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Bush Torture Memos Recut In Song (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Jonathan Mann, the man who brought you the "Paul Krugman" song is back putting the Bush torture memos to music. This is the 109th video in Mann's "one song a day" project . He uses hot-button topics in the news to inspire him on his surely wearying journey, and this time he took language detailing "enhanced interrogation techniques" and put it to music.
Last week the Department of Justice released the memos from the Office of Legal Counsel that discussed the CIA's use of torture under Bush. This decision by President Obama has been lauded by some, but several members of the last administration and their supporters have been less ...
The Banal Evil Of Jay Bybee, Set To Music
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
I love the Internet. Can you imagine what those thugs would have gotten away with without it?
Putting Torture Memos to Music
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
I know we're not supposed to be advocates around here, but I can't help it. I think I love Jonathan Mann. He's like our own hometown Flight of the Conchords. The SF Bay Area musician and self-videographer set out in January to compose a song and music video a day, something a ...
Waterboarding: The Song
Matthew Yglesias —
Watch and be astounded by the legal “reasoning” involved in the claim that waterboarding—deliberately initiating the sensation of drowning—does not involve inflicting severe suffering on the waterboarding victim:
To state the obvious, if you’re doing something to someone such that the idea is that it’s so unpleasant that they’ll do whatever you want to get them to stop, then the amount of suffering you’re inflicting has to be pretty severe. The point of waterboarding, according to the memos, is that it puts a lot of coercive power in the ...
Video Friday: Two from Texas, and a Torture Memo Tune
Opinionator —
On Wednesday Energy Secretary Steven Chu testified before Congress, and Rep. Joe Barton, from Texas, asked him, “How did all the oil and gas get to Alaska?” Chu was probably not expecting to have to give an explanation of plate tectonics, but he soldiered on anyway. Shortly after, the Congressman bragged on Twitter ...
The Art of Torture
Discourse.net —
YouTube - Torture Memos: Waterboarding
