Tag: torture
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April 20, 2009 06:25 PM EDT --
On Fox News, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) responded to the startling information that detainee Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times. “It’s unacceptable,” McCain said, adding: "One is too . . .
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May 20, 2009 02:33 PM EDT --
A military attorney who represented a now-freed Guantanamo detainee told CNN on Wednesday that waterboarding is only “the tip of the iceberg”
Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne Bradley was the lawyer . . .
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April 22, 2009 10:28 PM EDT --
A onetime senior adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that the Bush Administration collected and destroyed memos by top officials arguing that torture methods used on . . .
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February 18, 2009 07:10 PM EST --
Breandon Neely, who was a guard at Guantanamo when it first opened in 2002, told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow about an abusive incident at Gitmo prison as “something that I am very ashamed of.”
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April 21, 2009 03:59 AM EDT --
On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow interviewed Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the Judiciary Committee, about his views on whether Federal Judge Jay Bybee, who wrote torture memos for the Bush administration, . . .
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April 24, 2009 02:41 PM EDT --
Liz Cheney, former Deputy Assistant to Condoleezza Rice joined MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell this afternoon to defend her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and the Bush administration’s use of waterboarding . . .
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April 28, 2009 02:10 PM EDT --
President Obama has stated that CIA officers who operated in good faith under the Bush administration torture memos will not be prosecuted. However, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann reported on Monday that the . . .
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April 28, 2009 04:14 PM EDT --
The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol has expressed outrage that President Obama released four-Bush era Office of Legal Counsel memos that detail the Bush administration’s legal justification for torture. . . .
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May 01, 2009 05:36 PM EDT --
In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter used claims that insects were used in interrogations to mock CIA torture as “wussie” and “things that people pay to have done to them at Six Flags.” . . .
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June 08, 2009 03:41 PM EDT --
A former prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay says he was tortured, but never interrogated about the reason the US said they’d arrested him for — even after seven years in captivity.
He also . . .
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August 14, 2009 10:32 PM EDT --
A federal appeals court in Canada ruled Friday that because officials knew about the abuse of a young Canadian detained at Guantanamo Bay, they must ask the United States to repatriate him.
In the . . .
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September 01, 2009 11:11 PM EDT --
The CIA inspector general’s report — which former VP Dick Cheney himself urged be released — not only did not back up Cheney’s claims about the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation, . . .
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May 01, 2009 06:27 PM EDT --
n little-noticed comments Thursday, the former White House counsel for President Richard Nixon John Dean said Thursday that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have unwittingly admitted to . . .
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May 05, 2009 12:14 AM EDT --
Last week, former Secretary of State Condi Rice stated at Stanford University regarding torture : “The president instructed us that nothing we would do would be outside of our obligation, legal obligations . . .
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May 26, 2009 10:00 PM EDT --
A 14-year military interrogator has undercut one of the key arguments posited by Vice President Dick Cheney in favor of the Bush Administration’s torture techniques and alleged that the use of . . .
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May 29, 2009 12:51 AM EDT --
Following an explosive report that some of the torture photos President Obama is withholding depict graphic sexual abuse , the Department of Defense and White House came out to vigorously refute the . . .
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May 29, 2009 05:47 PM EDT --
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) spoke last night at a dinner of the Foreign Policy Association, where he lambasted former Vice President Dick Cheney’s speech last week for dishonestly claiming that the . . .
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May 29, 2009 06:48 PM EDT --
The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, said Friday that the US had violated the Geneva Conventions in a stunning admission from President Bush’s onetime top general in Iraq . . .
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