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The word torture has tripped awkwardly off tongues throughout Washington ever since the Obama administration's release of legal memos justifying the CIA's use of brutal interrogation measures. It isn't news, of course, that the CIA was playing tough with terrorist suspects. But the lengthy memos included vivid details that belied earlier Bush administration claims that so-called enhanced interrogation techniques were applied sparingly.
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Cheney to Obama: Release more of the torture memos
Apr 16th, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor
If part of the genie is out of the bottle, release the whole thing. That's what Vice President Cheney is saying in response to President Obama's decision to release some...
Cheney demands release of CIA memos proving torture 'success'
Apr 16th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
The former US vice-president Dick Cheney has called for the disclosure of CIA memos which reveal the "success" of torture techniques, including waterboarding, used on al-Qaida suspects under the Bush administration.. Cheney said that...
Shayana Kadidal: The Torture Memos: Berlin, 1937 Version
Apr 16th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
The problem: The nation has been on a war footing for years. Elected leaders believe it is full of sleeper cells of subversives. Officials in the capital decide that torture...
GOP to Obama: America is Less Safe
Apr 16th, 2009 - ABC News
The White House today found itself facing a barrage of criticism over releasing the so-called torture memos. Republican lawmakers took to the airwaves on the Sunday talk...
DOJ Releases Controversial Torture Memos
Apr 16th, 2009 - ABC News
Months after Sept. 11, 2001, a top Bush administration lawyer authorized the CIA to use interrogation techniques such as the water board, attention grab, sleep deprivation and cramped confinement...
Related videos from YouTube:
- Pelosis Says She Wasn't...On Fox News Sunday today, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that she had not been briefed on secret Justice Department memos from 2005 that expanded the interrogation techniques that the CIA can use.
- Will Obama Prosecute Torture...Complete video at: fora.tv Journalist Byron York and political consultant Stanley Greenberg discuss whether or not Obama will prosecute the architects of the Bush torture memos. ----- Historians ...
- Alberto Gonzales Authorized...On The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel talks with Ari Shapiro, NPR's justice correspondent, about torture before the OLC memos, authorized by Alberto Gonzales before he was the attorney general. 5/21/09
- Dirty Harry's Enhanced Interrogation...Clint Eastwood's style of getting information from a suspect was very effective in my opinion. Yes it may have gone against some of our laws, and quite possibly even our constitution, but they were effective nonetheless ...
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Health Benefits Law Formed the Basis For the "Torture Memo"
By Jason Leopold - John Yoo, the author of one of the infamous Aug. 1, 2002, “torture” memos that formed the legal basis for so-called “enhanced” interrogation techniques against high-level terrorist detainees, used a statute governing health benefits when he provided the White House with a legal opinion defining torture. (Political News)
uncajoeTue, Sep 1st, 200932 Diggs, 1 CommentsMemos Suggest Legal Cherry-Picking in Justifying Torture
On the same day that the government produced the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on interrogations, it also turned over seven more memos and letters...The memos were the Justice Department’s legal justifications for continuing to use those controversial interrogation techniques, despite a new law passed by Congress...(Political News)
galt1776Thu, Aug 27th, 20093 Diggs, 0 CommentsThe Washington Independent The Mysterious Eleventh Tortu
The 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on torture says clearly that in 2002, the CIA proposed to the Justice Department the use of eleven “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Ten of them got the approval of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel in August 2002 in the infamous Jay Bybee/John Yoo memo (Political News)
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