. Rick Santorum says John McCain doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to torture Crooks and Liars- By David Neiwert May 18, 2011 07:00 AM Well, there’s a frothy mixture of stupidity and arrogance for ya: HUGH HEWITT: Now your former colleague, John McCain, said look, there’s no record, there’s no evidence [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Torture’
Santorum Says McCain Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About When It Comes To Torture (VIDEO)
Posted in John McCain, Rick Santorum, Torture, Video, tagged John McCain, Rick Santorum, Torture, Video on May 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Report: The CIA Performed Human Experiments on Prisoners Under Bush
Posted in Bush Administration, CIA, Torture, tagged and escape, binyan mohamed, Bush Administration, CIA, enhanced interrogation te, evasion, experiments in torture, Office of Legal Counsel, resistance, sere, survival, Torture, torture memos, tuskegee syphilis study on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Shocking New Report: The CIA Performed Human Experiments on Prisoners Under Bush AlterNet / By Stephen Soldz A new report details how the effects of torture on detainees were closely studied in order to perfect ‘enhanced interrogation techniques.’ June 7, 2010 | Over the last year there have been an increasing number of accounts suggesting [...]
America, this is Yoo
Posted in ACLU, Criminals In the White House, Gitmo Prisoners, Justice Department, tagged accountability, ACLU, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Guantanimo, justice, Torture, torture memos, UC Berkely, Yoo on April 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The Berkeley Daily Planet Cornell, TP and Yoo From Matt Cornell Tuesday April 20, 2010 According to a press release from Los Angeles artist Matt Cornell, students at UC Berkeley were surprised to discover a new brand of toilet paper in the stalls of the law school building this morning. Cornell made a private donation [...]
Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about ‘line’ it ’should not cross’
Posted in 911, ACLU, Bush Administration, Rumsfeld, tagged 9/11 Commission, ACLU, Bush Administration, Bush Administration officials, David Addington, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, IA Director George J. Tenet, Torture on March 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sahil Kapur, Raw Story, March 17, 2010 Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU. The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary [...]
Lawyers and Journalists’ Group See No End in Sight to the Controversy over Bush “Torture Lawyers”
Posted in John Yoo, Torture, torture memos, tagged Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Justice Robert Jackson Steering Committee, Torture, Torture Lawyers, torture memos on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
by The Robert Jackson Steering Committee – 2010-02-23 The Justice Robert Jackson Steering Committee, a group of lawyers, journalists and advocates formed in the fall of 2008 to pursue the prosecution of top Bush administration officials for alleged war crimes while in office, is both greatly concerned and guardedly hopeful by the recent release of [...]
John Yoo: President Could Order Village Of Civilians Massacred
Posted in John Yoo, Justice Department, Torture, torture memos, tagged Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Justice Department, Office of Legal Counsel, Office of Professional Responsibility, Torture on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yoo: ‘Sure,’ The President Could Order A Village Of Civilians Massacred TPM Muckraker Justin Elliott | February 22, 2010, 10:10AM In John Yoo’s vision of executive power, the president can legally order a village of civilians “massacred,” according to the internal Justice Department report released Friday. But in a letter (.pdf) sent to the DOJ [...]
UK called to account over torture allegations
Posted in Torture, tagged Binyam Mohamed, Guantánamo, MI5, MI6, The Equality and Human Rights Commission, Torture, Trevor Phillips, UK, United Nations Committee against Torture on February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From The Times February 20, 2010 Frances Gibb, Legal Editor, and Sean O’Neill, Security Editor The Government’s own human rights watchdog has demanded a public inquiry into claims that British intelligence agencies were complicit in the torture of more than 20 detainees in the War on Terror, The Times has learnt. The Equality and Human [...]
Abdulmuttalab Has Been Providing Intel On Al Qaeda
Posted in Al Qaeda, Al Qaida, President Obama, Torture, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tagged Abdulmuttalab, Al Qaeda, Christmas day bomber, President Obama, Torture, Umar Farouq Abdulmuttalab, Underpants Bomber on February 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Thanks To Obama’s Rejection Of Torture, Abdulmuttalab Has Been Providing Intel On Al Qaeda Think Progress- By Matt Duss at 12:35 pm President Obama’s counter-terrorism approach — especially his decision to publicly reject torture — received a huge vindication yesterday with the news that the FBI has been working with the family of the failed [...]
Former CIA Op: Claimed Waterboarding Worked Admits He Was Wrong
Posted in CIA, Torture, Waterboarding, tagged CIA, CIA operative, John Kiriakou, The Reluctant Spy, Torture, Zubadayah on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
CIA Man Who Claimed Waterboarding Worked Admits He Was Wrong TPM Muckraker Rachel Slajda | January 27, 2010, 9:33AM In his new book, the former CIA operative who made the bombshell — and thoroughly debunked — claim that a terrorism suspect was made to talk after one waterboarding session has admitted he was wrong. John [...]













