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. 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 [...]

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Fox News’ senior judicial analyst made some surprising remarks Saturday that may go against the grain at his conservative network. By David Edwards, AlterNet, July 12, 2010 | Fox News’ senior judicial analyst made some surprising remarks Saturday that may go against the grain at his conservative network. In a interview with Ralph Nader on [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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