Tag: torture
member name: Jack E.
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November 06, 2009 05:01 PM EST --
I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job." - George W. Bush , 2004, during the war in Iraq.
"I believe that Christ died for my sins and I am redeemed through him. That is a . . .
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December 05, 2008 05:15 PM EST --
By Matthew Alexander -- I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfully hunted down one of the . . .
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April 23, 2009 08:51 AM EDT --
By Jessica Pieklo -- With the release of the torture memos has come a steady parade of Bush apologists, quick to defend the CIA tactics of waterboarding, walling, and stress positions. Mind you, these . . .
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May 13, 2009 03:01 PM EDT --
President Barack Obama is seeking to block the release of hundreds of photos showing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan being abused, reversing his position after military commanders warned that the images . . .
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October 30, 2009 10:24 AM EDT --
More Bush-era torture documents could be forthcoming, if the Obama administration delivers on its promise to review more than 200 internal Bush documents, including a top-secret Defense memo outlining . . .
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April 28, 2009 07:25 AM EDT --
by Tracy Viselli -- I don't like to use the phrase he or she "asked for it." That's why I'm a women's rights blogger. But in this case, I'll make an exception because . . .
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May 15, 2009 06:28 PM EDT --
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!": Alexander Hamilton
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant . . .
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January 05, 2009 03:54 PM EST --
My blood is boiling over this. This sweet little angel was tortured by her mother's boyfriend. It ended with her dying in pain. Please read the story and sign petition on sight. You have to confirm . . .
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April 18, 2009 02:02 PM EDT --
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is trying to close a chapter in the nation's history that continues to haunt U.S. foreign policy.
Obama authorized the release of graphic "torture memos" . . .
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May 06, 2009 01:27 PM EDT --
by Jonathan Chait -- Hit me Bybee, one more time.
Remember the Rule of Law? In the late 1990s, it was all the rage in conservative circles. Having maneuvered Bill Clinton into a position where . . .
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May 08, 2009 11:49 AM EDT --
At a press conference last week, President Obama announced that his administration intends to engage in an "overarching reform" of the state secrets privilege, a legal tool exploited during . . .
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August 03, 2009 08:35 AM EDT --
Congressmen who proclaimed "not in my backyard" during the debate over where to house terror detainees once the Guantánamo facility is shuttered are in for an unpleasant surprise. The Obama administration . . .
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November 17, 2008 07:19 PM EST --
This is the kind of change we can count on from Obama. Its just more of the same old same old. It looks like justice will never be brought back to America. Obama is already letting the criminal that torture . . .
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December 20, 2008 06:34 PM EST --
Dick Cheney has publicly confessed to ordering war crimes. Asked about waterboarding in an ABC News interview, Cheney replied, "I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get . . .
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January 02, 2009 03:37 PM EST --
Australia will probably reject a US request to take in prisoners from the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, the acting prime minister has said.
Julia Gillard said Washington made the request in early . . .
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March 16, 2009 01:26 PM EDT --
One of the biggest campaign promises made by Obama seems to be disappearing swiftly as the administration settles into office. The first presidential act made by the new president was the order to terminate . . .
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April 16, 2009 07:49 PM EDT --
President Barack Obama absolved the CIA from prosecution for harsh, painful interrogation of terror suspects Thursday, even as his administration released Bush-era memos graphically detailing — and authorizing . . .
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April 21, 2009 05:27 PM EDT --
By JENNIFER LOVEN -- WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama left the door open Tuesday to prosecuting Bush administration officials who devised the legal authority for gruesome terror-suspect interrogations, . . .
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May 04, 2009 03:21 PM EDT --
"We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. ": U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, . . .
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May 13, 2009 08:43 AM EDT --
By Eugene Robinson
Can’t we send Dick Cheney back to Wyoming? Shouldn’t we chip in and buy him a home where the buffalo roam and there’s always room for one more crazy old coot down at the general . . .
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