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Waterboarding Wiki
Follow the debate about waterboarding and whether or not waterboarding should be considered as a form of torture under international law.
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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From wired.com
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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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From badgals-radio.com
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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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From historycommons.org
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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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From corner.nationalreview.com
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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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From blogs.kansas.com
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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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