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Torture Memo Author Declines to Appear Before Senate Commission
Jay S. Bybee, currently a sitting federal judge on the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, has declined, through his attorneys, to appear before the Senate Subcommittee of Administrative Oversight and...
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Events Come Full Circle: Possible Avoidance of Accountability
George W. Bush, former two term 43rd President of the United States of America has been quoted as saying, in reference to his successor, the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama: “I want the... 481 views | 88 recommendations | 24 comments
Op-Ed : Accountability for Torture
Outlining past examples of abuse of power, this article provides a foundation that contends that Congress' refusal to address abuses of former and sitting presidents, with Iran/Contra offered as an... Doctors Charge CIA Torture Memos Misuse Sleep Deprivation Data
Scientists whose work has been revealed to be cited in the recently released Bush administration torture memos, object to the use of their work, citing, for example, that periods of sleep... 9/11 Commission Director Dissented on Torture Memo Directives
Philip Zelikow, who acted as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's adviser and as a policy representative to an NSC policy committee on intelligence and terrorism issues during the Bush administration, has... It's Repugnant When the Media Describes Torture as Merely "Harsh"
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... 208 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments
Torture Memos: Waterboarding CIA Agents Will Not Face Prosecution
Waterboarding, a controversial interrogation technique that has been banned as torture was used to question terror detainees under the Bush administration. In an April 16, 2009 press release Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama administration would not...
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