Archive for the 'torture' Category
Obama: Maybe Not So Progressive After All, Part Two
I never knew that protecting torturers from their crimes was a progressive value.
In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A “confidential” April 17, 2009, cable sent from [...]
It’s Been Dead for Some Time Now
Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone.
Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters [...]
This Makes Me Want to Vote for the Democrats
Five men who say the Bush administration sent them to other countries to be tortured had a chance to be the first ones to have torture claims heard in court. But because the Obama administration decided to adopt the Bush administration’s claim that hearing the case would divulge state secrets, the men’s lawsuit was tossed [...]
Read More..>>Heckuva Job, George, Dick, Jay, John, Rummy…
NO FUCKING DOI:
The Bush administration insisted that “enhanced interrogation techniques” — torture — were necessary to extract information from prisoners and keep Americans safe from terrorist attacks. Never mind that it was immoral, did huge damage to this country’s global standing and produced little important intelligence. Now, as we had feared, it is also making [...]
Wiki-Leaks
But most of the assaults on civilians recorded here, do not appear to have been investigated. French troops “opened fire on a bus that came too close to convoy” near the village of Tangi Kalay outside Kabul on 2 October 2008, according to the logs. They wounded eight children who were in the bus.
Gonna be [...]
Jennifer Hardy: Torture Princess
The young woman pictured above is Jennifer Hardy, or as i’m calling her, “the Torture Princess”:
The Torture Memos will forever be known as the work of John Yoo, the former Office of Legal Counsel lawyer who took the lead in preparing them. But the internal Justice Department report on the memos, released Friday, reveals that [...]
Shorter Obama: “I Support Torture”
here’s some more of that “change” shit i keep hearing about:
The Obama administration has asked an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former Bush administration attorney John Yoo of authorizing the torture of a terrorism suspect, saying federal law does not allow damage claims against lawyers who advise the president on national security issues.
Advice [...]
Why Does the Inky Keep Publishing John Yoo the Torturer?
John Yoo Doesn’t Want the 9/11 suspects tried in New York:
Ownership of the disastrous decision to try al-Qaeda leaders in New York City federal court is the one clear thing to emerge so far from the Obama administration.
The call was not made “on the whims or the desires of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” the mastermind of [...]
Glenn Beck Believes old Wive’s Tale, Kills frog on Live TV
Glenn Beck is an idiot (but I repeat myself). Here, he proves himself to be a needlessly cruel and reckless idiot as well, throwing a live frog into a pot of boiling water to illustrate the old wives tale. Things don’t go as expected.
What is it with conservatives and cruelty to animals?
Personally, i’d like [...]
John Yoo: Smarmy, Smug, Smack-worthy
See that smarmy, smug, grinning motherfucker in the photo above?
That’s John Yoo, torturer and law professor. And protestors want him fired:
Campus police arrested at least four people who refused to leave the university’s law school building.
The demonstrators said John Yoo should be dismissed, disbarred and prosecuted for war crimes for his work as a Bush [...]
