Archive for the 'Torture' Category
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos
Waterboarding Got White House Nod
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 15, 2008; Page A01
The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency’s use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries […]
Posted in administration, Bush, Torture, Geneva Accords |
Monday, July 14th, 2008
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via Barnes & Noble
The Outlaw Presidency
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, July 14, 2008; 12:47 PM
Another major book chronicling the descent into lawlessness of the Bush presidency is out this week. This one is by Jane Mayer of the New Yorker, and it’s called “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror […]
Posted in administration, Constitution, Bush, Torture, Terrorism, Books, USA, Geneva Accords, Crime |
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
March 9, 2008
Bush Uses Veto on C.I.A. Tactics to Affirm Legacy
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Saturday further cemented his legacy of fighting for strong executive powers, using his veto to shut down a Congressional effort to limit the Central Intelligence Agency’s latitude to subject terrorism suspects to harsh interrogation […]
Posted in Congress, Bush, Torture, Pentagon |
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Motivate them to what?! Is not his quaint ‘water-boarding’ actually Chinese Water Torture? Just as the attempt to ban boxing led to female boxing, the attempt to ban water-torture has let it seep into the workplace.
What’s on the horizon? Game shows? Home Water Torture Kits? Maybe, we can look forward to […]
Posted in Business, Torture, Society |
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Lieberman Defends Waterboarding: It’s ‘Not Like Putting Burning Coals On People’s Bodies’
Yesterday, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) “reluctantly acknowledged” that he doesn’t believe waterboarding is torture. According to the Connecticut Post, Lieberman downplayed the severity of the waterboarding because it doesn’t inflict permanent physical damage:
In the worst case scenario — when there is an imminent threat […]
Posted in Torture, Lieberman |
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
Sadly, Feinstein and Schumer were blinded by the light…
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…or was it the nifty lapel flag?
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By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 8, 2008; Page A04
The attorney general yesterday rejected growing congressional calls for a criminal investigation of the CIA’s use of simulated drownings to extract information from its detainees, as Vice President Cheney called […]
Posted in administration, Torture, Charles Schumer, Department of Justice, Judge Mukasey, Diane Feinstein |
Friday, January 18th, 2008
W. pounds his chest three times while bellowing ‘I am the president,‘ the Constitution is relegated to comic book status, thieves steal copper from working communication and HVAC systems, the Middle Class falls into poverty as the rich become richer through greed and favorable government decisions and the executive branch play games with […]
Posted in Constitution, Bush, Graft, Torture, Canada, Dictators, Greed |
Friday, December 14th, 2007
Mukasey Rejects Call for CIA Tape Details
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 14, 2007; 2:27 PM
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today sharply rebuffed congressional demands for details about the Justice Department’s inquiry into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes, saying that providing such information would make it appear that the department was “subject to […]
Posted in Torture, CIA, Charles Schumer, Department of Justice, Judge Mukasey, Diane Feinstein |
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
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Special Comment:
On waterboarding and torture
Nov. 5: Keith Olbermann comments on Pres. Bush and Michael Mukasey’s response to allegations of waterboarding in the Bush administration. Why was an Acting Assistant Attorney General forced out – just because he had the guts to do what Pres. Bush couldn’t?
Posted in Bush, Torture, Terrorism, Cong-SENATE, Judge Mukasey |
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Kennedy turns against Mukasey
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent 6 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - President Bush, seeking Thursday to salvage the embattled nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, defended the former judge’s refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding as illegal torture. But the nomination suffered another setback in the Senate.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., […]
Posted in administration, Bush, Torture, Ted Kennedy, Department of Justice, Judge Mukasey |
