julescrittenden.com - 1/12/2009
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« That Turn The Other Cheek Thing Uh Oh » Waterboarding Gets Allah’s vote. ABC : A leader of the CIA team that captured the first major al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah, says subjecting him to waterboarding was torture but necessary. In the first public comment by any CIA officer involved ...
npr.org - 1/11/2009
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NPR.org , November 3, 2007 The surprisingly contentious
confirmation process of Michael Mukasey, President Bush's pick for...
attorney general, has come down to one issue: waterboarding. Mukasey has called waterboarding personally "repugnant," but said ...
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Waterboarding: A Tortured History
npr.org - 1/14/2009
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All Things Considered , December 12, 2007 A
former CIA officer who questioned a key al-Qaida operative...
in 2002 says he now condemns the harsh interrogation techniques which he once saw as "desperate measures" called for by "desperate times." Former ...
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Ex-CIA Officer Speaks Out Against Waterboarding
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Bush Admits Ordered Being Mean To Terrorists, Think Progress Has Hissy Fit
Pirate's Cove —
... … and that the interrogators gained information that helped save lives. Think Progress, citing an entirely different situation, falsely claims that interrogators denied that the breaking of al-Qaeda terrorists without causing any physical harm via waterboarding saved lives. In fact, the only interrogator who participated in waterboarding to have spoken publicly about it to date has said while he didn’t like the method, it was quick, highly effective and in his estimation, may have prevented dozens of attacks. ...
Bush Admits Ordered Being Mean To Terrorists, Think Progress Has Hissy Fit
Stop The ACLU —
... … and that the interrogators gained information that helped save lives. Think Progress, citing an entirely different situation, falsely claims that interrogators denied that the breaking of al-Qaeda terrorists without causing any physical harm via waterboarding saved lives. In fact, the only interrogator who participated in waterboarding to have spoken publicly about it to date has said while he didn’t like the method, it was quick, highly effective and in his estimation, may have prevented dozens of attacks . Huzzah. Video over at Think Jihad, if you care to watch it. Funny ...
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How Waterboarding Got The Green Light From Bush
huffingtonpost.com 12/15/2008 — The Bush administration approved the use of "waterboarding" on Al Qaeda detainees after receiving reports from government psychologists that it was "100 percent effective" in breaking the will of U.S. military personnel subjected to the technique ...
Holder: 'Waterboarding is torture'
politico.com 1/19/2009 — Signaling sharp breaks from the current admin, Holder declares that waterboarding is torture and says that Gitmo will be closed as quickly as possible.
Video - Holder: Waterboarding is torture
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com 1/15/2009 — Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr. declared Thursday that waterboarding is torture, forcefully breaking from years in which the Justice Department deftly avoided the sensitive question about U.S. interrogation methods.
Obama news conference: 'Waterboarding is torture'
latimesblogs.latimes.com 4/30/2009 — In answer to a question about waterboarding and whether it violates the Geneva Conventions, Obama is unequivocal: “Waterboarding is torture.”
He adds: “Waterboarding violates our ideals and our values. I do believe it’s torture. That is not just ...
The Case for More Waterboarding
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 4/27/2009 —
The orthodox conservative position at this point, it seems to me, is that waterboarding is not torture. Nor is having someone dangle from his shackled arms in a manner so painful as to prevent sleep for a period of days. What’s more, these ...
Obama: I Believe Waterboarding Is Torture
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 4/30/2009 — ABC's Jake Tapper just asked Obama if he thought that the Bush administration "sanctioned torture" in its use of waterboarding and Obama, after a moment's hesitation, said "Waterboarding violates our ideals and our values. I do believe that it's ...
Obama Says Waterboarding is Torture
globalsecurity.org 5/9/2009 — Washington 30 April 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama says the practice known as "waterboarding", or simulated drowning, used on certain high-level terrorist suspects under the Bush administration is torture. At a prime-time news conference late ...
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