Tag: torture
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July 12, 2009 09:49 AM EDT --
This issue gets confused with retribution against someone we do or don't like. That's not what it's about. It's about living up to the accountability requirements that are structured into our government . . .
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April 20, 2009 12:43 PM EDT --
Abu Zubaydah, the poster child for waterboarding, was according to CIA reprorts, was waterboarded 83 times. Obama wants it banned as ineffective. The liberal media points out that it took . . .
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December 30, 2009 09:42 AM EST --
Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America . He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black . . .
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November 07, 2007 09:54 AM EST --
This Bush Administration has made the U.S. look utterly disgusting to the rest of the world. One example is our current use of "waterboarding". It is illegal. . . .
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April 28, 2009 12:01 PM EDT --
Are you willing to be waterboarded to prove that it is not torture?
On a talk show about a week ago, Charles Grodin and Sean Hannity were debating waterboarding as torture. Hannity insisted . . .
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December 23, 2009 09:02 AM EST --
President Obama probably wishes he could take back his promise to close Guantanamo Bay by January 2010. Officials tell The New York Times that they won't be able to close Gitmo until 2011 at the . . .
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November 04, 2007 12:49 PM EST --
Assume for a moment (and to be honest, with our history since the 1900's, it is not that impossible of an assumption,) that you suspected within the next few days you would be siezed by agents of . . .
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December 20, 2008 10:27 AM EST --
'Our NKVD ( Law Enforcement, Intelligence and CounterIntelligence) had transformed into the Coven of Corrupt Executioners...'
Nicholai Bucharin, the Testament dictated verbally . . .
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February 28, 2009 03:33 PM EST --
Barbara Ehrenreich comments on working in America My Role in the Torture of Binyam Mohamed
I like to think that some of the things I write cause discomfort in those readers who deserve to feel it. Ideally, . . .
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May 13, 2009 01:05 PM EDT --
The cover-up of Bush-era crimes is taking a shocking but not unexpected turn. A fateful move has been made and it is certain to backfire.
A prisoner who was horribly tortured in 2002 until he agreed . . .
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May 07, 2009 09:26 AM EDT --
The United States government has been involved in the torture business for some time. During the 1950s, 60, and 70s, the CIA’s adventures in countries like Guatemala, Honduras, Chile, and Iran, . . .
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October 05, 2007 04:19 PM EDT --
Bush defended his administration's methods of detaining and questioning terrorism suspects on Friday, saying they are both successful and lawful.
"When we find somebody who may have information . . .
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April 11, 2009 11:27 AM EDT --
Cenk Uygur is a progressive host on a radio station called The Young Turks . On March 23, 2009 he wrote an interesting article about the Gambian government and torture on the Huffington Post. . . .
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January 25, 2009 11:01 PM EST --
After only 4 Days, it has already begun. "Fairness Doctrine," anyone?
I am not normally moved to write on triviality, but this particular experience carries with it implications . . .
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July 17, 2008 06:39 PM EDT --
Defending this Administration's record on 'aggressive' interrogation techniques , the former United States Attorney General was questioned about waterboarding by Rep. Howard Coble, R-North . . .
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February 12, 2009 11:32 AM EST --
Last week, President Obama's new Attorney-General, Eric H. Holder, assured senior Republican senators who were withholding their support for his nomination that he is not likely to prosecute CIA . . .
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March 14, 2009 03:47 PM EDT --
Former US President George W. Bush could possibly stand trial at the international Criminal Court in The Hague, says an ex-UN prosecutor.
David Crane, an international law professor . . .
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April 15, 2009 07:14 PM EDT --
"Spanish prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal investigation targeting former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five top associates over their role in the torture of . . .
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May 13, 2009 12:57 PM EDT --
According to CNN Breaking News and FoxNews, torture photos that the ACLU fought to have released, will not be released pending more legal review. Obama has decided to block the photos' release . . .
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May 15, 2009 07:37 PM EDT --
I hope that President Obama has no hatred in his heart. If he resents George W. Bush, it would be an understandable emotional reaction under the circumstances.
There's been . . .
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