Category: TortureBy SusanUnPC on May 25, 2009 in Torture | 149 Comments
“You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.”
You tell ‘em, Jesse! Former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura is hitting the nationwide media circuit and waterboarding proponents on the right. As Jesse knows from his SEAL training, a trained interrogator can, through coercive [...]
By SusanUnPC on May 23, 2009 in Bush administration, Bush/Cheney, Current Affairs, Dick Cheney, Media, Radio, Torture | 120 Comments
Before looking at Cheney’s efforts to cash in on torture, check out a Chicago rightwing radio host who initially believed waterboarding was not torture:
If you want to read what all the bloggers are saying about the experiment by WLS radio host Erich “Mancow” Muller, go here. It is VITAL to note that this man [...]
By Col Lawrence B Wilkerson on May 16, 2009 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, Bush administration, Bush/Cheney, Terrorism, Torture | 130 Comments
Bumped up from early Friday morning.
Editor: Reprinted in full with Col. Wilkerson’s and Steve Clemons’ express permission from The Washington Note.
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This is a guest post exclusive to The Washington Note by Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who is former chief of staff of the Department of State during the term of Secretary of State [...]
By John Batchelor on May 15, 2009 in Dick Cheney, Torture | 19 Comments
Sheldon Whitehouse, Democratic junior senator from Rhode Island, wades thigh deep into the mighty partisan swamp of torture with back to back performances on cable, CNN followed by MSNBC, commenting on a peculiar and melodramatic revelation from Charles Duelfer, the Iraq WMD searcher. The story is told in the Daily Beast by Robert [...]
By SusanUnPC on May 13, 2009 in Current Affairs, Torture | 34 Comments
Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent who actually interrogated a terrorist and did not hear about it from someone who watched a lame episode of “24,” confronted the U.S. Senate today and upheld the rule of law rather than the rule of brute force. Here is a critical passage from Soufan’s prepared testimony followed by [...]
By SusanUnPC on May 11, 2009 in Jane Harman, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Torture | 96 Comments
Nancy Pelosi, you’re worse than a 15-year-old getting grilled by angry parental units who caught their kid trying to sneak into the house in the middle of the night. You try in vain to compose creative lies, each one more laughable than the last, while battling the intoxicating effect of a gallon [...]
By Steve Clemons on May 6, 2009 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, GWOT, Terrorism, Torture | 19 Comments
Joseph Margulies in the Los Angeles Times offers anyone who wants to defend the Bush administration’s embrace of torture a chilling retort.
His bottom line: the administration sold out the values Americans cherish most to torture not a kingpin in the al Qaeda network, but a clerk.
Margulies writes:
By SusanUnPC on May 3, 2009 in Current Affairs, NoQuarterUSA Live Chat (blog), Torture | 9 Comments
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Join our great friend and writer, Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy, and me for a wide-open discussion on torture — [...]
By Pat Racimora on May 2, 2009 in Christianity, Current Affairs, Religion, Torture | 45 Comments
“Church Goers Like Torture More!”
“The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists.”
“Support for terror suspect torture differs among the faithful.”
By Steve Clemons on Apr 30, 2009 in Current Affairs, President Barack Obama, Torture | 82 Comments
Barack Obama’s press conference last night punctuating the ritualistic 100-day review of new presidencies showed this President at his best I think — thoughtful, human, willing to take quite a roster of questions, and well . . . wonky.
But Guardian US editor at large Michael Tomasky found a pretty significant error in Obama’s [...]
By Mel Goodman on Apr 28, 2009 in CIA, President Barack Obama, Torture | 73 Comments
(bumped up from Monday)
To: The President of the United States
Fm: Melvin A. Goodman
Date: April 25, 2009
Subj: Recommendations for Dealing with the CIA on Issues of Torture and Abuse
President Obama is displaying ambivalence in handling the issue of torture and abuse. He clearly wants to do the right thing and, as [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 27, 2009 in CIA, Congress (House & Senate), Elizabeth Warren, Intelligence, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, TARP, Torture | 120 Comments
(bumped up and updated extensively)
HOT UPDATE: John Boehner is taking it right to Nancy, proving that “what goes around comes around,” and that Obama just did NOT think through the torture memo “blowback.”
Politico’s Glenn Thrush reports that Rep. Boehner is “asking the Obama administration to release CIA notes taken during a 2002 briefing session [...]
By American Girl in Italy on Apr 26, 2009 in Barack Obama, Bush administration, Colin Powell, Current Affairs, George Bush, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Torture | 108 Comments
(Bumped up from early morning.)
In my earlier post, holder: obama does not decide who will be prosecuted, I wrote,
“It appears Obama opened a whole can of worms with the release of these memos. Not only does he lack the authority to decide whether there will be prosecutions or not, I assume he also put members [...]
By Larry Johnson on Apr 26, 2009 in Current Affairs, Intelligence, MSNBC, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Torture | 259 Comments
(bumped up from Friday evening)
Although Keith Olbermann has become something of an insufferable boor, he is finally on to something that I would pay money to watch but under specific conditions. First, check out Keith’s challenge:
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
But here’s where I differ with Olbermann’s challenge. [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 25, 2009 in Bush administration, Torture | 47 Comments
Okay, I am VERY curious. I want to ask all of you something:
By SusanUnPC on Apr 25, 2009 in CIA, Congress (House & Senate), House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Intelligence, President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Torture | 115 Comments
Now that President Obama has teed her up — by releasing documents before he thought out all the possible repercussions (except, he thought, to make his MoveOn crowd happy [as if]) — Nancy Pelosi is yowling loudly no way no how, no siree, au contraire, that she was aware that she and lead Congressional members [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 25, 2009 in Bush/Cheney, CIA, Current Affairs, Intelligence, Torture | 41 Comments
Tyler Drumheller had a distinguished career in the CIA and was chief of the CIA’s covert operations in Europe at the time that the Bush administration was cooking the facts to justify going to war against Iraq. Since he was in Europe, he had intimate knowledge of the infamous “Curveball,” being held in Germany, and [...]
By John Batchelor on Apr 24, 2009 in Dept. of Justice (Obama), Obama Administration, Torture | 22 Comments
White House Plans to Release More Documents — and Photographs, Too.
Congressional leaders met on Thursday with POTUS at the White House to discuss comity, yet what dominated the headlines afterward were the Torture Memos. House GOP Leader John Boehner asked POTUS to release the documents that explicate what intelligence the Bush administration actually obtained from [...]
By John Batchelor on Apr 24, 2009 in Bush/Cheney, Dick Cheney, DoD, President Barack Obama, Torture | 102 Comments
The Wall Street Journal Inquires Re The Torture Memos.
“So the CIA requests a legal review … - and, seven years later, Mr. Obama says only the legal advisers who are no longer in government should be investigated…Is this President going to put his predecessor in the dock too?”
By SusanUnPC on Apr 23, 2009 in Intelligence, Torture | 28 Comments
First, here is a graphic scene of torture carried out in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that “shows a member of the country’s royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails.” The video and article (WARNING: the article is far more graphic) were featured on ABC’s [...]
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