Archive for the 'torture' Category
Complicit Democrats
Glenn Greenwald confirms what I’ve been saying since 2007. he links to the same Washington Post article about Nancy Pelosi’s knowledge of torture too.
It is absolutely the case that, as Mayer pointed out yesterday and as I wrote about at the time, Bush officials faced serious danger of criminal liability in the wake of [...]
Cruelty x2
Disgusting treatment of illegal immigrants, and a must read.
“It is no secret that the Postville ICE raid was a pilot operation, to be replicated elsewhere, with kinks ironed out after lessons learned. Next time, “fast-tracking” will be even more relentless. Never before has illegal immigration been criminalized in this fashion. It is no longer enough [...]
Vichy Democrats: Complicit
Crossposted at Booman
On Olbermann tonight, Jonathan Turley said:
“we now know that the democratic leadership knew about the illegal surveillance program almost from its inception…they were aware of an unlawful surveillance program as well as a torture program. and ever since that came out the democrats have been silently trying to kill any effort to hold [...]
Condi Must Go
Watch Condi deny that the US tortures, over and over again. Then, watch as she’s exposed for the liar she is: Condi LED the discussions.
Condoleezza Rice Must Go.
The President Approved Torture
It’s really getting embarrassing: last week, it came out that the Bush dministration was deeply involved in the decision to torture, including which techniques to use:
The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings also approved the use of “combined” interrogation techniques — using different techniques during interrogations, instead of using one method at a time [...]
Torture
n Friday, the Pweznit admitted to signing off on torture:
As detailed in the recent ABC News story on how top White House officials in the National Security Council discussed specific details of torture, the Bush Administration torture policy was determined by the NSC.
What ABC didn’t mention is that Bush is the head of the National [...]
Torture, Again
Talkin’ About Torture
In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News.
The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings also approved the use of “combined” [...]
Yoo
Scott Horton:
In the week in which Diaz received the Ridenhour Prize, another Pentagon “secret” was disclosed. This “secret” was a memorandum made to order for William J. Haynes II, Rumsfeld’s General Counsel, and the man at the apex of the Pentagon’s military justice system that tried, convicted and sentenced Diaz. The memo was authored by [...]
Letters to Yoo’s Colleagues
As I mentioned a few posts down, I believe a campaign should be undertaken to drive John Yoo from the Faculty at Boalt Hall. I have thus begun writing letters. So far I have written to Christopher Edley, the Dean; Victoia Ortiz, Dean of Student Services; Louise Epstein, Dean of Alumni Relations and [...]
Read More..>>Shaming and Shunning
One of the ways in which the Amish maintain social order is through the practice of shunning those individuals who refuse to meet community standards of behavior. In 1997, the New York Times did an interesting piece on the role of public shaming, stating
Even those skeptical of the penalties, whose effectiveness has never been [...]
