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??? A short while ago the President of the United States vetoed a bill that was meant to prevent torture. It was supposed to outlaw torture in general and waterboarding in particular, but you can count on the incumbent US senate to screw up everything they touch. They passed a bill that "limits the treatment and interrogation techniques for anyone in U.S. custody to those authorized by the U.S. Army??s interrogations manual." 2 "creates a new Inspector General of the Intelligence Community I
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Now THIS is torture... BAGHDAD - U.S. authorities in Baghdad have received five severed fingers belonging to four Americans and an Austrian who were taken hostage more than a year ago in Iraq , U.S. officials said Wednesday. MORE ...
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Last week President Bush damaged America's reputation - perhaps irreparably - by vetoing legislation to prevent the Central Intelligence Agency from using "waterboarding" and other "coercive interrogation" techniques. These include beatings and sexual abuse, mock executions, withholding of food and water, and menacing by dogs. The law would have forced the CIA to use only army-approved techniques. The move confirmed President Bush's legacy as "the torture president". Then the US State Departm
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Then Democrats were denounced for not attempting to pass legislation barring torture and, in particular, waterboarding. Finally, both houses of Congress, ...
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Not calling waterboarding torture is about as torturous as former President Bill Clinton&39s discourse about the meaning of is: "It depends on what the ...Editorial: Granting CIA an exemption on torture ban is a disgrace San Jose Mercury News
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The CIA uses waterboarding on a case-by-case basis. History professor Daniel Thiery defined torture as the punishment of an accused offender, ...
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Crossposted at DailyKos I'd started this little project a little while back, wanting to learn more about the candidates for the CA-52 primary. So I sent each of the candidates 10 questions. Today it's Mike Lumpkin at bat! Mike has been kind enough to answer my questions, delayed through nobody's fault, but did involve a case of Pneumonia. Hope you're feeling better, Chris! So now, join me below the fold and learn a little more about Mike! And then visit his website to learn a little more, or
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Xinhua Updated: 2008-03-13 13:56 BEIJING - The Information Office of the State Council published a report titled "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2007" here on Thursday. Following is the full text: The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007 on March 11, 2008. As in previous years, the reports are full of accusations of the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China but mention
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For almost a month America's security has been at risk because Nancy Pelosi will not let the FISA bill that passed the Senate even come to a vote. She has had time though to work with her lap dog, Senator Reid to ram through a bill banning water boarding which the President thankfully vetoed. She is now working on a bill that renews FISA, but doesn't protect the phone companies that helped the United States when they were asked. It seems as if the Democratic Party position on terrorism is prote
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By Martin Kady II The Politico President Bush is about to hand Democrats major opportunity to again debate water boarding, torture and CIA interrogation ...
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The organization seeks to have the federal government reveal prisoners' accounts describing alleged mistreatment that were deleted from transcripts made publicly available. GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- The American Civil Liberties Union sued the federal government today to demand full disclosure of Guantanamo prisoners' descriptions of waterboarding and any other torture they said they suffered at the hands of CIA interrogators.
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New York's governor admits he made a boo boo and Republicans agree, waterboarding is NOT torture, plus breaking news about Southwest Airlines. National Headlines From Getthedaily.com - Your Online Source For News.
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Now we witness the gruesome spectacle of President Bush endorsing torture by vetoing the Bill from Congress outlawing "waterboarding" and other equivalently ...
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To the shame of the reporter and editors on this Times story, readers can find out the harsh truths about waterboarding torture in the very same Sunday ...
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More election fallout: After the absentee ballots were counted, a seat from Barcelona has been reassigned from CiU to the PP, giving CiU 10 seats and the PP 154 in the Congress of Deputies. Eduardo Zaplana, PP hard-liner and party spokesman, has resigned. About time. His negatives are extremely high, and they need to pick someone more moderate, both politically and personally. Madrid mayor Alberto Ruiz Gallardon, considered the most moderate and attractive among the current PP leadership, has
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Surf don??t Waterboard March 13, 2008 img: Alex Beco contributer: Maxim Bush vetoing legislation banning the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics is a dangerous precedent distinguishing the US from all other civilized nations recognizing the Geneva conventions. Bush??s veto prompted the protest of thirty retired admirals and generals who penned a letter to key democrats in congress urging them to defy the veto. It is often the most senior military officials wh
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McCain, in high dudgeon, upbraided Romney for declining to call waterboarding torture, and said that "How anybody could think that that kind of thing could ...
