Big fucking deal. More threats. And if they show up and testify, then what? Is someone going to be charged with human rights violations? War crimes? I think not. Yesterday there were hearings with former KBR employees testifying to the waste and theft. Others have testified. What’s happened? [...]

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The Bush administration has been caught in another lie.
Remember how the president looked earnestly into the television cameras on Oct. 6, 2007, and said, “This government does not torture people.”
While the issue of illegal and inhumane practices towards prisoners erupted into public consciousness following the release of gruesome photos from Abu Ghraib in April 2004, [...]

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Checking out some blogs I haven’t visited in some time and I ran across this autopsy report at Hannah’s blog. Seems it was released to the ACLU in 2005, but I don’t remember this one. It’s so very hard for me to believe that no war crimes are being lodged against the criminals in [...]

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ABC News is reporting sources have told them Bush, Cheney, Rice, rumsfeld, Powell, Tenet and Ashcroft held meetings to discuss and approve “enhanced interrogation techniques. Gee, ya think we’ll hear about this from the MSM? Naw………not important. The American Idol super show will draw more attention than this story. I wonder how [...]

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Jonathan Turley talks to Keith Olbermann in regards to the John Yoo torture memo.

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Meet John C. Yoo. This is the man who wrote the legal memorandum which gave the Bush administration unfettered powers in interrogation techniques “including extreme temperatures, head-slapping and a type of simulated drowning called waterboarding.”

Memo: Laws Didn’t Apply to Interrogators
The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws [...]

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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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JURIST Special Guest Columnist and British human and medical rights activist Dr. David Nicholl, a neurologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK, says that Amnesty International’s new report into the rendition and torture of one-time “ghost detainee” Khaled al-Maqtari by the CIA highlights yet again the complicity of doctors in the US detention and rendition [...]

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If Congress (or someone) slapped the bastard down just one time, and hard, I guarantee you would see that Bush is nothing more than a six-year-old crying after his toys.

Bush To Veto Waterboarding Bill
WASHINGTON - President Bush is poised to veto legislation that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding — a technique that simulates [...]

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All cruelty springs from weakness.
— Seneca

One of the Bush administration’s chief defenses, besides a mostly gutless and complicit Congress and press, is that the harm they’ve done is so deep and widespread it’s hard to keep track of it all. That said, the Guantanamo show trials and the use of torture are as fundamental [...]

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(Cartoon by Mike Keefe, 2/15/08)
In the past two weeks, the Bush administration has finally admitted to torturing prisoners. We’ve seen artful dodges from Attorney General Mukasey and shameless and vile hackdom from many other Bush allies. Some exceptional news articles and commentary have been produced, but sadly and unsurprisingly, they have yet to [...]

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The CIA showed us a lot of shit, man.
– Soldier X

An anonymous man wearing a US Special Forces T-shirt is a war criminal, if his three-minute YouTube interview is to be believed. In it, he claims to have taken part in routine torture of Iraqis — Hajji’s in soldier slang — in the infamous Abu [...]

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