ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 3/17/2009
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This makes me think more than ever that we need a truth and reconciliation commission -- not to punish the low-level guys who inflicted torture, but to set the record straight on who thought it was a good idea to make the use of torture U.S. national policy. Those are the people who dragged this ...
nybooks.com - 3/15/2009
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nybooks.com —
Volume 56, Number 6 · April 9, 2009
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites By Mark...
Danner ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody by the International Committee of the Red Cross 43 pp., February 2007 Press ...
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washingtonpost.com - 3/15/2009
newsweek.com - 3/22/2009
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newsweek.com —
Over objections from the U.S. intelligence community, the
White House is moving to declassify—and publicly release—three internal...
memos that will lay out, for the first time, details of the "enhanced" interrogation techniques approved by the Bush ...
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Coming Soon: Declassified Bush-Era Torture Memos | ...
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Morning Skim: A Solution to the A.I.G. Mess
Opinionator —
... : What we need now . . . is not an endless, politicized circus of a congressional investigation into every aspect of George W. Bush’s White House but a carefully targeted legal investigation of the CIA’s invisible prisons: who gave the orders to use torture, who carried out the orders, what exactly was done, who objected. Foreign Policy : Responding to the same report, Thomas Ricks echoes Applebaum : [M]ore than ever that we need a truth and reconciliation commission — not to punish the low-level guys who inflicted torture, but to set the record straight on who thought it ...
Torture is Wrong
Mudville Gazette —
... Tom Ricks says he thinks "more than ever that we need a truth and reconciliation commission -- not to punish the low-level guys who inflicted torture, but to set the record straight on who thought it was a good idea to make the use of torture U.S. national policy." ...
Yes, Bush Tortured II
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Tom Ricks isn't afraid to use the T-word.
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 4/7/2009 —
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Obama's Moment Of Truth On Torture
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 4/15/2009 — The question before the president today is not whether to prosecute his predecessors for war crimes; it is simply whether to allow the memos that the Bush administration drew up describing in gruesome detail the torture techniques they authorized ...
The Point Of Torture Is Always Torture
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 3/17/2009 — A reader writes:
What I find striking is the clinical, dispassionate approach to the administration of torture. The fantasized, intense, urgent torture interrogations of Jack Bauer seemed so focused on obtaining information in comparison. But these accounts paint an entirely different ...
So Much Torture Disclosure to Be Had
washingtonindependent.com 4/21/2009 — Former Vice President Dick Cheney — the avatar of secrecy — really did say this last night . Daphne puts together a wish list : [I]f there are memos showing that torture and the CIA’s other “extreme” interrogation techniques were successful, I’d like ...
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washingtonindependent.com 5/13/2009 — Bush White House Won't Call Waterboarding Torture -- But Past Administrations Have
The Torture And The Iraq War
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 4/23/2009 — Today's op-ed by Ali Soufan , an FBI interrogator of Zubaydah, gives us critical, first-hand evidence of how the torture regime was put into place. Soufan notes that torture was applied to Zubaydah even though he had provided a great deal of ...
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