Month: April 2009

Ignoring the Intelligence Torture Did Provide

One thing that Joan McCarter picked up on that I hadn’t really thought about is that the Bush administration and the Intelligence Community did pick up some pieces of high value information through their torture....

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What is the Right Balance?

The more I think about all these torture revelations, the more I come to the realization that the blame for this is spread so far and wide, between parties, agencies, departments, leaders, and the compliant media, that we all...

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Q and A on the Torture Memos

Q: What did Obama tell the Intelligence Community the other day? A: “I am not your enemy. Yes, some of you did some bad [expletive deleted in case my Mom is reading], but I will not hold you accountable for a policy that...

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Torture was used to get false confessions …

… which connected Al Qaida with Iraq. In a McClatchy article: A former U.S. Army psychiatrist, Maj. Charles Burney, told Army investigators in 2006 that interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility were...

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