Would you sell your soul to the CIA for $81 million?
That's what it took for two military psychiatrists to serve as cheerleaders and overseers for the torture program.The NYTimes article Senate Torture Report Shows C.I.A. Infighting Over Interrogation...
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ACLU Ignites Controversy - Executive Director Suggests Pardoning Those Guilty...
Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU/American Civil Liberties Union, posted an editorial in the New York Times, Monday, offering a very radical solution for handling the perpetrators of...
View ArticleThe Torture-Free TRUE Story of The Best USMC Interrogator in WWII [Important...
If you are looking for a sledgehammer to crush Cheney's conceit that "torture worked," here's the story and the memo that sucks the air out of any apologist's arguments for torture. Forever and...
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American lives are in danger now because USA is NOT prosecuting War Criminals
It is not the Torture Report that is putting America lives in danger. What is putting American lives in danger, right now, is America's refusal to prosecute those who committed war crimes.Currently,...
View ArticleWe Were Doing The People's Will
Utter, complete, absolute bullshit.First off, Mr. Hayden, do not pretend to speak for anyone but yourself and the lying, bullshit regime you represent. You did not speak for us. You did not act on our...
View Article2009 The Nation. How the architects of the torture programs got rewarded.
This is an important story from Katha Pollitt at The Nation in 2009. She followed the story of those who were so influential in getting our country involved in the use of torture. Better Living...
View ArticleTorture in a Nation of Laws
I remember being taught that the USA was a nation of laws not of men. I liked that idea and believed it until Nixon came along with his sick idea that if the President does it, it is not a crime....
View ArticleInterrogation
I want my country to embrace the Geneva Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as having our military and the CIA adhere to the provisions of the US Army Field Manual on...
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Judge Silberman lies about Bush's Iraq War lies
Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has two primary claims to fame. First, in July 1990 the Reagan appointee was part of the 2 to 1 majority that...
View ArticleI Read GITMO Detainee, Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s original handwritten manuscript
SALAHI'S DIARY: After years of DOD delays, we get a first hand account of what it like being a GITMO prisoner for almost a decade, having NEVER been charged.The diary is over 400 pages, written by a...
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The Ridiculous Fox News Attempt To Compare The Threat Of Climate Change To...
During the State of the Union address last month, President Obama made note of a particularly perilous situation that requires an immediate response in order to prevent certain catastrophe. Warning...
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Donald Rumsfeld Resurfaces On Fox News To Remind Everyone Why We Stopped...
The cable "news" network best known for serving up obvious lies; for its open hostility toward President Obama and other Democrats; and for its flagrant dumbing down of every issue, has reached out to...
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Judith Miller lies about Bush's Iraq lies
If being a neocon means never having to say you're sorry, then being an accessory to a world-historical mistake must grant you some kind of magical immunity. So it would seem after reading Bush...
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Tom Cotton: Put Iraq out of your mind. Bombing Iran would take just 'several...
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR): Smarmy smile, thirst for war. Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton: losing his grip on reality, or lying shamelessly? It's not clear which conclusion would be more unflattering to Cotton in...
View ArticleRumsfeld: Looting Is Transition To Freedom
Story by Pamela Hess, UPI Pentagon Correspondent [not The Onion]Rumsfeld: Looting is transition to freedom[F]reedom's untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad...
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Sorry, Jeb. Your brother did create ISIS
A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul. It must be tough being the brother of the man who is responsible for the...
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George W. Bush unrepentant in defense of his Iraq invasion
Knowing what he knows now about the reaction to his statement that knowing what he knows now he would still have gone into Iraq, Jeb Bush on Friday comically reversed course on his brother's 2003...
View ArticleNext Question: "Would You Have Let the UN Inspectors Complete their Job?
Everyone seems to forget that, regardless of intelligence errors or even cherry-picking, what we now know about the absence of WMD in Iraq was indeed knowable prior to the invasion.Now that Jeb Bush...
View ArticleThe Ever-Mutating Iraq Call to Arms: A Recollection
Hey everyone. My first diary in a long while. Something I've been mulling for years and just never seen articulated quite in this way. So here goes, and I'll try to keep it short.All this recent focus...
View ArticleIraq: Five Points to Remember
As the Republican presidential demolition derby continues, the 2015 GOP candidates have settled on two central themes: hatred for President Obama and desire to send US troops back to Iraq to fight...
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