thepiratescove.us - 4/19/2009
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Excitable Andy
No mention of the torture memos appears right now on the Drudge Report (which provides news of a prank at Dominos pizza), Instapundit (which mentions the new DVD for the Lord of The Rings trilogy), Pajamas Media, or Michelle Malkin. They are reacting to the evidence of war ...
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 4/17/2009
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One of the most troubling aspects of the
Bradbury memos is the way they admit the CIA...
program had not been safe--particularly with respect to the way waterboarding and sleep-deprivation had been practiced--even while declaring those programs legal.
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The CIA IG Report and the Bradbury Memos
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 4/18/2009
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emptywheel.firedoglake.com —
Rizzo via David Silver In his statement on
the torture memos today, Obama suggested that some of...
the "assumptions" about what Americans had done were wrong, and that releasing the memos would correct these "assumptions." ...
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OLC Memos: Inflamatory Assumptions? Rizzo Lied to Cover ...
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Torture Documents: Who Cares Part II
Stop The ACLU —
... caring about the torture mild discomfort that stone cold Islamic terrorists were put in as a means to gain intelligence. This was in response to an Excitable Andy screed about most on the Right ignoring the issue. And, for the most part, most of us Extreme Right Wing Extremists, as labeled by the new DHS, still just do not care. Though we do enjoy watching a Party and political ideology that claims to be about looking forward and about the future consistently whining about what has happened in the past, especially when it comes to anything Bush. There is a point where honest ...
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Torture
mahablog.com 4/17/2009 — By now you’ve heard the Obama Administration released the memos used by the Bush Administration to justify torture. As Digby says ,
This is the very definition of the banality of evil — a dry, legalistic series of justifications for acts of barbaric cruelty.
Many are angry that ...
Debunking the Torture Apologists’ “Half the Intelligence” Claim
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 4/20/2009 —
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In another thread, Bob Schacht wrote ,
BTW, according to CNN, Haynes and Mukasey are claiming that “half” of what we “know” about Al Qaeda came from torture sessions. Did they really write that, and if so, I’m ...
Don't Kill the CIA
WWW.samefacts.com 4/27/2009 — It was only a matter of time before the torture debate turned on the CIA. Matthew Yglesias has done it, suggesting that we "consider" abolishing the agency. This would be a great idea if it weren't completely wrong. Let me suggest just a few reasons why:
What The CIA Did
politics.theatlantic.com 4/17/2009 — The Justice Department today
released four internal memorandums that supplied the legal basis for the
program of torture and aggressive interrogation techniques used at so-called
CIA "Black Sites" during the Bush administration and, at the same time, ...
About Those "Torture Memos"
powerlineblog.com 4/17/2009 — The Obama administration has made public four memos that were authored by the Justice Department between 2002 and 2005, in which lawyers from DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel responded to requests by the CIA for legal opinions as to whether harsh ...
The Role of the CIA
lefarkins.blogspot.com 4/18/2009 — Spencer has some thoughts: And here's how it's problematic for Obama, Blair and Panetta to indicate to the CIA that they'll stand by CIA officers who relied on OLC guidance for the torture. Marc Ambinder observes that there's some wiggle room in that ...
More Things That Are Missing
obsidianwings.blogs.com 4/20/2009 — by hilzoy A couple of other things that are missing from the torture memos : First , the memos cite various legal precedents for the definition of torture. They are particularly fond of Mehinovic v. Vuckovic , which involved "a course of conduct ...
Bush’s Willing Torturers? OLC Revelations Demand Investigation
attackerman.firedoglake.com 4/17/2009 —
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These are medieval documents, these Office of Legal Counsel memos. And not just in the sense that torture techniques like the waterboard date back to medieval times , but in the way that the OLC acted for the CIA. These ...
Graham: CIA Claimed to Have Briefed Before Torture, They Did Not
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 5/16/2009 —
I've got to correct something I said yesterday about Bob Graham. I reported that Graham said that CIA had given him two erroneous dates for briefings. That was wrong (RawStory reported the number correctly, though). They gave erroneous dates ...
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