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Mancow, a right winged radio shock jock, was waterboarded…or was he? Gawker has uncovered that the excercise was a hoax.
The marine who “waterboarded” Mancow told the site that he had “no idea what he was doing” and that everything he knows about waterboarding, he [...]

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The debate over whether or not the disturbing images of prisoner abuse should be released had settled down between those that want full on visual transparency and those who feel that yes, Obama decision to keep the images undisclosed is correct. They will act as propaganda in attracting more terrorists.
But the topic will be in the spotlight [...]

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This week Senate Democrats, alarmists, and those worried about re-election had something to say about Gitmo prisoners being shipped to the US where they will induct other prisoners into their cult of terror and then be let loose to cause havoc on small Midwestern towns with turbans and bombs.
But OMG! They are already on American [...]

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One of Obama’s big campaign promises and one of his first moves as President was to shut down Gitmo as a symbolic gesture that the U.S. does not approve torture. That move is now getting derailed.
Yesterday, Senate Democrats decided to cut the $80 million from a spending bill that was going to fund the camp’s closure because the President [...]

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If Obama gets his way, the sweet new 365 Days Of Illegal US Torture calendar will be blocked from release.
It’s censorship! It’s anti-transparency! It’s the right thing to do!

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Condoleezza Rice seems so punch-drunk from attempting to toe the party line that she can actually get called out on torture policies of the Bush Administration by a four-year old! Misha Lerner, (read “patriot”) actually toned down the question’s strength prior to asking his question!  Her answer parallels the infamous Frost-Nixon interview of 1977:

You can [...]

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Which makes sense because in doing so, she is also sticking up for herself. However, she’s a smart woman so you’d think she’d come up with a better excuse than to dress denial in a sheep’s clothing of legal loopholes and blunders. Apparently no one told her that crime doesn’t cover crime.
This weekend during a [...]

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Pennsylvania Senior Republican Arlen Specter will run on the Democratic ticket in 2010 in “a move would give Democrats a filibuster-proof 60 seats if Al Franken is seated in the Minnesota race.”  This after assuring Republicans as recently as March that he would run on the Republican ticket. 
Said Senator Specter: “I now find my political philosophy [...]

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If “God” were just, this man would have a Grammy.

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In an effort for transparency and moving forward and maybe eventually rallying enough public outrage to put Bush officials on trial instead of just giving them a disapproving look and calling them out on late night comedy shows, the Department of Defense has announced it will release a number of pictures of abused detainees.
The release [...]

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If you felt like your nation betrayed your conscience when you witnessed the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, you can blame Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft.  If you felt like the atrocities of Abu Ghraib were reprehensible and the use of tactics such as waterboarding utterly reprehnsible, blame none other than Condoleeza Rice.
 
According to the [...]

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BIG news! Obama had said earlier that he wanted to look forward and not back, causing a fire storm amongst those who feel that Bush and his administration should be held accountable for crimes involving torture.
Today however, Obama left open a chance that a bipartisan commission could be set up to investigate Bush and his [...]

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