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A different look at torture

…an appropriate response of anger and horror. It is the simplicity of viewpoint and the conclusions drawn that bother me. by Linda Beale from 2010… Torture, it’s the economy stupid…

Waterboarding reality

…designed to show how an evil totalitarian, enemy would use torture at the slightest whim. If this is the case, then waterboarding is unquestionably being used as torture technique. The…

Clearly a Commie-Symp Terrorist

…century of international measures against torture and other inhuman treatment or punishment. Ratification of the Convention by the United States will clearly express United States opposition to torture, an abhorrent…

Andrew Sullivan says focus on McCain

…country. And when the Senate and House voted overwhelmingly to condemn and end the torture regime of Bush and Cheney in 2006, McCain again had a clear choice between good…

…of torture. What we’ve learned from these memos this week is that the Department of Justice lawyers and the Pentagon lawyers have essentially worked out a way that U.S. officials…

Torture Memo Online The WSJ has posted the full 3/6/2003 torture memo (with a redaction or two), “Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations in The Global War on Terrorism: Assessment…