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And by depressing, I mean the way this documentary strips our government naked the way our government had soldiers strip detainees naked and point at their genitals. It's hard to watch and feels humiliating. Humiliating to be American and to know that these things were not only done, but done in our name, and quite clearly done with full knowledge that went all the way to the top. Starting with the death of a young taxi driver in Afghanistan named only Dilawar, the film traces the US govern
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USA, Murdered by Unknown Assassins With the insight of a true leader Congressman Ron Paul thinks we may be seeing the ???disintegration of the American Empire???. That cataclysmic prediction is supported by hosts of current realities. Although harbingers in the form of potentially fatal social and economic diseases have been apparent for several decades, life in the United States has gone on as if all is well with the world. Christian churches vested with the duty of supporting righteousness an
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From the Tom Perriello campaign:Rep. Virgil Goode recently cast two votes against ethical and moral standards. He voted to sustain President Bush's veto of a bill to ban the CIA from torturing H.R. 2082. He also voted against the establishment of an Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent panel designed to increase accountability and transparency in ethics enforcement H.Res. 895. "America's greatest strength has always been our moral leadership. When our leaders in Congress are votin
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The DoD Report documenting that there was NO connection been between Saddam Hussein??s regime and Al-Qaeda won??t be made available online, and the Pentagon cancelled a press release concerning it today. AmerBlg Why? ???Asked why the report would not be posted online and could not be emailed, the spokesman for Joint Forces Command said: "We're making the report available to anyone who wishes to have it, and we'll send it out via CD in the mail. Another Pentagon official said initial press repor
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The Washington Monthly has a moving set of essays by politicians, former military and intelligence officers, and former diplomats expressing their collective disgust with the Bush torture policy. The entire set is available as a pdf here. Here is the introduction: NO MORE No Torture. No Exceptions. In most issues of the Washington Monthly, we favor articles that we hope will launch a debate. In this issue we seek to end one. The unifying message of the articles that follow is, simply, Stop
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William Safire at the NYTimes gives some history of water tortures: The early phrase Chinese water torture described a cruel ordeal invented by Asian ancients. The purpose of slowly dripping water on the forehead until each little splash became unbearable was not ???to elicit information through harsh interrogation??? but to drive the victim mad. The water cure was described as the response by some American soldiers to atrocities by Filipino insurgents after our liberation of the Philippine Isl
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The current distinction between which arms of the US government may or may not torture are rendered irrelevant so long as any single arm may torture, ...No to Torture, Yes to the Constitution Antiwar.com
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Every week, the Watcher's Council members nominate two posts each, one from the Council members and one from outside for consideration by the whole Council. The complete list of this week's Council nominations can be found at the site of our fearless leader, the infamous Watcher of Weasels Do take the time and check out the non-Council links..they are always rewarding. Here's this week's lineup...and it's a great crop as always: Torture : Joshuapundit - President Bush vetoed a bill that pa
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For the attorney general, the answer to the question of whether waterboarding and, by clear implication, other techniques inflicting pain as a tool with ...
