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Daily Archives: April 18, 2009
If You Can Get Over It, Is It Torture?
In the Bush torture memos, Dahlia Lithwick sees a pattern. After an incident, if the prisoner is given an opportunity to recover, or is not permanently injured, it isn’t torture: Laced like cynical poison through the four newly released Justice Department torture memos … Continue reading
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Mike Allen’s Orwellian Description of Bush Era Torture: “Aggressive interrogation practices critics decried as torture.”
Glenn Greenwald lets loose: Politico’s Mike Allen — in the same article where he granted anonymity to a cowardly “top Bush official” to do nothing other than smear Obama as a friend of Al Qaeda (and marvel at Allen’s pathetic … Continue reading
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Tagged Abu Ghraib, ACLU, bush era torture, civil rights, George Orwell, Glenn Greenwald, Mike Allen, newspeak, Politics, torture
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Prometheus Unbound 