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Mr. Torture Memo has a sense of humor!

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Who knew that John Yoo — the Dept. of Justice lawyer who wrote the infamous memos that claimed that Dubya was legally entitled to ignore laws prohibiting torture — has a sense of humor. In an interview in the NY Times, Yoo gets off some surprisingly funny self-deprecating lines:
NYT: Were you close to George Bush?
Yoo: [...]

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Inquisitor in Chief Cheney

Thursday, September 3, 2009

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We have met the enemy, and he is Us

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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Drill Baby, Drill

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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Cheney accuses Obama of playing politics with the Justice Department

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

In what must be one of the most hypocritical statements in recent history, former VP Dick Cheney accused president Obama of using the Justice department to launch politically motivated investigations against CIA personnel for their use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” (i.e., torture).
This is triply hypocritical: Firstly, how can he accuse Obama of playing politics with [...]

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Torturing John Yoo

Monday, August 24, 2009

Not really torture, just a good prank:

From Wikipedia:
On December 1, 2005, Yoo appeared in a debate in Chicago with University of Notre Dame law professor Doug Cassel. During the debate Cassel asked Yoo, “If the president deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no [...]

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Waterboarding by Radio

Sunday, June 21, 2009

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Civil Torture Suit

Monday, June 15, 2009

US District Judge Jeffrey White has ruled that Jose Padilla has the right to sue John Yoo, the government lawyer who wrote the memos that approved the torture of terrorists, including torturing Padilla (according to his suit).
Padilla — a US citizen — was arrested in Chicago in 2002 and was declared an “enemy combatant”. Originally [...]

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Is Cheney just lying again, or is he really that pigheaded and stupid?

Friday, May 29, 2009

The same interrogator dissects Cheney’s lies in a detailed and sobering article in The Huffington Post.
Via Raw Story.
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It’s Torture!

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Sean Hannity chickened out on his offer to be waterboarded for charity, but conservative talk show host Erich “Mancow” Muller decided to prove that waterboarding wasn’t torture by submitting to it.
I wanted to prove it wasn’t torture. They cut off our heads, we put water on their face … I really thought “I’m going to [...]

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Jesse Ventura Rocks

Friday, May 22, 2009

How ironic is it that some of the most intelligent and thoughtful arguments about the whole torture issue are coming from a former pro wrestler?

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Timeless Principles

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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