reason.com
The Fascination With Isolation: In real-life experiments, mental collapse comes quickly Michael Mechanic, March 14, 2008, Mother Jones When the late Donald O. Hebb, a psychologist at Montreal's McGill University, secured a grant from the Canadian Defence Research Board in 1951 to study how sensory isolation affects the human mind, he found that depriving a person of stimulation can break him in days. Peter Milner, then Hebb's graduate student and now a professor emeritus at McGill, was work
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I was in the audience yesterday for a speech by the Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Michael McConnell to the Foreign Affairs Symposium at Johns Hopkins University. I couldn't believe my ears when I thought I heard him defend "Waterboarding." So I checked the official transcript. Here's what he had to say in answer to a question from Dr. Steven R. David, Vice-Dean for Centers and Programs and Professor of Political Science: DR. DAVID: Let me talk about torture. Is waterboarding a form
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In recent weeks, the Bush administration has publicly confirmed that three of the 14 prisoners in question were subjected to ???waterboarding,??? an infamous ...ACLU sues to demand Guantanamo disclosures Los Angeles Times
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Pentagon Acknowledges Charleston Interrogation Tapes March 13, 2008 ?? 10:12 am The Pentagon acknowledged for the first time that some interrogations had been videotaped, pointing to nearly 50 tapes of interrogations at the local Navy base of suspected terrorists Jose Padilla and Ali al-Marri. One tape allegedly shows the ???forcible gagging of a terrorism suspect.??? Two government officials said that the tape showed Mr. Marri being manhandled by his interrogators, but did not show waterboarding
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Waterboarding the Truth.
??? A short while ago the President of the United States vetoed a bill that was meant to prevent torture. It was supposed to outlaw torture in general and waterboarding in particular, but you can count on the incumbent US senate to screw up everything they touch. They passed a bill that "limits the treatment and interrogation techniques for anyone in U.S. custody to those authorized by the U.S. Army??s interrogations manual." 2 "creates a new Inspector General of the Intelligence Community I
www.progressiveu.org
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It Ain't Waterboarding
Now THIS is torture... BAGHDAD - U.S. authorities in Baghdad have received five severed fingers belonging to four Americans and an Austrian who were taken hostage more than a year ago in Iraq , U.S. officials said Wednesday. MORE ...
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A Legacy of Torture
Last week President Bush damaged America's reputation - perhaps irreparably - by vetoing legislation to prevent the Central Intelligence Agency from using "waterboarding" and other "coercive interrogation" techniques. These include beatings and sexual abuse, mock executions, withholding of food and water, and menacing by dogs. The law would have forced the CIA to use only army-approved techniques. The move confirmed President Bush's legacy as "the torture president". Then the US State Departm
www.dialoginternational.com
Torture Now a Campaign Issue - Yahoo! News
Then Democrats were denounced for not attempting to pass legislation barring torture and, in particular, waterboarding. Finally, both houses of Congress, ...
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The Golden Rule - Antiwar.com
Not calling waterboarding torture is about as torturous as former President Bill Clinton&39s discourse about the meaning of is: "It depends on what the ...Editorial: Granting CIA an exemption on torture ban is a disgrace San Jose Mercury News
www.antiwar.com
Iona College faculty, students discuss torture, terrorism and warfare - Catholic News Service
The CIA uses waterboarding on a case-by-case basis. History professor Daniel Thiery defined torture as the punishment of an accused offender, ...
www.catholicnews.com
CA-52: Commander Mike Lumpkin answers 10 important questions
Crossposted at DailyKos I'd started this little project a little while back, wanting to learn more about the candidates for the CA-52 primary. So I sent each of the candidates 10 questions. Today it's Mike Lumpkin at bat! Mike has been kind enough to answer my questions, delayed through nobody's fault, but did involve a case of Pneumonia. Hope you're feeling better, Chris! So now, join me below the fold and learn a little more about Mike! And then visit his website to learn a little more, or
calitics.com
Full Text of Human Rights Record of United States in 2007
Xinhua Updated: 2008-03-13 13:56 BEIJING - The Information Office of the State Council published a report titled "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2007" here on Thursday. Following is the full text: The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007 on March 11, 2008. As in previous years, the reports are full of accusations of the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China but mention
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Democrats Still Holding YOUR Security Hostage
For almost a month America's security has been at risk because Nancy Pelosi will not let the FISA bill that passed the Senate even come to a vote. She has had time though to work with her lap dog, Senator Reid to ram through a bill banning water boarding which the President thankfully vetoed. She is now working on a bill that renews FISA, but doesn't protect the phone companies that helped the United States when they were asked. It seems as if the Democratic Party position on terrorism is prote
yidwithlid.blogspot.com
Waterboarding Debate Will Return With Bush Intel Veto - CBS News
By Martin Kady II The Politico President Bush is about to hand Democrats major opportunity to again debate water boarding, torture and CIA interrogation ...
