Tag: torture
member name: Jack E.
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December 14, 2009 05:50 AM EST --
Mercenaries and Assassins
By Bill Van Auken
Reports that mercenaries employed by the notorious Blackwater-Xe military contracting firm participated in CIA assassinations in Iraq and Afghanistan . . .
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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November 20, 2009 11:47 AM EST --
ABC News Finds the Location of a "Black Site" for Alleged Terrorists in Lithuania
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, . . .
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December 06, 2009 11:27 AM EST --
Ronald Reagan, May 20, 1988, transmitting the Convention Against Torture to the Senate for ratification:
By Glenn Greenwald
The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation . . .
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November 13, 2008 12:13 PM EST --
Why you shouldn't expect Guantanamo to close any time soon.
The Associated Press reported Monday that advisors to President-Elect Barack Obama "are quietly crafting a proposal to ship . . .
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November 18, 2008 07:46 AM EST --
During the presidential campaign, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain both promised to close the detention center for terrorists at Guantanamo. One week after Obama became president-elect, . . .
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February 16, 2009 07:53 AM EST --
By Jason Leopold -- A key line in George W. Bush’s defense against war crimes charges has weakened with the disclosure that an internal Justice Department watchdog has concluded that the legal advice, . . .
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May 28, 2009 11:01 PM EDT --
At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.
Further photographs are said to depict sexual . . .
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November 22, 2009 05:15 PM EST --
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves
It is not too late for President . . .
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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 21, 2009 09:45 AM EST --
By Massimo Calabresi
President Barack Obama will miss his self-imposed Jan. 22 deadline to close down the military detention center at Guantánamo Bay. But sources familiar with the issue . . .
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December 11, 2008 01:23 PM EST --
By Ray McGovern -- You’ve got to hand it to them. Torture aficionados at the White House and CIA have conned key congressional leaders into insisting not only that torture-lite would be a swell idea, . . .
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