14 October 2011 | CIA, News, Sibel Edmonds, Torture | Angela Keaton
From Boiling Frogs: Leading scholars and human rights groups from a range of fields — including psychology, medicine, law, military, and intelligence — have joined together in spearheading a broad-based effort to annul and delegitimize the American Psychological Association’s deeply flawed 2005 Report of the Presidential Task Force on Psychological Ethics and National Security (the [...]
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25 October 2010 | Iraq, News, Torture | Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
This has got to be the quote of the day — maybe the week, maybe the month. After agreeing all around on FOX News’ Special Report tonight that there was “nothing there, there” in the 400k documents dumped by WikiLeaks on Friday (a massive release of classified reports that martyr-hero-analyst Juan Williams deemed “unnecessary and [...]
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15 June 2010 | Guantánamo, News, Torture, War crimes | Scott Horton
Breaking: Twenty-Four Anti-Torture Activists Acquitted in Trial for Protest at the US Capitol Calling for Guantanamo’s Closure and the Investigation of Deaths at the Prison. From WitnessTorture.org: On Monday, June 14, twenty-four activists with Witness Against Torture were acquitted in Washington, D.C. Superior Court of charges of “unlawful entry with disorderly conduct.” The charges stemmed [...]
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02 August 2009 | Iraq, Propaganda, Saddam Hussein, Torture, US Military | Matt Barganier
For just one example of the disgusting exploitation of Capt. Scott Speicher by pro-war officials and pundits, I give you this from Jed Babbin on March 23, 2003, three days after the invasion of Iraq began: He [Speicher] may still be alive in Iraq, rumored to have been kept as a personal torture toy for [...]
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22 May 2009 | News, Torture | Scott Horton
Radio host “Mancow” has apparently been defending the water torture. Perhaps those days are now over.
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22 May 2009 | Barack Obama, Civil liberties, Progressives, Torture, War on Terror | Matt Barganier
Rachel Maddow, on the other hand, appears to be a keeper. In the clip below, she explains how President Obama, principled opponent of prosecuting or even investigating past crimes, plans to lock people up for future crimes. Forever. To be fair, that is literally progressive. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uuWVHT1WUY[/youtube]
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