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Someone Finally Decides To Stop The Torture?

Friday, October 26, 2007 – 10:05 am

I’m in shock. The Senate Judiciary Committee is talking like it actually wants to stop Michael Mukasey’s nomination to Bush’s Cabinet unless the judge explicitly labels waterboarding as illegal torture.
Senators Leahy and Durbin, the Committee Chair and Senate majority whip, respectively, are two fairly important members of the SJC openly declaring their intention to […]

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Letters To Mukasey

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 – 11:54 am

TPM (via Marty Lederman) has the full text of a letter written to Bush’s Attorney General nominee, Judge Michael Mukasey, expressing concern over his failure to categorize waterboarding as torture. All ten Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have signed, although we have no clear evidence that they will actually prevent Mukasey’s nomination in […]

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I Tell You Yet Again, OUR GOVERNMENT EXPLICITLY AUTHORIZED TORTURE

Thursday, October 4, 2007 – 10:24 am

For the love of Jebus, lock these people up in The Hague. Now. Before they can commit any more crimes against humanity and drag my country even further through the mud.
[S]oon after Alberto R. Gonzales’s arrival as attorney general in February 2005, the Justice Department issued another opinion, this one in secret. It was […]

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Does No One Else Get That WE’RE TORTURING PEOPLE?!?

Friday, August 17, 2007 – 3:05 pm

Kay Steiger of TAPPED reminds me of a comment I meant to make today regarding John McCain’s Daily Show appearance.

As you can see, McCain said:
[As president] I’d close Guantanamo Bay and I’d declare we never torture another person in American custody.
[Emphasis added]
So, this is probably a stupid question, but where are the screaming headlines […]

By andrew | Also posted in John McCain, detainees | Comments (0)

They Didn’t Even Ask Me Any Questions

Monday, June 25, 2007 – 12:01 pm

Lauren emails me to make sure I’ve seen the Post’s latest reporting in its new series on Vice President Darth Cheney. I had seen it, but it’s still worth posting.
Shortly after the first accused terrorists reached the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Jan. 11, 2002, a delegation from CIA headquarters […]

By andrew | Also posted in Dick Cheney, detainees | Comments (0)

But What Will Justice Scalia Do About The Cougars?

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 – 2:26 pm

As anyone who has read this site for any length of time (heck, since this morning) knows, I’m a huge fan of 24. It’s entertaining escapist nonsense that, until the most recent season, held my interest with a perpetual series of increasingly ridiculous cliffhangers and increasingly grandiose action sequences.
Of course, this isn’t a […]

By andrew | Also posted in Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia, Jack Bauer, detainees, Television, 24 | Comments (1)

This Is Our Government

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 – 2:24 pm

Andrew Sullivan is getting (and deserving) quite a bit of attention for a post carefully documenting the disgusting resemblance between our very own enhanced interrogation techniques and those of the Nazis.
The phrase “Verschärfte Vernehmung” is German for “enhanced interrogation”. Other translations include “intensified interrogation” or “sharpened interrogation”. It’s a phrase that appears to have […]

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Setting The Standard

Friday, April 6, 2007 – 2:11 pm

This is hardly an original statement, but it must be repeated until someone in power takes notice: When we fail to treat “detainees” humanely, we open the door to our enemies treating our own soldiers and those of our allies however they see fit.
Royal Navy personnel seized by Iran were blindfolded, bound and held […]

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A Boot Stomping On A Face

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 – 1:02 pm

Eugene Robinson somewhat apologetically* becomes the latest to use the “Orwellian” cliche to describe what George W. Bush has done to this country. The military hearing of alleged terrorist Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri serves as our most recent evidence for the disgusting crimes committed by our own democratic government.
The Navy captain serving as president […]

By andrew | Also posted in George Orwell, 1984, detainees | Comments (0)

Evangelicals Finally Do Something Jesus Might Have Liked

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 – 4:22 pm

It’s not exactly enough to make me fall in love with the evangelical movement, but one of their major organizations is finally taking a stand against some of President Douchebag’s most egregious violations of human dignity:
The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), which represents about 45,000 churches across America, endorsed a declaration against torture drafted […]

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