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Jane Mayer on Possible War Crimes (video)

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Jane Mayer talks about the possibility of an outside commission taking a look at evidence of torture and/or war crimes during the Bush administration.

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Guest Post by Katherine Tiedemann: Could A Truth Commission Pull Us Back from "The Dark Side?"
The Washington Note — Katherine Tiedemann is a Program Associate with the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy & Nonproliferation Initiative. During Jane Mayer's event Tuesday at New America promoting her penetrating new book, The Dark Side, a topic came up during the Q & A that I'd like to expand on--the possibility of establishing a truth commission for the Bush administration's transgressions. The idea has been getting some play recently, both from Nick Kristof in the New York Times and scattered across some blogs (a funny parody here, another ...

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Matthew Yglesias — Are we going to need a South Africa-style truth commission to find the facts and clear the air after Bush-era war crimes? To me it more and more looks like that will be the case: But I'm basically pessimistic that anyone will be held accountable for anything at all. The relevance precedent is probably Iran-Contra where the guilty parties just . . . came back into government a bit later and anyone who mentioned that they were crooks was dismissed as shrill. I recall that during the telecom immunity fight the Washington Post specifically denounced immunity opponents on ...

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David Letterman, who a month ago doubted George Bush and Dick Cheney have any “humanity,” on Wednesday's Late Show pushed a guest to confirm “that George Bush's administration is clearly guilty of war crimes.” Far-left “journalist” Jane Mayer of the New Yorker was invited onto the Late Show to plug her new book, ' The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on ...

Behind the Scenes — The Washington Note

I've been offline for a day or so working behind the scenes on a number of fronts that I can't be all that specific about. For Jane Mayer fans , I'm pleased to see that her book is again at #6 on Amazon. More soon -- promise. -- Steve Clemons

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THE WORST OF THE WORST . My post on learned helplessness took more than a day to get any links at all, despite my attempts to get some via email. But it's slowly gotten more and more links and hits; it seems to be on the Long Tail , so to speak. Despite that, I don't want this additional Jane Mayer quote to be lost as an addendum (feel free to check out the check out the many addenda I did ...

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Now there’s a shocker, no? This is just one of many reasons why we shouldn’t torture. As more details about the Bush administration’s torture program come to light, (see Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side ) we find that torture brings about more bogus intelligence and coerced confessions have led our intelligence agencies on a host of wild goose chases and wasted valuable ...

Video: Jane Mayer on Terror Politics And War Crimes after 9/11 — The BRAD BLOG

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Marty Lederman: This tells you everything you need to know: "[Jane] Mayer reports that [Dan]Levin warned Gonzales not to choose Stephen Bradbury as head of OLC, because 'he won't give you independent advice.' Which the [White House] viewed as the...

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Psychologist Marty Seligman has objected to the notion that he "assisted" the torture program of the president in Gitmo and throughout the war on terror. Jane Mayer never actually used that word, others have in describing Mayer's book. No facts in Mayer's book have been disputed by Seligman. Here's Jane's response to his protestation of total innocence of what he became ...

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