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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 4/1/2009
When The Washington Post Calls Waterboarding "Torture"
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When it's done by the Khmer Rouge : His victims -- most of whom were either disgraced members of the Khmer Rouge or their families -- were tortured with electric shocks, waterboarding or beating to extract a confession, which would implicate new victims... Among the four forms of torture he ...
washingtonpost.com - 3/31/2009
Washington Post-ABC News Poll
— washingtonpost.com — This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone Mar. 26-29, 2009, among a random national sample... of 1,000 adults including landline and cell phone-only respondents. The results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of ... (more) Washington Post-ABC News Poll

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grist.org - 4/7/2009
Washington Post reporter calls out George Will for lying in Washington Post
— grist.org — Today, Washington Post reporters Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth Sheridan have a piece on the alarming decline... of Arctic sea ice . In and of itself the story isn’t that surprising: scientists have known for a while that the ice is declining; new data ... (more) Washington Post reporter calls out George Will for lying ...

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washingtonpost.com - 4/3/2009
Right Matters: A Judicial Outrage in Iowa
— washingtonpost.com — Iowa's supreme court has ruled that its constitutional guarantee of "equal protection" for all people requires the... state to recognize same-sex marriage. The court overturned a law passed in 1998. (more) Right Matters: A Judicial Outrage in Iowa

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The Reality-Based Community:  When is torture not torture?

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When is torture not torture?
The Reality-Based Community — ... and Andrew Sullivan make a strong point about the notion, so beloved of loyal Bushies, that “The United States does not torture,” and about the complicity of the mass media. The Washington Post , in reporting on the trial of an accused Khmer Rouge war criminal, recites as fact that "pouring water up people's noses" (waterboarding) constitutes torture. But the very same newspaper insists on treating the question of whether waterboarding is torture as an open one when it comes to the application of the technique by the Bush Administration. Thus “The United States does not ...

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