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Who are you going to side with — Allen West or George Washington?

Labels: Allen West, George Washington, Good Question, Torture, War Crimes

Labels: Chart of the day, Crime, Punishment, Torture

“They're wrong. Waterboarding is torture. Anybody who has actually read about and understands the practice of waterboarding would say that that is torture. And that's not something we do -- period.”

Labels: Debates, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, President Obama, Quotations, Torture

Here’s a partial list of events which did not produce a flurry of public teabaggings:

1. Our Supreme Court appointing the loser of the 2000 elections to the Presidency
2. Warrantless wiretapping
3. Gitmo
4. Attacking a country which had nothing to do with 9/11, and could not have attacked us
5. Abu Ghraib

And here’s the entire list of things which did:

1. Black guy getting elected President, giving Democrats control of House, Senate, and Presidency, all in full accordance with our Constitution

Labels: Civil Liberties, Constitution, Democrats, Tea Baggers, Tea Party, Torture, War

Labels: CNN, Dick Cheney, Media Bias, Torture

As a result of the likelihood that torture will be applied to them, the US military is declining after all to turn 26,000 Iraqi prisoners in its prisons in Iraq over to the Iraqi government.

Labels: Iraq, Prisons, Torture, US Military

WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators have agreed to drop amendments to a supplemental appropriations bill that would have banned the release of photos depicting alleged detainee abuse and would have restricted bringing Guantanamo detainees to the United States.

Labels: Congress, Guantanamo, Joe Lieberman, Lindsey Graham, Torture

"House Republicans, hoping to put Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) back on defense, are weighing whether to take another run at a resolution calling for an investigation into her allegations that the CIA lied to Congress about its use of enhanced interrogation techniques."

Labels: CIA, investigations, Lies, Republicans, Speaker Pelosi, Torture

Let's put this straight right off the bat: favoring the use of torture is not a political position, it's a mental illness.

Labels: Torture

Labels: Dick Cheney, Guantanamo, Lies, Torture

“I believe the speaker."

Labels: CIA, Lies, Speaker Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Torture

The “We Did Nothing Wrong, & Nancy Should Have Stopped Us” Song

By Madeleine Begun Kane

The CIA did nothing wrong.
Doo-da, Doo-da.
Pelosi knew and went along.
Oh, de doo-da day.

Labels: CIA, Humor, Mad Kane, Speaker Pelosi, Torture

The question of what Nancy Pelosi knew or didn’t, or when she did or didn’t know, is irrelevant to how W. and Dick Cheney broke the law and authorized torture.

Labels: Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Maureen Dowd, Nancy Pelosi, Torture

Why is Nancy Pelosi the only person who seems to be in trouble over waterboarding?

Labels: Good Question, Media Bias, Nancy Pelosi, Torture, Waterboarding

Labels: Me Neither, Torture

I’ll put it to you this way: You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

Labels: Dick Cheney, Jesse Ventura, Quote of the Day, Torture, Waterboarding

1. Affirm our nation's commitment to uphold the Constitution;

2. Fully investigate Bush/Cheney administration officials' alleged crimes and hold them accountable for any illegal acts;

3. Hold accountable Bush/Cheney Administration officials who showed or show contempt for the legal duty to comply with Congressional subpoenas; disclosed the identity of any covert intelligence agent; pursued politically-motivated prosecutions;

4. Ensure that any Bush/Cheney administration official guilty of a war crime is prosecuted under the War Crimes Act and the Anti-Torture Act;

5. Affirm that it is the sole legal right of Congress to declare war; Criminalize lying to Congress and the American public about the reasons for going to war;

6. Restore the writ of habeas corpus as an essential principle of our democracy;

7. Ensure that torture and rendition are uniformly prohibited under United States law;

8. Responsibly close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp; Ensure that Americans can bring claims against their government;

9. Immediately take affirmative steps to protect all Bush/Cheney Administration documents;

10. Publicly review potential abuses of the presidential pardon process; and

11. Further reform the use of presidential signing statements.

Labels: Congress, Executive Branch Accountability Act, H. Res. 417, Justice, Tammy Baldwin, Torture

If civilian torturers are not to be prosecuted, Lynndie England, Charles Graner and anyone else who has served in uniform and been convicted of maltreating detainees deserve the same measure of leniency afforded to Scooter Libby. Commute the remaining confinement of Charles Graner. Allow him to walk free, just like the civilians who are guilty of the same crime. However, if someone in this Administration discovers their elusive spine, keep Graner locked up and put the CIA agents in the cell next door.

Labels: Charles Graner, CIA, Justice, Lynndie England, Torture

Labels: Christianity, Snark, Torture

So any briefing that you would get from the Bush administration on the subject is one that is probably something you're not going to agree with, and two, maybe not the whole truth anyway.

Labels: Bushco™, Lies, Speaker Pelosi, Torture