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An anti-torture demonstrator was held down during a simulation of the waterboarding technique outside the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., on November 5, 2007 Kevin Lamarque/Reuters An anti-torture demonstrator was held down during a simulation of the waterboarding technique outside the ...
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Shahid Buttar: Could Gitmo Get Worse? The Policy Implications of Executive Accountability
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... alternative could turn on whether torturers, or detainees, face justice first.
Cheney & his minions
Vice President Cheney, in particular, should face criminal liability imposed not only through a judicial process, but also through legislative impeachment by the next session of Congress. His charges should include not only the war crime of ordering torture, but also outright treason.
At the very least, Cheney recently disclosed a decision to personally authorize torture, and the Senate recently exposed Rumsfeld's crucial role. Both ...
Prosecute Them, I
Booman Tribune —
... , which you can see in its entirety online. After hearing about Dick Cheney's downright smug admission to approving torture , the Senate report that ...
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On Torture: The Will Of The People
talkleft.com 12/24/2008 — Responding to Reuel Marc Gerecht's defense of his pro-torture position, Kevin Drum writes : Sadly, I suspect that Gerecht is right: if torture had been put to a vote back in 2001, it would have passed. The language would have been prettied up, of ...
Video: Poll: Obama off to an approving start
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com 1/25/2009 — Barack Obama is enjoying about a two-thirds approval rating for his first days as president, a poll released by the Gallup Organization found.
More on Torture
swampland.blogs.time.com 1/13/2009 — A number of readers have taken me to task for not calling for the prosecution of George Bush et al for war crimes. Glenn Greenwald has now piled on . Let me say this: I would have no moral, legal or spiritual problem with the Obama Administration ...
Torture
motherjones.com 12/17/2008 — TORTURE.... Responding to Andrew Sullivan, Reuel Marc Gerecht defends his defense of torture:
I take it from your post that if you had been confronted on 7 September 2001 with a captured Khalid Shaykh Muhammad or Abu Zubaydah and you knew that a ...
Cheney's delusions - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 12/20/2008 — We probably shouldn't have been surprised at Vice President Dick Cheney's blustering, obstinate insistence on ABC News on Monday that he's been right all along about virtually everything. But that doesn't mean we have to agree. In the interview, ...
Video - Obama: U.S. 'will not torture'
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com 1/23/2009 — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the United States 'will not torture' as it detains terrorism suspects and works to keep the country safe.
Panetta On Torture
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 1/5/2009 — Here's Central Intelligence Agency director-designate Leon E. Panetta, writing about torture, in the Washington Monthly. Actually, no -- he's writing in the Washington Monthly about torture:
We have preached these values to the world. We have made ...
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.
More Obama Justice Dept. picks announced —
CNN Political Ticker 1/5/2009
(CNN) — The Obama transition released a Harvard-heavy list of Justice Department appointments Monday. Transition release follows after the jump.
WASHINGTON – Today, President-elect Barack Obama announced that he intends to nominate the ...
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