harpers.org - 5/13/2009
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Scott Horton In a recent television appearance, one of the nation’s foremost retired military leaders, General Barry McCaffrey, said: “We should never, as a policy, maltreat people under our control, detainees. We tortured people unmercifully. We probably murdered dozens of them during the ...
harpers.org - 5/7/2009
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“Although he immunized intelligence operatives who conducted the
interrogations, morale at the CIA is at record lows.”...
That perfectly explains the rock-star reception that Obama received when he went to Langley to address the agency. Take a second to ...
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Bolton’s Spanish Delusions—By Scott Horton (Harper's ...
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The Massive Expansion of America's "Hard Left"
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... that numerous detainees were "murdered" in U.S. custody -- which is unquestionably true -- and called for criminal investigations of the top-level political officials who sanctioned torture. ...
NYT: Obama Tarring Himself With Torture Cover-Up
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... As usual, what must never be mentioned are the torture victims themselves, including the 100 or so that were actually killed while in U.S. custody. It can't be overstated how self-centered, petty and amoral it is for the Tim Kaines and Erica Williamses of the world to insist that their little partisan desires justify telling the victims of our torture regime that it's time for them to pipe down and accept that there will be no accountability for what happened to them because we have Important Things to do and can't and don't want to be bothered by ...
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