www.cbsnews.com
ACLU sues to demand Guantanamo disclosures
The organization seeks to have the federal government reveal prisoners' accounts describing alleged mistreatment that were deleted from transcripts made publicly available. GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- The American Civil Liberties Union sued the federal government today to demand full disclosure of Guantanamo prisoners' descriptions of waterboarding and any other torture they said they suffered at the hands of CIA interrogators.
www.latimes.com
A Naughty NY Governor Resigns, Southwest In Trouble + More..
New York's governor admits he made a boo boo and Republicans agree, waterboarding is NOT torture, plus breaking news about Southwest Airlines. National Headlines From Getthedaily.com - Your Online Source For News.
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Torture? We&39ll just turn a very British blind eye - Daily Mail
Now we witness the gruesome spectacle of President Bush endorsing torture by vetoing the Bill from Congress outlawing "waterboarding" and other equivalently ...
www.dailymail.co.uk
The Torturous Logic of The New York Times - Huffington Post
To the shame of the reporter and editors on this Times story, readers can find out the harsh truths about waterboarding torture in the very same Sunday ...
www.huffingtonpost.com
More election fallout: After the absentee ballots were counted, a seat from Barcelona has been reassigned from CiU to the PP, giving CiU 10 seats and the PP 154 in the Congress of Deputies. Eduardo Zaplana, PP hard-liner and party spokesman, has resigned. About time. His negatives are extremely high, and they need to pick someone more moderate, both politically and personally. Madrid mayor Alberto Ruiz Gallardon, considered the most moderate and attractive among the current PP leadership, has
iberiannotes.blogspot.com
Surf don??t Waterboard
Surf don??t Waterboard March 13, 2008 img: Alex Beco contributer: Maxim Bush vetoing legislation banning the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics is a dangerous precedent distinguishing the US from all other civilized nations recognizing the Geneva conventions. Bush??s veto prompted the protest of thirty retired admirals and generals who penned a letter to key democrats in congress urging them to defy the veto. It is often the most senior military officials wh
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John McCain and waterboarding - Dallas Morning News
McCain, in high dudgeon, upbraided Romney for declining to call waterboarding torture, and said that "How anybody could think that that kind of thing could ...
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Taxi to the Really Depressing Side
And by depressing, I mean the way this documentary strips our government naked the way our government had soldiers strip detainees naked and point at their genitals. It's hard to watch and feels humiliating. Humiliating to be American and to know that these things were not only done, but done in our name, and quite clearly done with full knowledge that went all the way to the top. Starting with the death of a young taxi driver in Afghanistan named only Dilawar, the film traces the US govern
www.newspeakblog.com
Disintegration of American Empire
USA, Murdered by Unknown Assassins With the insight of a true leader Congressman Ron Paul thinks we may be seeing the ???disintegration of the American Empire???. That cataclysmic prediction is supported by hosts of current realities. Although harbingers in the form of potentially fatal social and economic diseases have been apparent for several decades, life in the United States has gone on as if all is well with the world. Christian churches vested with the duty of supporting righteousness an
novakeo.com
Goode votes against ethical reform, for torture
From the Tom Perriello campaign:Rep. Virgil Goode recently cast two votes against ethical and moral standards. He voted to sustain President Bush's veto of a bill to ban the CIA from torturing H.R. 2082. He also voted against the establishment of an Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent panel designed to increase accountability and transparency in ethics enforcement H.Res. 895. "America's greatest strength has always been our moral leadership. When our leaders in Congress are votin
www.democraticcentral.com
Bush Continues Weapons of Mass Politicization: Update
The DoD Report documenting that there was NO connection been between Saddam Hussein??s regime and Al-Qaeda won??t be made available online, and the Pentagon cancelled a press release concerning it today. AmerBlg Why? ???Asked why the report would not be posted online and could not be emailed, the spokesman for Joint Forces Command said: "We're making the report available to anyone who wishes to have it, and we'll send it out via CD in the mail. Another Pentagon official said initial press repor
desertbeacon.blogspot.com
Washington Monthly: No Torture. No Exceptions.
