Archive for the ‘Torture’ Category
A Thought I Wish I Could Get Out Of My Head
I read in TPM that Herman Cain said this in the debate tonight: “I do not agree with torture, period,” Cain said to start the exchange. “However, I will trust the judgment of our military leaders to determine what is torture and what is not torture. That is the critical consideration.” Asked specifically about waterboarding, [...]
November 12, 2011
· 
Tom Levenson · 
104 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Torture
And So If I Seem Broken And Blue
Looks like we are going to take the advice of Nooners when it comes to torture prosecutions: A special prosecutor has recommended a criminal probe into the deaths of two prisoners in CIA custody but cleared U.S. interrogators of wrongdoing in 99 others, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. “I have accepted his recommendation to conduct [...]
July 1, 2011
· John Cole · 72 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., Sociopaths, Torture
Not Murder, Just Suicide
This is interesting: Harper’s Magazine and Scott Horton were not supposed to win the National Magazine Award for Reporting this year. Of the five finalists in the category, there were three real contenders, and most people working in the ever-shrinking category of serious magazine journalism were sure the award would go to Rolling Stone for [...]
May 23, 2011
· John Cole · 48 Comments
Posted in: Torture, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Commence the making of popcorn… now
Erickson & Trump. One on One. By RedState on May 11, 2011 Yes, it is true. On Tuesday, I will be going one on one with Donald Trump in his office in New York. He has agreed to sit down and have an unfiltered conversation with no topic off limits. Thus I will ask him [...]
May 13, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 27 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, Fucked-up-edness, Fucksaw, Good News For Conservatives, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, I Smell a Pulitzer!, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Open Thread, Our Failed Media Experiment, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Schadenfreude, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot, Sweet Fancy Moses!, The Money Party, The Wingularity, This is not where you come to do your madness!, Torture, Wingnut Christmas, Wingnut Event Horizon, WTF?
Shut Up, You Grumpy Old Man
You want torture? Watch this sober.*** Grandpa Simpson is apparently relieved that the election is over so he can sow his mavericky oats once again, and hopefully recover his base. The media: I asked CIA Director Leon Panetta for the facts, and he told me the following: The trail to bin Laden did not begin [...]
May 12, 2011
· John Cole · 73 Comments
Tags: Did You Know that John McCain Served in Viet Nam? It's True! · Posted in: Assholes, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Torture
Creep, on the down low
I’m reluctant to link to young Conor now that he’s certain to become a full-time Daniels fluffer, but this is a very good point about “ticking bombs”: The return of the torture debate is striking because its apologists no longer feel the need to advocate for a narrow exception to prevent an American city from [...]
May 5, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 143 Comments
Posted in: Torture
Arguing Against Torture
I disagree with Tom’s post about torture. I think Josh Marshall was making an important point, one made a little more eloquently here by Kevin Drum. Perhaps he didn’t articulate it well, but I think it’s important to get it straight, because it’s key to a strong defense of the position that we should not [...]
May 4, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 255 Comments
Posted in: Torture
Did Anyone Actually See David Broder’s Body?
David Broder is dead, or so they say. I’m telling you he’s undead, and like the Jack the Ripper figure in that Star Trek episode, seems to be infecting the previously sane. Exhibit A: Here’s Josh Marshall, Josh Freaking Marshall, earlier today: As a more general matter it’s important to recognize that torture could easily [...]
May 3, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 131 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Even the "Liberal" New Republic, Torture
None Dare Say Its Name: “Even the Liberal New York Times” edition.
One reason the Bush got Bin Laden meme is in with a chance is the growing chorus claiming that “enhanced interrogation” was the key to cracking the case. (Warning: wingnuttia at that link) This is nonsense, of course, on at least two levels. One, well documented by lots of folks, including, repeatedly, commenters here, is [...]
May 3, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 91 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, DC Press Corpse, Sociopaths, Torture
Prisoners
From Britain’s The Independent, 27 April 2011, “US doctors ‘hid signs of torture’ at Guantanamo“: US government doctors who cared for the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay deliberately concealed or ignored evidence that their patients were being tortured, the first official study of its kind has found. A detailed review of the medical records and case [...]
April 28, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 87 Comments
Posted in: Decline and Fall, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Security Theatre, Torture
‘You Get the Behavior You Reward’
That’s a standard saying among animal trainers and management consultants, frequently used to point out that every instance of ‘rewarding’ bad behavior (by inattention or favoritism or an unwillingness to admit imperfection) negates hours of half-hearted positive reinforcement and/or lip service about mandating quality at every level. It was my first affirmative thought in response [...]
April 28, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 17 Comments
Posted in: Enhanced Protest Techniques, Military, Torture
GITMO: Just As Bad As We Suspected
The Guardian and the NYTimes have coordinated another release of redacted ‘security papers’ from Wikileaks, this time concerning Guantanamo. From a quick scan, there are no “shocking new revelations”, just confirmation that the DFHs were right… again. Here is the Guardian: Guantánamo files lift lid on world’s most controversial prison • Innocent people interrogated for [...]
April 25, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 37 Comments
Posted in: Torture, War on Terror aka GSAVE®, We Are All Mayans Now
Change Change Change
So basically, in part because Congress is filled with obstinate fools, the Obama administration examined the Bush Gitmo policy for a couple years and decided it was pretty ok. Bunch of cowards led by spineless hacks, we are. We have nothing to fear trying these people.
March 8, 2011
· John Cole · 366 Comments
Posted in: OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Torture, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Manning Update
Bradley Manning’s lawyer has posted an explanation of why he’s been put on an enhanced suicide watch that requires him to sleep naked and present himself naked to guards in the morning: On Wednesday March 2, 2011, PFC Manning was told that his Article 138 complaint requesting that he be removed from Maximum custody and [...]
March 6, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 249 Comments
Posted in: Torture
“Donald Rumsfeld is above the law and Jose Padilla is beneath it”
Per the Washington Post, “Judge throws out Padilla suit over alleged torture“: CHARLESTON, S.C.—A federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit brought by a man convicted of plotting terrorism and who alleged he was tortured at a Navy brig in South Carolina, saying a trial would create “an international spectacle.” U.S. District Judge Richard [...]
February 18, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 62 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., Torture, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
