five years as a researcher for Human Rights... Watch and reporter, John Sifton helped investigate homicides resulting from the Bush administration's torture policy. His findings include: An estimated 100 ... (more) The Bush Administration Homicides - Page 1

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pr.thinkprogress.org - 5/15/2009

Torture -- Right-Wing Distractions

— pr.thinkprogress.org — TORTURE Right-Wing Distractions The debate over accountability for torture authorized by the Bush administration heated up this... week. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) led a hearing on Wednesday on Bush-era interrogation practices, featuring testimony ... (more) Torture -- Right-Wing Distractions

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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — ... Marcy Wheeler: The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it. ...

Hullabaloo — ... Obama wants to move beyond the Bush horrors. So do I, so does everyone. And there is only one way to do that, and that is to confront it, to expose it, and when appropriate, prosecute the individuals implicated in criminal activity. Those 13 are hardly the only ones. ...

White Whales and Wingnuts
The Mahablog — ... Regarding what needs to be investigated — see Marcy Wheeler’s “The 13 people who made torture possible.” Sorta kinda related — ...

Team Obama Caught Bringing a Football to a Basketball Game
Firedoglake — ... On torture, they are letting the advantage of change disappear and letting Pelosi become the issue, not the Torture 13. On Gitmo, the same. State secrets, ditto. On filling out the second and third level appointees to the executive branch, folks like ...

Hullabaloo — ... I've got "We were panicked after 9/11" in grey (C1), separate from the more bullying, don't-challenge-us, "Remember 9/11!" (F1). Personally, I think "we were panicked after 9/11" would be the most compelling argument for mitigating a sentence in court, but the problem – for the key figures, at least - is that the evidence and timeline simply don't sustain a defense of "good faith." (See Marcy Wheeler's invaluable "The 13 who made torture possible" and her ...