The Washington Monthly has a moving set of essays by politicians, former military and intelligence officers, and former diplomats expressing their collective disgust with the Bush torture policy. The entire set is available as a pdf here. Here is the introduction: NO MORE No Torture. No Exceptions. In most issues of the Washington Monthly, we favor articles that we hope will launch a debate. In this issue we seek to end one. The unifying message of the articles that follow is, simply, Stop
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Waterboarding cure is torture
William Safire at the NYTimes gives some history of water tortures: The early phrase Chinese water torture described a cruel ordeal invented by Asian ancients. The purpose of slowly dripping water on the forehead until each little splash became unbearable was not ???to elicit information through harsh interrogation??? but to drive the victim mad. The water cure was described as the response by some American soldiers to atrocities by Filipino insurgents after our liberation of the Philippine Isl
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Alice In Waterboard-Land - CBS News
The current distinction between which arms of the US government may or may not torture are rendered irrelevant so long as any single arm may torture, ...No to Torture, Yes to the Constitution Antiwar.com
www.cbsnews.com
Watcher's Council Nominations,3/12/08
Every week, the Watcher's Council members nominate two posts each, one from the Council members and one from outside for consideration by the whole Council. The complete list of this week's Council nominations can be found at the site of our fearless leader, the infamous Watcher of Weasels Do take the time and check out the non-Council links..they are always rewarding. Here's this week's lineup...and it's a great crop as always: Torture : Joshuapundit - President Bush vetoed a bill that pa
joshuapundit.blogspot.com
Bob Barr on Torture - Reason Online
For the attorney general, the answer to the question of whether waterboarding and, by clear implication, other techniques inflicting pain as a tool with ...
reason.com
RAISING THE OBVIOUS QUESTION...:
The Fascination With Isolation: In real-life experiments, mental collapse comes quickly Michael Mechanic, March 14, 2008, Mother Jones When the late Donald O. Hebb, a psychologist at Montreal's McGill University, secured a grant from the Canadian Defence Research Board in 1951 to study how sensory isolation affects the human mind, he found that depriving a person of stimulation can break him in days. Peter Milner, then Hebb's graduate student and now a professor emeritus at McGill, was work
brothersjuddblog.com
DNI McConnell Defends "Waterboarding" at Johns Hopkins
I was in the audience yesterday for a speech by the Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Michael McConnell to the Foreign Affairs Symposium at Johns Hopkins University. I couldn't believe my ears when I thought I heard him defend "Waterboarding." So I checked the official transcript. Here's what he had to say in answer to a question from Dr. Steven R. David, Vice-Dean for Centers and Programs and Professor of Political Science: DR. DAVID: Let me talk about torture. Is waterboarding a form
laurencejarvikonline.blogspot.com
ACLU Sues To Uncover Records Detailing Torture And Abuse Of ... - Common Dreams press release
In recent weeks, the Bush administration has publicly confirmed that three of the 14 prisoners in question were subjected to ???waterboarding,??? an infamous ...ACLU sues to demand Guantanamo disclosures Los Angeles Times
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Pentagon Acknowledges Charleston Interrogation Tapes
Pentagon Acknowledges Charleston Interrogation Tapes March 13, 2008 ?? 10:12 am The Pentagon acknowledged for the first time that some interrogations had been videotaped, pointing to nearly 50 tapes of interrogations at the local Navy base of suspected terrorists Jose Padilla and Ali al-Marri. One tape allegedly shows the ???forcible gagging of a terrorism suspect.??? Two government officials said that the tape showed Mr. Marri being manhandled by his interrogators, but did not show waterboarding
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