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The Torture Report
nytimes.com - 12/19/2008
The Torture Report
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NYT editorial about war crimes: A prosecutor should be appointed to consider criminal charges against top officials at the Pentagon and others involved in planning the abuse.
Editorial: The Torture Report
nytimes.com - 12/18/2008
Editorial: The Torture Report
— 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. > (more) Editorial: The Torture Report

Comments vote down The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan found this 12/18/2008found this
motherjones.com - 12/17/2008
Torture
— motherjones.com — 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 ... (more) Torture

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ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com - 12/18/2008
In defense of torture
— ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com — 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 ... (more) In defense of torture

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Related: donald rumsfeld + guantanamo
Biden Not Ruling Out Prosecuting Bush Officials For Prisoner Abuse — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]ABC [/b] The Senate Armed Services Committee last week released a unanimous report that said that the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, at Guantanamo, at prisons around the world, is a direct and indirect result of decisions made by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other ...