torture
Who Taught John Yoo to Hate Freedom So Much?
His former boss Clarence Thomas, of course.
Illinois Judge Allows Torture Suit to Procede
Okay, we all know there can never be such thing as a law that provides for people who have brown skin and believe in Islam having the ability to seek remedy in American courts for torture at the hands of the U.S. military or CIA. But what about two white, American, presumably non-Muslim, contractor whistle-blowers? [...]
Hold the Torturers Accountable
Or else we’ll all be held accountable by Rep. Ron Paul, May 26, 2009 While Congress is sidetracked by who said what to whom and when, our nation finds itself at a crossroads on the issue of torture. We are at a point where we must decide if torture is something that is now going [...]
McChrystal, Copper Green, Torture and Assassination
Check out this great Esquire article about the torture occupation of Iraq and new Afghan boss McChrystal‘s role. How’d I miss this in ’06? Muriel Kane wonders whether McChrystal ran Cheney’s global assassination hit squads. Hersh: “…let’s say Yemen, let’s say Peru, let’s say Colombia, let’s say Eritrea, let’s say Madagascar, let’s say Kenya, countries [...]
Jessie Ventura on Larry King.
“Give me a waterboard and Dick Cheney for 1 hour, and I’ll have him admit to the Sharon Tate Murders” – Jessie Ventura
Bush: I was just following Orders Won’t Cut It.
“war crimes will be prosecuted, war criminals will be punished, and it will be no defence to say ‘i was just following Orders” – George H W Bush 2003.
Oh, Poor Judge Bybee!
Pravda reports that Federal Judge Jay Bybee, who “interpreted” the law to mean that it was perfectly okay for George W. Bush to slam people against the wall 30 times in a row after keeping them awake for a month chained to the ceiling and forced to evacuate on themselves when they weren’t being locked [...]
The ICRC Torture Report
A few weeks ago, Mark Danner at the New York Review of Books published an article about a classified International Committee of the Red Cross report written for the CIA’s eyes only. It described in detail the tortures committed against those held in the CIA’s “Ghost Prison” “Black Sites,” including pretty much everything the Soviet [...]
Senator Whitehouse Warns Nation
Absolute horror to be revealed by torture hearings. Via the Daily Kos, which notes that Whitehouse is a member of the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees.
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