WWW.samefacts.com - 1/15/2009
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And Muhammad Saad Iqbal was not-tortured so thoroughly that he may never recover. And that was after CIA interrogators had concluded that he was a "braggart" and a "wannabe" rather than anyone posing an actual threat.
This is part of what Leon Panetta was chosen to end.
Since we're not ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 1/22/2009
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A majority of Americans in a new Washington
Post-ABC News poll oppose the use of torture in...
terrorism investigations, backing Barack Obama's pledge that "under my administration, the United States does not torture." But there's an even split on ...
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On Torture
law.cornell.edu - 1/14/2009
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HERRING v. UNITED STATES (No. 07-513) 492 F.
3d 1212, affirmed. Syllabus Opinion [Roberts] Dissent [Ginsburg] Dissent...
[Breyer] Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, ...
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HERRING v. UNITED STATES
mcclatchydc.com - 1/23/2009
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sent the world
a clear message Thursday that he's changing course from...
the Bush years, ordering an end to some of the most controversial tools used against suspected terrorists and launching high-profile ...
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Obama sends a message: the United States will not torture
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Faithfully Executing the Laws
Matthew Yglesias —
Via Mark Kleiman, Dahlia Lithwick and Philippe Sands observe that the Torture Convention, to which the United States is a signatory, “every state has a treaty obligation to criminalize torture, and to prosecute torturers itself or extradite them for prosecution elsewhere.”
Again, I completely understand the Obama administration’s hesitancy to open their new administration with this particular issue. But simply deciding to let it slide and say bygones are bygones isn’t a very viable strategy. Torture is illegal in the United States, a legal obligation exists to prosecute torturers, we have at least one legal determination that ...
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