voices.washingtonpost.com - 5/6/2009
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"And here is Weisberg, writing in Newsweek: "By 2003, if you didn't understand that the United States was inflicting torture upon those deemed enemy combatants, you weren't paying much attention." Nonsense. I reject guilty of complicity by passive knowledge. The president and VP were running ...
washingtonindependent.com - 5/13/2009
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Normalizing Torture
Suburban Guerrilla —
What the media did to help.
Torture the fault of the peasants, not of Versailles
Corrente —
Froomkin deals with the matter.
It's always the same, isn't it? No accountability for Versailes, ever. It's exactly the same with health care Read more…
Quote of the Day
Crooks and Liars —
... Dan Froomkin writes an impressive piece that exposes the torturers and their media enablers who covered up and participated in the torture policy of the Bush White House that is a must-read. It's called: "Complicity -- and Accountability -- on Torture," and he ends it on this note: ...
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