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In Editor and Publisher there was a poignant story of the death of SPC Alyssa Peterson.
Peterson, 27, a Flagstaff, Ariz., native, served with C Company, 311th Military Intelligence BN, 101st Airborne. Peterson was an Arabic-speaking interrogator assigned to the prison at our air base in troubled Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq. According to official [...]
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There are things that Congress does that are just stupid. And some that are just nonsense. But there are some things done by members of Congress that make me really angry. And this nonsense put forward by Republicans — and swallowed whole by the suddenly cowardly Democrats in Congress — that closing Gitmo would release [...]
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When the Bush Administration was evaluating what kind of interrogation was to be used, they considered a proposal by two CIA contractors, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen. They proposed using what the SERE (survive, evade, resist, escape) program used to train pilots to resist torture, specifically the torture used by the Chinese against us in the [...]
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@kylesellers in the comments has insisted that waterboarding isn’t torture. Let’s let the real experts speak, those who have been tortured. John McCain said the Japanese were tried and hung for waterboarding:
“There should be little doubt from American history that we consider that as torture otherwise we wouldn’t have tried and convicted Japanese for doing that [...]
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Speaker Pelosi’s net approval dropped seven points this week. This is what it looks like:
The drop was undoubtedly the result of the withering attack by The Bipartisan Report (and if you believe that then I have some credit default swaps to sell you). Note that Minority Leader Boehner is also losing net favorability and has [...]
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We’ve already discussed the infamous poll that seemed to show that evangelicals approve torture more than their religious contemporaries. As @Karoli noted in the comments:
It is hardly representative of a) christian teaching; or b) attitudes of younger, more progressive Christians who neither support torture nor the policies of the previous administration.
Not only are progressive and [...]
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Today the Obama administration reversed itself on the decision to release the torture photos, igniting criticism from the right and the left. The right, in one of the more outrageous twists I’ve seen, points to the reversal as evidence that President Obama lies. The left is simply outraged that the evidence of the Bush administration’s [...]
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Just so we are clear- the talking heads on the right have for quite a long time said that water boarding is fine. It is not torture. They have said that it does not harm our image in the world if we use it. They are now admitting they were wrong.
The current administration is under [...]
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Update X2: Added Countdown segment on this issue. Added Glenn Greenwald comment.
In order to be completely above reproach people in positions of authority need to not only not commit impropriety but also not have the appearance of it. With respect to the issue of torture we need an honest, open, and transparent investigation not only [...]
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I’m an evangelical Christian. One complaint we often have of the mainstream media is they don’t understand or empathize with religion. They are just a bunch of hard-drinking, elitist, secularists and the worst of the worst are the so-called elite media such as the New York Times. As I have gotten to know more people [...]
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@dmooney9 on Cigna executive proves case for public healthcare option
Dan on Conservatives, please don’t fill out your census forms!
Dan on Conservatives, please don’t fill out your census forms!
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Rosann Rommelfaenger on Cigna executive proves case for public healthcare option
Rosann Rommelfaenger on Cigna executive proves case for public healthcare option
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