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They call this an abusive interrogation? I’ve witnessed first-hand much more abuse in job interviews!

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Lawyers for a Canadian prisoner at Guantanamo Bay released excerpts of videotaped interrogations Tuesday, providing a first-ever glimpse into the secretive world of questioning enemy combatants at the isolated U.S. prison in Cuba.

Actually, this is just a tamer segment [...]

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A federal appeals court has rejected the military’s designation of a Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant in the first such decision of its kind.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned as “invalid” a military tribunal’s conclusion that prisoner Huzaifa Parhat is an enemy combatant.
The court [...]

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Actually, our government is in the process of striking down “presumption of innocence,” with Guantanamo being their test site. If all works out well there (and, so far, it has), the right to a fair trial will be but a memory in the good ol’ U.S. of A.

Go, Republicans - Yea, team!
Mexico adopts U.S.-style trials, [...]

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For what is the following quote attributed to?
“I think it’s one of the worst decisions in history. It opens up a whole new chapter and interpretation of our constitution.”
Is it:

Women’s suffrage?
The Fifteenth Amendment?
Roe v. Wade?

Nope - It’s none of the above.
McCain slams Supreme Court on terrorist detainees
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain on [...]

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What a damn, dirty disgrace!
I doubt if any of you will be surprised by this but, not only have we been illegally detaining would-be terrorists in Guantanamo, we’ve also been detaining many with no links to terrorism what’so-ever.
McClatchy reporters have been on the case these past eight months. Their findings are bound to bring about [...]

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It actually boils down to that half-full/half-empty glass of water argument. Should the laws we prize so much be held captive, constrained (by, of all people, us) within our boundaries?
I find it ironic that, as much as republicans want to force democracy onto everyone around the globe, even at gun-point, how and why would they [...]

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Welcome to our country’s brand’spanking-new low point.
If our government truly didn’t think they were doing something wrong in their choice of interrogation techniques, they wouldn’t be destroying evidence. They KNOW what they’ve been doing is wrong and illegal!
Lawyer: Gitmo interrogators told to trash notes
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Pentagon urged interrogators at Guantanamo [...]

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“I would like to share with you how one goes about becoming a concentration camp guard without having made many decisions,” 24-year-old former Guantanamo prison guard Christopher Arent told a crowd of hundreds at last weekend’s Winter Soldier gathering outside Washington, DC.

“I was 17 years old when I joined the Army National Guard,” he [...]

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Sad times for this country…….
The use of torture to extract evidence from detainees held at the US military jail in Guantanamo Bay has tarnished the image of the US legal system and alienated allies in the war on terror, a human rights group said Monday.
“The use of evidence tainted by torture and other [...]

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Fucking shameful, unprincipled, criminal, immoral, scandalous, disgraceful, unethical rotten war criminals. That congress wouldn’t even TRY to impeach the bastards makes them accessories to the crime. That they continue to allow these pricks to get away with every imaginable criminal behavior you can think of makes me SICK SICK SICK!!!!
A Spanish [...]

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