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Cheney ordered CIA program kept secret (Updated)4 comments

Zooey wrote 5 months ago: According to the New York Times, former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to keep a counter … more →

Tags: Government & Institutions - Congress, America - National Security, America - Constitution, America - Democracy, Government & Institutions - Executive Branch, Government & Institutions - Oversight Agencies, POTUS Barack obama, Governmental oversight, Zooey @ TPZoo

CIA Director Leon Panetta Admits Agency Misled Congress3 comments

Big Blue wrote 6 months ago: Hmm.  I’m thinking this is going to make some waves.  Huffington Post has the story: CIA Direc … more →

Tags: News & Politics, Congress, Big-Blue @ TPZoo, Leon Panetta, CIA, misled

"Torture Works" vs. "I Make Up Stories"13 comments

Wayne A. Schneider wrote 6 months ago: : : : : : : : : : : Dick Cheney has been trying to tell us that torture works (okay, he still refuse … more →

Tags: america, America - Constitution, America - Law, America - Terrorism, Commentary, Government & Institutions - Executive Branch, Government & Institutions - Impeachment, Human & Civil Rights - Guantanamo, Human & Civil Rights - Torture

Even If It Wasn't Torture, It Was Still a Crime4 comments

Wayne A. Schneider wrote 7 months ago: : : : : : : : : : : Article VI, Clause 2 of the US Constitution says: This Constitution, and the Law … more →

Tags: America - Law, Government & Institutions - Congress, Government & Institutions - Dept. of Justice, Government & Institutions - Executive Branch, Human & Civil Rights - Torture, military, Jay Bybee, Politics, "SERE Training"

OPEN THREAD: Who is Ali Soufan?19 comments

Shayne wrote 7 months ago: Ali Soufan, FBI agent, testified today at the congressional hearing on the Bush Administration’s det … more →

Tags: News, America - 9/11, America - Terrorism, Government & Institutions - FBI, America - National Security, Human & Civil Rights - Torture, America - War on Terror, Human & Civil Rights - Guantanamo, Shayne @ TPZoo

Torture Used to Link Saddam With 9/112 comments

nwmuse wrote 8 months ago: by Marjorie Cohn (Posted with permission) When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Comm … more →

Tags: America - 9/11, Government & Institutions - Dept. of Justice, Human & Civil Rights - Guantanamo, Human & Civil Rights - Torture, International - Iraq, News, Opinion, POTUS - George W. Bush, POTUS Barack obama

Turley: Torture prosecution is not ‘retribution’4 comments

nwmuse wrote 8 months ago: George Washington University law school professor Jonathan Turley was a guest last evening on The Ra … more →

Tags: News, POTUS - George W. Bush, America - Law, Human & Civil Rights - Torture, Features - Video, Opinion, POTUS Barack obama, nwmuse @ TPZoo, Rachel Maddow

A Call to End All Renditions

nwmuse wrote 10 months ago: by Marjorie Cohn (Posted at TheZoo by permission) Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, … more →

Tags: America - Law, Human & Civil Rights - Torture, Government & Institutions - Dept. of Justice, nwmuse @ TPZoo, Marjoie Cohn, renditions, Binyam Mohamed

I was just following orders...1 comment

Briseadh na Faire wrote 11 months ago: is now a sufficient excuse to get away with…torture! According to Leon Pannetta: CIA officers … more →

Tags: America - Terrorism, America - Law, America - National Security, Human / civil rights, Human & Civil Rights - Torture, America - War on Terror, Human & Civil Rights - Guantanamo, Opinion, Commentary

No-mo Gitmo!1 comment

Briseadh na Faire wrote 11 months ago: President Barack Obama began overhauling U.S. treatment of terror suspects Thursday, signing orders … more →

Tags: America - Terrorism, America - Law, Government & Institutions - FBI, America - National Security, Government & Institutions - Corruption, America - Constitution, Human / civil rights, Human & Civil Rights - Torture, VPOTUS - Richard B. Cheney

"I was just following orders!"1 comment

Briseadh na Faire wrote 12 months ago: Oh. Ok. In that case, no one will prosecute you for torturing people. As President-elect Barack Obam … more →

Tags: military, America - Terrorism, Government & Institutions - Congress, America - National Security, Human / civil rights, Human & Civil Rights - Torture, America - War, Government & Institutions - Dept of State, America - War on Terror

Former CIA agent: Panetta ‘a good pick’ for CIA1 comment

nwmuse wrote 12 months ago: Raw Story President-elect Obama is defending his choice of former Clinton official Leon Panetta for … more →

Tags: News & Politics, Features - Video, Government & Institutions - Executive Branch, nwmuse @ TPZoo, Interview, Rachel Maddow, Robert Baer, Leon Panetta

Plame, Wilson to take CIA leak lawsuit to Supreme Court5 comments

nwmuse wrote 1 year ago: Raw Story Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson … more →

Tags: POTUS - George W. Bush, VPOTUS - Richard B. Cheney, Government & Institutions - Executive Branch, nwmuse @ TPZoo, Valerie Plame, Scott McClellan, Karl Rove, joseph wilson, Scooter Libby

White House fearful of prosecution...13 comments

Cats r Flyfishn wrote 1 year ago: : : : : : : : : : : Harpers Magazine interviewed Jane Mayer, the author of The Dark Side – An … more →

Tags: POTUS - George W. Bush, America - Law, Government & Institutions - FBI, America - Constitution, Human & Civil Rights - Torture, Features - Books, Human & Civil Rights - Domestic Surveillance, America - Democracy, Government & Institutions - Executive Branch

Torture and the Rule of Law

nwmuse wrote 1 year ago: by Glenn Greenwald – Salon and CommonDreams The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer, one of the country’s … more →

Tags: International - Iraq, POTUS - George W. Bush, Human & Civil Rights - Torture, VPOTUS - Richard B. Cheney, International - Afghanistan, nwmuse @ TPZoo, War crimes, Glenn Greenwald, Human & Civil Rights - Guantanamo

McClellan's Biggest Revelation? Bush Personally Authorized Leak Of CIA Agent's Identity3 comments

nwmuse wrote 1 year ago: Huffington Post Perhaps the biggest revelation from Scott McClellan’s bombshell book about his … more →

Tags: POTUS - George W. Bush, Government & Institutions - Executive Branch, nwmuse @ TPZoo, Scott McClellan, Treason

Top Bush Administration officials pressured underlings to use torture tactics at Guantanamo2 comments

nwmuse wrote 1 year ago: via: Raw Story Of Guantanamo interrogators: “You could almost see their dicks getting hard as they g … more →

Tags: military, POTUS - George W. Bush, Human & Civil Rights - Torture, Human & Civil Rights - Guantanamo, Government & Institutions - Executive Branch, nwmuse @ TPZoo

Bush Weakens Espionage Oversight5 comments

Zooey wrote 1 year ago: By Charlie Savage, Boston Globe (via Common Dreams) WASHINGTON – Almost 32 years to the day af … more →

Tags: News & Politics, POTUS - George W. Bush, Society - Hypocrisy, Government & Institutions - Congress, Government & Institutions - FBI, Government & Institutions - Corruption, Human & Civil Rights - Domestic Surveillance, America - Democracy, Government & Institutions - Executive Branch

Reaction to Bush veto of CIA torture ban5 comments

Zooey wrote 1 year ago: The Raw Story “I believe that we must reject torture without equivocation because it does not … more →

Tags: Human & Civil Rights - Torture, Government & Institutions - Executive Branch, Zooey @ TPZoo, Torture


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