The President made a special request to watch the now-missing tapes of the torture of the already-severely-mentally-ill-at-the-time Abu Zubaydah. You remember Abu Zubaydah right?
George Washington: No Torture on My Watch
‘Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner]. . . I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause’¦ for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.’ - George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775...
We Have Ways…
The Bush administration continues to disavow torture—and to officialize its practice. by James Bovard
‘We Do Not Torture’: The Lies Started in 1967
Via The Other Scott Horton: New York Times, ‘Branding Rite Laid to Yale University,’ Nov. 8, 1967 NEW HAVEN, Nov. 7—A Yale fraternity accused by the student newspaper of burning its initiates with a brand will have its fate decided Friday by student fraternity leaders. The fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, could face the temporary closure of its house and a $1,000 fine resulting from alleged violations of rules previously passed by the Inter-Fraternity Council, which consists of Yale’s five...
Il Duce Giuliani Has Decided Waterboarding is Torture
If the people who do it aren't U.S. government employees. Writes Andrew Sullivan: He tells the truth about what Bush and Cheney believe. Asked in Iowa last night whether he believed that waterboarding was torture, he replied: "It depends on who does it." If the Khmer Rouge does it, it's torture. If the United States does it, it's not. This man cannot be allowed to be president of the United States. He believes that the United States is above morals and the president of the United States is...
Frontline: Cheney’s Law
Tuesday, October 16, 2007, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS "Through interviews with key administration figures, Cheney's Law documents the bruising bureaucratic battles between a group of conservative Justice Department lawyers and the Office of the Vice President over the legal foundation for the most closely guarded programs in the war on terror," says FRONTLINE producer/director/writer Michael Kirk. This is Kirk's tenth documentary about the Bush administration's policies since 9/11 (Rumsfeld's War,...
