Archive for the 'torture' Category
War Criminals
Posted on October 15, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, CIA, torture, war crimes | Leave a Comment
What did they do to our country?
Reporting I Can’t Take Seriously
Posted on June 27, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under CNN, the media, torture | Leave a Comment
A CNN Political Ticker piece about one of the distractions Republicans are using to focus attention away from the meat of yesterday’s House hearings on torture lost me after a paragraph and a half.
A Democratic lawmaker’s comment that he was “glad” that a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney could be identified by al [...]
Take That, Jon Stewart!
Posted on April 22, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, John Ashcroft, detainee abuse, torture, waterboarding | Leave a Comment
Oh, thank goodness. For a while there the world had turned topsy-turvy; John Ashcroft appeared to have been the closest thing to a voice of reason in the early days of the Torture White House. Fortunately, Ashcroft is here to set the record straight.
Yesterday, former attorney general John Ashcroft spoke at St. John’s University on [...]
The Maverick Equivocates Some More On Torture
Posted on April 14, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain, torture | Leave a Comment
John “The Straight Talking Maverick Who Stands Up To His Party’s Own President On Torture Because He Never Compromises His Principles For Anyone, Ever” McCain didn’t so much stand up to Bush on torture when answering a journalist’s question at today’s The AP Slobs McCain’s Knob Festival ‘08. When asked to comment on the use [...]
We think the same things at the same time, we just can’t do anything about it. So don’t ask me ask the ministry, so don’t ask me ask the ministry
Posted on April 10, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, John Ashcroft, detainee abuse, torture, war crimes | Leave a Comment
The big news this morning is ABC’s torture scoop:
In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News.
The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings [...]
Hey, New York Times: You Suck!
Posted on April 2, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, John Yoo, New York Times, detainee abuse, the media, torture | Leave a Comment
’03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations
Way to euphemize your own article, NYT headline person. The White House declared all laws designed to prohibit torture to be irrelevant to its conduct. That’s what the memo says and that’s what your reporting says; why does the headline need to be shrouded in bullshit about “harsh interrogations”?
For the [...]
The Yoo Memo Is Freed
Posted on April 1, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Department of Justice, John Yoo, detainee abuse, torture, war crimes | Leave a Comment
Time to fire up the international war crimes tribunal!
Federal laws prohibiting assault and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president’s ultimate authority as commander-in-chief overrode such statutes, according to a newly declassified 2003 Justice Department memo released today.
The memo–which was rescinded just nine months after it was [...]
