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Follow the debate about waterboarding and whether or not waterboarding should be considered as a form of torture under international law.

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Attorney General Eric Holder is to be commended for his plan, expected to be announced later this morning, that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other detainees at Guantanamo will face charges in federal criminal court in the Southern District of New York. The attacks of 9/11 were an abominable criminal act and should be treated as such. The treatment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed while in American custody presents problems for his criminal trial. As pointed out by Marcy Wheeler, he was waterboarded 183 times in a period of less than a month. The rules of evidence in federal courts prevent the inclusion of testimony ... Read Full Story
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The US attorney general named a prosecutor to investigate possible crimes in secret CIA interrogations amid disclosures of threats to kill suspects' children and rape their female relatives. The revelations came in a de-classified 2004 report by then-CIA inspector general John Helgerson which catalogued the harsh tactics used against prime terror suspects at secret overseas prisons. Its release coincided with Attorney General Eric Holder naming a prosecutor to review the interrogations and report back to him on whether a full investigation into their legality was warranted. "I have concluded that the information known to me warrants opening a preliminary review into whether federal laws ... Read Full Story
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Former US vice president Dick Cheney Friday slammed a Justice Department probe into alleged abusive interrogation techniques by CIA agents as an "outrageous political act." In an interview with Fox News Sunday to be aired at the weekend, Cheney said the investigation would do long term damage to America's ability to protect itself, adding the administration should not punish agents for doing their jobs. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday he had named assistant US attorney John Durham to review the CIA interrogations of detainees at secret sites overseas to determine whether any laws were broken. But Cheney, who has called on the Central ... Read Full Story
From:   www.ap.org
With just two weeks of training, or about half the time it takes to become a truck driver, the CIA certified its spies as interrogation experts after 9/11 and handed them the keys to the most coercive tactics in the agency's arsenal. It was a haphazard process, cobbled together in the months following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington by an agency that had never been in the interrogation business. The result was a patchwork program in which rules kept shifting and the goals often were unclear. At times, the interrogators went too far, even beyond the wide latitude they were given ... Read Full Story
Written by SkeeterVT on
Bybee, Yoo and Bradbury Ignored More Than a Century of Court Precedents in Formulating Legal Opinions That Warterboarding Is Not Torture -- When, in Fact, It's a Crime Under Both U.S. and International Law; To Not Hold Them Accountable Would Be a Gross Miscarriage of Justice Previously-secret Justice Department memos written by former Bush administration lawyers John Yoo (left), Jay Bybee (right) and Steven Bradbury (not pictured) spelled out the legal justification for the administration's highly controversial harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, against terror suspects -- techniques since declared torture under both U.S. and international law. Former Bush officials are pushing hard for the ... Read Full Story
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Fill in the blank ← Previous revision Revision as of 16:04, 26 November 2009 Line 246: Line 246: :: That would be a light opening sentences. The sun is a star, the hammer is a tool, the rack is a torture device, waterboaring ........ consists of. Needs something after waterboarding to match most of the other ledes unless you think we need a special lede here? [[User:RTRimmel|RTRimmel]] ([[User talk...  
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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who has been leading a crusade against political science funding, on Tuesday compared the debt such spending would create to waterboarding. ...Coburn said that continuing to spend taxpayer money on programs that don't deserve it will amount to the "waterboarding" of American children. "We're going to waterboard them," Coburn said Tuesday on the Senate floor. "We're going to flood them with debt." Coburn has...  
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U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano is suggesting former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney face prosecution for allowing the waterboarding of terror suspects. Capuano (cap-yoo-AH'-noh) said Monday it appears that the orders to subject al-Qaida terror suspects to waterboarding could be traced to Cheney's office. If that's the case, Capuano said Cheney should be prosecuted. He said those carrying out the orders shouldn't be scapegoated for obeying...  
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In the wide world of Beakerkin there are two types of interviews. We do the In the Hot Seat with Beakerkin when we are doing serious political ideas punctuated with some whimsical fun.We are doing a second type of interview that is sheer apolitical mischief. We will be discussing popular culture, food products and sports. This segment is called WaterboardingOur first victim needs no introduction as he is quite well known around these parts...  
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Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, who is now among those prosecuting detainees at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, was profiled in this month’s edition of Esquire magazine. Iglesias spoke about waterboarding (”I don’t know if you’ve ever seen waterboarding, but it’s torture.”) and his belief that military commissions are the best place to try those held [...]  
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Jacques Vallee is a computer scientist, partner in a venture capital firm, and author of more than 20 books, including Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers, The Invisible College, and The Network Revolution. When it was revealed that the U.S. resorted to torture to extract information from prisoners, many people my age must have had a very somber thought for the thousands of young Americans who had given their lives on the...  
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