Category: Torture
By Nail Em Up on Jul 6, 2011 in 9/11, Abuse, AfPak Border, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Censorship, Civil Liberties & Rights, Civil Rights, Current Affairs, Entertainment, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Hollywood, Human Rights, Islam, Jihadists, Media, Print, Media, Television, Muslim, Muslims & Arabs, National Defense, National Security, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Taliban, Terrorism, Torture, Women and Children, World | View Comments
The tense relationship between Pakistan and the United States has often been described as a bad marriage. Like a couple teetering on divorce but frozen in mutually dependent inertia, the U.S. wants one thing while Pakistan wants another, at least most of the time. This love-hate relationship long precedes the September 11th attacks. The last [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Aug 26, 2010 in Abuse, Crime, Current Affairs, DNC, Death Threats, Education, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Islam, Misogyny, Muslim, Obama Administration, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sexism, Taliban, Terrorism, Torture, Women and Children, Women's Suffrage | View Comments
Recently, the United States celebrated the 90th anniversary of women’s right to vote. That right was won by the significant efforts of a number of women, many of whom were jailed, beaten, and starved, fighting for this right. We honor them, and all that they have made possible for us 90 years later. Now we [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Aug 16, 2010 in 9/11, Abuse, Current Affairs, Death Threats, Foreign Affairs, Gender Bias, Human Rights, Islam, Misogyny, Muslim, Muslims & Arabs, Saudi Arabia, Sharia Law, Somalia, Torture, Women and Children | View Comments
In the recent special on an “honor killing” in Texas, an activist, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, spoke out about the treatment of women in Islam. Hirsi Ali knows a lot about how women are treated having grown up in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya. She has survived the genital mutilation that was (is) common in her [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Nov 28, 2009 in Congress (House & Senate), Counterterrorism, Crime, Current Affairs, Soldiers/Veterans, Terrorism, Torture | View Comments
* bumped up because this is an infuriating story that every American should know about * I’ve been reading a book by the novelist, Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures. If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Flynn’s books, they typically deal with the CIA, Washington, DC, and how politics affect the intelligence community, following the exploits of [...]
By SusanUnPC on May 25, 2009 in Torture | View 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 methods [...]
By SusanUnPC on May 23, 2009 in Bush administration, Bush/Cheney, Current Affairs, Dick Cheney, Media, Radio, Torture | View 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 | View Comments
Bumped up from early Friday morning. Editor: Reprinted in full with Col. Wilkerson’s and Steve Clemons’ express permission from The Washington Note. ______________________________________ 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 [...]
By John Batchelor on May 15, 2009 in Dick Cheney, Torture | View 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 Windrem, following [...]
By SusanUnPC on May 13, 2009 in Current Affairs, Torture | View 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 | View 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 of Thunderbird white [...]
By Steve Clemons on May 6, 2009 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, GWOT, Terrorism, Torture | View 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 | View Comments
NOTE: You can read the entire chat — including Larry Johnson’s remarks and debates with other guests — and view all of the videos that we displayed during the chat. Just click on the big arrow. 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 | View 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 | View 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 commentary [...]
By Mel Goodman on Apr 28, 2009 in CIA, President Barack Obama, Torture | View 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 [...]
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