Tag Archives: Torture
Pelosi: The CIA and Bush Administration lied to me
1. Speaker Pelosi fires back - The CIA says they told her about waterboarding in 2002. She insists that they did not. Somebody’s lying, and is it possible that everyone is? Bonus: Article draws the parallel between Cheney and the extreme right, and Pelosi and the extreme left. Dead on accurate if you ask me. [...]
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Obama pulls an about face on detainee photos
1. On second thought… let’s keep those snapshots to ourselves -
The President changes his mind on the release of actual photos showing more prisoner mis-treatment at the hands of U.S. military. Sec. of Defense Robert Gates asked them not to be released, General Petraus asked them to not be released… it’s good to have a [...]
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Obama Headlines White House Correspondents’ Dinner
1. President Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
“John Boehner is a person of color…” Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa… haaaaaaaa! (From the Hill)
2. U.S. Journalist Freed from Iranian Prison - She was charged with espionage, and sentenced to eight years. Appeals court knocked it down to a two year suspended sentence. And get this, she works for the [...]
Did the US torture pigs in Mexico?
1. Swine Flu… potential pandemic or much a do about nothing? – One thing’s for sure. Any flu virus that combines genetic material from humans, pigs, and birds… ain’t “nothing.” (From Global Post)
2. Still no Sec. of Health and Human Services - Or a Surgeon General, or a head
of the CDC. We could really use [...]
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Torture produced faulty Iraq / Al Qaeda link?
1. Maybe Torture Wasn’t the last Resort - And just as bad if not worse: “Interrogators employed the techniques, which are notorious for producing bad intelligence, to get detainees to make statements linking Iraq and al-Qaida.” So if Mr. Cheney’s justification for water-boarding is that it gave us intelligence that prevented another 9/11 style attack, [...]
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But, but, but… waterboarding WORKED! – (so says) Cheney
1. Cheney wants release of memos that say waterboarding worked - Somebody is having a hard time embracing retirement.
(From the London Times)
2. Who is the Surviving Somali Pirate? – His name is Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse, he’s probably around 16 years old, and somehow reporters found his Mom. He’s now in New York City, in court, [...]
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Waterboarding, Waterboarding, Everywhere
1. CIA waterboarded two Al-Qaeda types 266 times - That’s…
Wow that’s a lot. (From the NY Times)
2. Ahmadinejad knows how bomb on stage – Claims Israel is the world’s most “cruel and racist regime”… at a U.N. racism conference. Bunch of diplomats walk out. (From the Wall Street Journal)
3. Columbine, 10 years later. What happened, [...]
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Who will get Ted Kennedy’s seat?