torture

A conservative radio host Mancow Interviewed by Keith Olbermann.

Democracy Now Headlines 4/16/09

Will George W. Bush be investigated? Here is a discussion about the subject on Hardball from 2/13/09:

Final RNC Dispatch (maybe)

As I post this, shit’s going down outside check – http://twincities.indymedia.org

Sept. 4 2008

1. Kissinger is mute

2. Lambert is Free

3. Wendy is Free

4. I-Witness is Raided Again

5. Torturing the “Terrorists”

6. Champions

7. Final thoughts

January 30, 2008

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=RcqFxZa_kSo

December 7, 2007
C.I.A. Destroyed 2 Tapes Showing Interrogations
By MARK MAZZETTI - nytimes

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Qaeda operatives in the agency’s custody, a step it took in the midst of Congressional and legal scrutiny about its secret detention program, according to current and former government officials.

The attorney general nominee declines to call water-boarding torture, as Democrats on Senate panel had sought.

By Richard B. Schmitt
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 31, 2007

WASHINGTON -- Atty. Gen.-designate Michael B. Mukasey, adopting a middle ground on an issue that has become central to his nomination, said coercive interrogation methods, including a form of simulated drowning, were "over the line" and "repugnant." But he declined to say whether he thought so-called water-boarding was a form of torture that would be illegal in all cases.

Senate hearings on Mukasey nomination

Democrats prepares to install defender of torture, illegal spying as attorney general

By Bill Van Auken
WSWS
20 October 2007

This week’s Senate hearings on the nomination of Michael Mukasey as US attorney general made clear that the Democratic leadership is preparing to install as the country’s chief law enforcement official a right-wing former judge who backs the illegal methods of the Bush administration in its so-called war on terror, including torture and domestic spying.

"The more I scream they will laugh and do it again... my screams all in vain."
– Guantánamo detainee Omar Deghayes

What is the 86 Days campaign?
86 days separate two infamous dates: October 17th marks the first year anniversary of the Military Commissions Act (MCA) and January 11th marks the anniversary of the first detainee held at Guantánamo Bay. We will protest and organize during these 86 days and need you to join us!

Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations

By SCOTT SHANE, DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN
The New York Times
October 4, 2007

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations.

But soon after Alberto R. Gonzales’s arrival as attorney general in February 2005, the Justice Department issued another opinion, this one in secret. It was a very different document, according to officials briefed on it, an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency.