2 month ago
nelson : Guantanamo murders - Detailed investigative journalism into the three simultaneous deaths of prisoners at Guantanamo. The suicide story doesn't hold much water.
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philgyford : Detainee 063 - Real-time account of the interrogation of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, seven years on, Pepys' Diary style. (via Kottke)
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nelson : Reverse Nuremberg defense - Cheney, et al not guilty because they were only giving orders
deusx : Sympathy for the bad apples « The Poor Man Institute - "We’ve got what amounts to a reverse Nuremberg defense, where Bush administration officials are let off the hook because they were only giving orders. I’m not sure that’s such a great idea."
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nelson : Cheney's torture orders - Report that the vice president's office specifically pressed to torture an Iraqi prisoner to make a connection between Hussein and Al Qaeda
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Andy Baio : Pew study says churchgoers more likely to support torture - J-Walk notes that the threat of torture is a fundamental concept of hell
deusx : Survey: Support for terror suspect torture differs among the faithful - CNN.com - "The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey."
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22 month ago
nelson : White House knew of torture in 2002 - No big surprise here, but the whole "few bad eggs" thing is shown to be a lie
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23 month ago
adamrg : Amnesty International launches advert protesting against waterboarding - Unsubscribe me as well.
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25 month ago
nelson : McCain for torture, too - Ridiculous hair splitting on a core human rights issue
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25 month ago
nelson : Bush endorses torture - Refuses to sign a bill outlawing torture
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27 month ago
Andy Baio : I Waterboard! - Straight Dope member waterboards himself and writes about the experience [via]
Ethan Marcotte : I waterboard! - "I'll put it this way. If I had the choice of being waterboarded by a third party or having my fingers smashed one at a time by a sledgehammer, I'd take the fingers, no question." ∞
Rod Begbie : Straight Dope Message Board - I waterboard! - Someone voluntarily goes under "waterboarding" to decide if it's really torture or not. "If I had the choice of being waterboarded by a third party or having my fingers smashed one at a time by a sledgehammer, I'd take the fingers, no question." [via] #
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28 month ago
nelson : Pelosi was OK with torture - 2002 briefing of Democrat leaders
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29 month ago
nelson : Torture 2.0 - A web how-to for waterboarding. Maybe Mukasey would like to read up?
deusx : waterboarding.org | “Torture is abhorrent, both to American law and values, and to international norms.” —US DOJ 1/27/05 - "Using unclassified sources, news reports, and historical records we are attempting to put together as clear a picture as possible of this technique, its history, its legality, and the scope of its use."
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29 month ago
nelson : Waterboarding is torture - Insane we even have to debate this, but here's an expert
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30 month ago
Linkorama : The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us - “BUSH lies” doesn’t cut it anymore. It’s time to confront the darker reality that we are lying to ourselves.
Ethan Marcotte : The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us - If anyone needs me, I'll be in my bed with the covers pulled over my head. ∞
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30 month ago
nelson : The US doesn't torture - How do we know? Because Supreme Court refuses to hear the cases
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30 month ago
deusx : A troubling turn in American history - The Boston Globe - "These developments would be disturbing enough, but what they point to is an interruption in this nation's most important public tradition - the movement from recognition of a problem to its attempted resolution."
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30 month ago
nelson : New US torture policy - When do the war crimes investigations start?
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31 month ago
nelson : Left meets Right on 24 - Janeane Garofalo to join right wing boy fantasy show. Will she do torture porn?
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32 month ago
nelson : How the US tortures - Detailed, carefully written New Yorker piece
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33 month ago
nelson : Scalia confuses 24 for reality - US Supreme Court justice actually cites Jack Bauer
Rod Begbie : globeandmail.com: What would Jack Bauer do? - Supreme Court judge Justice Antonin Scalia: "Are you going to convict Jack Bauer? Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so." No, really. Frightening. [via] #
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34 month ago
cobra libre : "Verschärfte Vernehmung" - "The interrogation methods approved and defended by this president are not new.... The very phrase used by the president to describe torture-that-isn't-somehow-torture--'enhanced interrogation techniques'--is a term originally coined by the Nazis. The tec #
deusx : The Daily Dish: "Verschärfte Vernehmung" - "As you can see from the Gestapo memo, moreover, the Nazis were adamant that their "enhanced interrogation techniques" would be carefully restricted and controlled, monitored by an elite professional staff, of the kind recommended by Charle
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40 month ago
Rod Begbie : Reason Magazine - Ticking Bombast - Excellent deconstruction of the ridiculousness of the "ticking timebomb" argument for allowing torture. [via] #
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42 month ago
deusx : A Question Bush Can't Answer - washingtonpost.com - "But if the public doesn't know what torture is or is not, as defined by the Bush Administration, how can the public make a decision on whether your policy is right or wrong?"
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43 month ago
deusx : Crooks and Liars � Matt Lauer goes after Bush over secret prisons and torture - "Matt Lauer went after Bush over his secret prisons and the use of torture on the captured terrorists via The Today Show this morning. He was uncommonly strong and didn’t back down when Bush gave his pet answer."
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