On Feb 14, in an exclusive interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News' This Week, former VP Dick Cheney proclaimed his love of torture, derided the Obama administration for outlawing the practice, and admitted that...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 292 views | 14 recommendations | 1 comment
In an eight page paper entitled, Aiding Torture: Health Professionals' Ethics and Human Rights Violations Revealed in the May 2004 CIA Inspector General's Report, Physicians for Human Rights...
created by Karen Hatter | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 163 views | 30 recommendations | 3 comments
The most disgusting and omnipresent cliché in journalism right now is "harsh" as a word to describe "torture, as in "harsh interrogation" (WaPost)and"harsh methods" (NYT).Look up the phrase"harsh interrogation"and you'll find it 247,000 times at Google. Look up "harsh...
opinion by francislholland | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 318 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments
The title of my recent article on Obama and the torture memos was an example of hyperbolic sarcasm. The article made it clear that the title "Obama Should Pardon the War Crimes Committed Under Bush" - was not intended as a statement of my opinion, but rather as a...
'Let's Forgive and Forget' President Barack Obama has released the "Torture Memos" that make it clear that it was the policy of the Bush Administration, including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumseld, the military and the CIA to torture prisoners, even though...
opinion by francislholland | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 601 views | 26 recommendations | 9 comments
President-Elect Barack Obama's nominee for the office of US Attorney-General, Bronx-born New Yorker Eric Holder testified 15 January before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Bush Administration (Dick Cheney,...
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Following up on Mardtech's and mtippet's reports, here is the article from the New Yorker."And you could inflict pain. “You also had stress positions, and you escalated the stress positions,” Davis said....
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