Posted in Torture, Waterboarding, tagged Bruce Jessen, CIA's $1000 a Day Specialists, CIA's interrogation program, Interrogations, Jim Mitchell, Mitchell Jessen and Associates, Torture, Waterboarding on April 30, 2009 | Comments Off
The CIA’s $1,000 a Day Specialists on Waterboarding, Interrogations
The New Focus on Two Retired Military Psychologists Called the ‘Architects’ of the CIA’s Techniques
ABC News- By BRIAN ROSS, MATTHEW COLE, and JOSEPH RHEE
April 30, 2009
As the secrets about the CIA’s interrogation techniques continue to come out, there’s new information about the frequency and severity of their [...]
Posted in Torture, Waterboarding, tagged Condoleezza Rice, Illegal, Politics News, Precedent, Richard Nixon, Stanford Speech, Torture, UN convention against torture, Waterboarding on April 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Rice Channels Nixon: Since The President Authorized Torture, That Makes It Legal
Think Progress- By Ali Frick at 9:40 am
Recently, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke with some students at Stanford University, where she is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute. When a student asked whether Rice had authorized torture, she refused to [...]
Posted in Craigslist Killer, Philip Markoff, tagged Craigslist Killer, Craigslist Killer Women's Panties, Crime, Home News, Julissa Brisman, Philip Markoff, Philip Markoff Women's Panties on April 29, 2009 | Comments Off
Philip Markoff, Alleged Craigslist Killer, Had 16 Pairs Of Women’s Panties And 60 Pairs Of Flex-Cuffs In His Home
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham [...]
Posted in Keith Olbermann, Sean Hannity, Waterboarding, tagged Hannity Waterboarding, Hannity Waterboarding Offer, Keith Olbermann, Keith Olbermann And Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann Sean Hannity Waterboarding, Media News, Sean Hannity on April 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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Hannity Waterboard Offer: Olbermann Increases The Pressure
DAVID BAUDER | April 28, 2009 09:03 PM EST |
NEW YORK — The debate over torture is getting personal for two of cable TV’s prime-time hosts. After Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity made a seemingly impromptu offer last week to undergo waterboarding as a benefit for charity, [...]
Posted in Arlen Specter, Democratic Party, Republican Party, tagged Arlen Specter, Politics News, Specter Democrat, Specter Full Statement, Specter Party Switch, Specter Switch, Specter Switching Parties on April 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Specter To Switch Parties And Run As A Democrat In 2010
Think Progress- By Amanda Terkel at 12:05 pm
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter today announced that he will be switching his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and will run in 2010 as a Democrat. The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza writes:
Specter’s decision would give Democrats a [...]
Posted in Bush Administration, CIA, Cheney, Criminals In the White House, George W. Bush, Torture, tagged “Bush Program”, CIA, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, memos, President Bush, President Obama, torture issue, torture techniques, torture trail, White House on April 27, 2009 | Comments Off
By Scott Horton | Harper’s Magazine, April 27, 2009
The torture trail starts and ends in the White House. That is perhaps the most inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the flurry of documents released in the last week—first the OLC memoranda, then a newly declassified report of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and finally an [...]
Posted in Glenn Beck, tagged borderline schizophrenic, Conservative Suckers, Glenn Beck, Mental illness, paranoid right-wing, Savvy Fraud on April 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Glenn Beck: A Savvy Fraud Who Knows Just How to Please His Audience of Conservative Suckers
By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. Posted April 27, 2009.
The faux right-wing pundit is laughing and crying in the backseat of his stretch limo, all the way to the bank.
Fox News host Glenn Beck has done all the [...]
Posted in America, Bush Administration, CIA, George W. Bush, tagged Bush Administration, CIA's secret prisons, Gitanjali Gutierrez, HR organisations, President George W. Bush, United States on April 26, 2009 | Comments Off
By William Fisher | Inter Press Service News
NEW YORK, Apr 24 (IPS) – At least three dozen detainees who were held in the CIA’s secret prisons overseas appear to be missing – and efforts by human rights organisations to track their whereabouts have been unsuccessful.
The story of these “ghost prisoners” was comprehensively documented last week [...]
Posted in Rush Limbaugh, tagged hijackers of the Maersk Alabama ship, President Obama, race issue, Rush Limbaugh, Shane Murphy on April 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Second-in-command of hijacked ship blasts Rush Limbaugh’s ‘disgusting’ comments
Think Progress- By Amanda Terkel at 5:43 pm
Earlier this month, hate radio host Rush Limbaugh brought attention to the fact that the hijackers of the Maersk Alabama ship were “black Muslim teenagers.” “Now, just imagine the hue and cry had a Republican president ordered the shooting of [...]
Posted in Israel, Peace, tagged B'Tselem, east Jerusalem, ethnic cleansing, home demolition orders, human rights, Israel, Mairead Maguire, Palestinians on April 23, 2009 | Comments Off
Khaleej Times Online, April 23, 2009
AFP
JERUSALEM – Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire on Tuesday accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” policies in annexed east Jerusalem, where the municipality plans to tear down almost 90 Arab homes.
“I believe the Israeli government is carrying out a policy of ethnic cleansing against Palestinians here in east Jerusalem,” said Maguire, [...]
Posted in Terrorism, Torture, US President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Waterboarding, war crimes on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
by betmo
there have been innumerable assaults on the constitution- pretty much from its inception. the john adams contingent has not been pleased that ‘the great unwashed’ was given any say whatsoever in their own governance. those descendants we see today splashed all over fox noise, hate radio, state and local governments, [...]
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