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The Bush-Cheney Years
Nostalgic? From the just declassified May 2004 inspector general’s review of CIA interrogations: Sometime between 28 December 2002 and 1 January 2003, the debriefer used an unloaded semi-automatic handgun as a prop to frighten Al-Nashiri into disclosing information. After discussing … Continue reading →
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Debating Torture and the Law at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Scott Horton v. Stu Taylor:
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Tagged America, Barack Obama, California, Dick Cheney, extraordinary rendition, George Orwell, habeus corpus, Jesus, law, Santa Barbara, terrorism, torture
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Bush Era Torture Lawyers and the Banality of Evil
A passage from one of the Bush era torture memos set to music: Waterboarding, by the way, as a torture method, goes back to the Spanish Inquisition. Here’s how Jonathan Kirsch describes waterboarding in his excellent and troubling 2008 Harper-Collins … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, civil rights, comedy, George Bush, habeus corpus, horror, irony, Jonathan Kirsch, music, rush limbaugh, torture, waterboarding
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Rush Limbaugh Defends Bush Era Torture
Unsurprisingly, Rush Limbaugh offers a full throated authoritarian’s defense of torture. And please recall that the torture he condones is being done upon people who have been denied any due process. In other words, they may well be innocent of what the … Continue reading →
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A Historic Document on Torture: Captain Ian Fishback’s Letter to John McCain, September 16, 2005
Ian Fishback risked his career trying to get answers to the torture question. Andrew Sullivan calls Fishback’s letter, in 2005, a historic document, and thinks that Fishback should be TIME’s “Man of the Year.” Here’s Fishback’s letter: Dear Senator McCain: … Continue reading →
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Tagged Afghanistan, Barack Obama, geneva conventions, habeus corpus, ian fishback, Iran, Iraq, John McCain, rush limbaugh, time magazine, torture
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Countdown to January 20th, 2009: Our Long National Nightmare is Almost Over, and We’ll Have Our Democracy Back Very Soon
If you haven’t seen the disorienting public television documentary, Torturing Democracy, it’s here. Putting an end to George Bush’s Pinochet-style torture regime is yet one more reason why Barack Obama’s election to the Presidency was so important this year.
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Tagged 14th amendment, 44, America, Barack Obama, freedom, George Bush, habeus corpus, law, philosophy, Politics, torture
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Forbes Magazine Says That a US CITIZEN, Inside the US, Was Given GITMO-Style Torture on a Military Base, and Was Literally Driven INSANE. What’s Happened to Our Constitution Over the Past Eight Years? No 5th Amendment Protection Against Torture? No Habeus Corpus Rights for a US Citizen?
Forbes magazine, printing an AP report, says that: A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a U.S. military brig, according to documents … Continue reading →
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Obama Stands Up For the Constitution Against VP-Pick Sarah Palin’s Dismissive Cynicism Toward Habeus Corpus (Due Process on Being Taken into Custody)
When Sarah Palin spoke at the 2008 Republican Convention she made a dismissive comment (in the speech written for her) about reading Miranda-like rights to captured terror suspects. And on Sept. 8, 2008, The Washington Post reported Barack Obama’s retort. … Continue reading →
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