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Mukasey 'undecided' on whether waterboarding = torture.

... the CIA’s destruction of the torture tapes, Attorney... a form of torture. … Mukasey said he has not yet... concluded a review of Justice Department memos...

Published on December 11, 2007

UN Rapporteur On Torture: Obama's Pledge Not To Pursue Torture Prosecutions Of CIA Agents Is Not Legal

... relied on the memos to justify their use of torture... of the Office of Legal Counsel’s (OLC) Bush-era torture... memos last week, he issued a statement promising...

Published on April 19, 2009

Release the Memos

... releasing the last still-classified Bush-era torture memos... to release the memos. ...

Published on April 04, 2009

The Torture Lobby

...The release of the OLC torture memos by the Obama... of torture have responded with a number of tired arguments... in favor of torture, the most common being: 1...

Published on April 20, 2009

After Calling Waterboarding Torture In December, David Rivkin Pens Op-Ed Defending Its Use

... torture memos released last week by the Obama... ‘green lighting’ torture…the memos detail... did not torture detainees. “Far from...

Published on April 20, 2009

Obama Hits Back Against Bybee's Defense: 'Legal Rationales' For Torture Memos Were 'A Mistake'

...-era torture memos. Obama refrained from saying the Bush... torture memos. While anonymous friends of Bybee said... torture,” in light of Obama’s recent release of Bush...

Published on April 29, 2009

Jay Bybee's anonymous friends claim Bybee regrets his role in approving torture.

... the torture memos: “I’ve heard him express... regret at the contents of the memo,” said... heard him express regret that the memo was misused...

Published on April 25, 2009

O'Reilly, Ingraham: Saying That U.S. Tortures Is 'One Of The Most Hateful Stereotypes About America'

... that specifically authorized torture of detainees. The 2002 memo... yesterday that the U.S. will “reject torture... is enough with this torture nonsense,”...

Published on July 25, 2008

Gates supported release of torture memos.

... to release four Bush administration legal memos authorizing... torture, former Bush CIA director Michael Hayden... Thursday that he supported the release of sensitive memos...

Published on April 23, 2009

The Frequently Ticking Time Bomb

... Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded... administration’s torture policy. And of course once you start... torturing people, the tendency is for torture to always...

Published on April 19, 2009

For Love of Torture

...The OLC memos released today make for chilling... by a group of people who were incredibly eager to torture... on torture as really sad, and thus something they need...

Published on April 16, 2009

Feingold says Cheney is wrong: ‘Nothing I have seen’ in the CIA memos proves torture was necessary.

... torture, Vice President Dick Cheney has repeatedly... pointed to two CIA memos that he says “showed...-WI) declared that nothing in those memos suggests...

Published on May 13, 2009

CIA memos say 'specific intent' of 'pain and suffering' necessary for interrogations to be considered torture.

...Today, the ACLU released a series of memos... 2002 through 2004. According to Raw Story, the memos... Here’s an example from an August 2002 memo: To violate...

Published on July 24, 2008

Johnsen: GOP opposed me because I oppose torture.

... by the “torture memo” by settling on a bipartisan... failed. But I have no doubt that the OLC torture memo... “clearly erroneous” memos justifying the unlawful...

Published on June 11, 2010

Yoo can't handle the truth.

... internal legal memos related to warrantless domestic... earlier that the memos “may contain far... on torture.” ...

Published on February 14, 2006

Civil War Emerges At Fox News: 'We Don't F*cking Torture' Vs. 'Torture, My Ass'

... administration’s OLC torture memos, several Fox News pundits have... launched unrelenting, full-throated defenses of torture..., saying, “Torture, my ass.” Also yesterday...

Published on April 23, 2009

Turley: By Refusing To Pardon Torture Officials, Bush Is Allowing Democrats To Repair His Legacy

... that the Justice Department’s torture memos give... little to do with the torture memos: TURLEY: What..., the individual responsible for withdrawing the torture memos...

Published on November 26, 2008

Lawless Torture Memo Author Calls Obama Lawless

... Administration’s laughably wrong legal justification for torture...

Published on June 23, 2011

Federal judge orders CIA to turn over 2002 torture memo for review.

... memo said to specify harsh interrogation methods used.... The Aug. 1, 2002 memo was written by then...

Published on May 09, 2008

Commentary's Abe Greenwald is Pro-Torture

..., then there is no such thing as torture.” As Jay Bybee wrote in a memo... defends himself against charges of being pro-torture... article is not torture. This covers, among other things...

Published on April 20, 2009
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