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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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From:   www.afp.com
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
From:   www.afp.com
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
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A US-based medical rights advocacy group on Monday blasted health experts for playing a "central role" in advising and implementing the CIA's abusive interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) issued its six-page white paper after shocking details about the range of techniques used by interrogators, including the simulated drowning known as waterboarding, came to light one week ago with release of a 2004 CIA inspector general's report. The revelations have fueled the raging debate over interrogations during the "war on terror" of the George W. Bush administration. "Health professionals played a central role in developing, implementing and providing justification ... Read Full Story
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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
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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Painful interrogation techniques like waterboarding don't work, according to a new review of the psychological literature. The belief that "enhanced interrogation" produces valuable intelligence information is just "folk neurobiology," the lead researcher says.  
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SuperNews! Ep. 8 “Strippers? Hookers? Hair Gel?” // Current. SuperNews! Ep. 8 “Strippers? Hookers? Hair Gel?” this week we compare two manic personalities – from the news. one thinks he runs the world, and the other one will never admit that he tried to run it into the ground; Dick and Weezie, yeah the dynamic duo. Supernews had this really great opening sketch all about Dick and Waterboarding so we had to share it with you. hopefully you...  
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Republican senator and presidential candidate John McCain (R-AZ) says that during World War II, Japanese soldiers were tried and hanged for war crimes involving the waterboarding of American prisoners of war. "There should be little doubt from American history that we consider that [waterboarding] as torture otherwise we wouldn't have tried and convicted Japanese for doing that same thing to Americans," McCain says. He notes that he forgot to...  
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... at least not as it was administered by the CIA under Justice Department guidance.  That was the topic of my speech at the conference in Washington marking Accuracy In Media's 40th Anniversary.  As I think Jonah mentioned earlier, the festivities were carried by CSPAN-2.  My appearance can be seen here (beginning a little over an hour and 16 minutes -- around 1:16:30 or so-- into the morning session).  If you're prone to dizziness, you may...  
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“I have five grandchildren. I look in their eyes, and I see the potential of their lives and all of these other children who are out there. You know what? We are going to waterboard them. That is what we are going to do. We are going to waterboard them. We are going to flood [...]  
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Political observers like The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan have argued that one of the most dangerous elements of the Bush administration's torture policies was the risk that a "torture mentality" would take hold in American society. Those who seek evidence for that theory need look no further than Great Falls, Montana, where two teacher's aides have been [...]  
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