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Guantanamo murders

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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Detainee 063

3 month ago

philgyford : Detainee 063 - Real-time account of the interrogation of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, seven years on, Pepys' Diary style. (via Kottke)

Tags : top diaries guantanamobay interrogation weblogs torture via:kottke

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Reverse Nuremberg defense

10 month ago

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."

Tags : torture iraq bush cheney politics reversenuremberg

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Cheney's torture orders

10 month ago

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

Tags : torture politics iraq warcrimes dickcheney

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Pew study says churchgoers more likely to support torture

11 month ago

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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White House knew of torture in 2002

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

Tags : civilrights government iraq politics torture

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Amnesty International launches advert protesting against waterboarding

23 month ago

adamrg : Amnesty International launches advert protesting against waterboarding - Unsubscribe me as well.

Tags : amnestyinternational humanrights sideblog torture waterboarding

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McCain for torture, too

25 month ago

nelson : McCain for torture, too - Ridiculous hair splitting on a core human rights issue

Tags : bush humanrights mccain politics torture

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Bush endorses torture

25 month ago

nelson : Bush endorses torture - Refuses to sign a bill outlawing torture

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More Abu Ghraib

25 month ago

nelson : More Abu Ghraib - Yet more images of American torture

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I Waterboard!

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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Pelosi was OK with torture

28 month ago

nelson : Pelosi was OK with torture - 2002 briefing of Democrat leaders

Tags : democrats humanrights pelosi politics torture washington

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Torture 2.0

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."

Tags : humanrights mukasey politics shame torture via:boingboing bush waterboarding

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Waterboarding is torture

29 month ago

nelson : Waterboarding is torture - Insane we even have to debate this, but here's an expert

Tags : humanrights iraqwar torture via:metafilter warcrimes

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The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us

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. ∞

Tags : bush iraq politics torture

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The US doesn't torture

30 month ago

nelson : The US doesn't torture - How do we know? Because Supreme Court refuses to hear the cases

Tags : cia humanrights news politics torture

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A troubling turn in American history - The Boston Globe

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."

Tags : america bush iraq politics torture war

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New US torture policy

30 month ago

nelson : New US torture policy - When do the war crimes investigations start?

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Left meets Right on 24

31 month ago

nelson : Left meets Right on 24 - Janeane Garofalo to join right wing boy fantasy show. Will she do torture porn?

Tags : 24 garofalo keifer television torture tv

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How the US tortures

32 month ago

nelson : How the US tortures - Detailed, carefully written New Yorker piece

Tags : alqaeda guantanamo immoral iraq politics torture usiraqwar via:metafilter

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Scalia confuses 24 for reality

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#

Tags : 24 geneva habeascorpus horrifying jackbauer justice scalia supremecourt torture via:metafilter antoninscalia bizarre politics USA

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"Verschärfte Vernehmung"

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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Reason Magazine - Ticking Bombast

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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A Question Bush Can't Answer - washingtonpost.com

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?"

Tags : bush politics terror torture war

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Crooks and Liars � Matt Lauer goes after Bush over secret prisons and torture

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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