Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Liberal "Hero" Jon Stewart Cozies Up to War Criminal Myers

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As even a commenter at The Daily Show's website put it, Jon Stewart's interview tonight with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...
Monday, March 16, 2009

9/11 Commission Relied on Tortured Confessions

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Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse, the moniker for one of Daily Kos's most intrepid diarists, has written an article covering the revela...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

Leaked! International Red Cross Report on CIA Torture

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Mark Danner has scooped the NY Times, the Washington Post and other papers by publishing in the current New York Review of Books an essay q...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Short Shots in Anti-Torture Wars

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With little time to post for the next few days, I wanted to give my readers a few juicy morsels to chew over. There's Emptywheel's a...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

A Farce in the Making? New Task Force on Interrogations and Detention

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According to the New York Times , Obama administration Attorney General Eric holder announced today he would appoint a new "special env...
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Monday, March 9, 2009

Torturers Told Binyam: "“We’re going to change your brain"

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David Rose at the British paper The Mail got the scoop that was former Guanatanamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed's "world exclusive...
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Friday, March 6, 2009

Let Craig Murray Tell Parliament What He Knows of UK Torture Involvement

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Uncle $cam left this as a comment in a recent post, but I thought it worthy of an upgrade to a full posting: Your Help Needed - Reveal Tort...
Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Birth of a Whitewash: Who Testified at Leahy Commission Torture Hearings?

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There has been plenty of controversy on the issue of conducting a Congressional or independent investigation into the interrogations policy...
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Monday, March 2, 2009

From DoJ to CIA: Wiretapping, Torture, Stonewalling & Obstruction of Justice

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Two stories from today's news highlight the hubris of the U.S. executive branch as regards its assumed right to conduct unrestrained sur...