Tag archive for ‘torture’
McCain’s Straight Talk Express Needed on Torture
Subtle reveal or slip? John McCain loves Jack Bauer.
Why we’re still talking about Guantanamo
What merit lies in false confession? When cornered between a rock and a hard place, man will acquiesce to practically anything.
When by nature, torture is accepted as perpetual mental or physical pain whose sole purpose is to obtain an outcome, how is accuracy and legitimacy tested? What Ulysses of a man can resist the continuous [...]
McCain votes against ban on waterboarding
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So much for Sen. John McCain being a man of principle who stood up to the Bush Administration and fellow Republicans. (See previous post on waterboarding.) Turns out, he too is just another politician hungry for [...]
While you were voting
While you were voting, phone banking, mastering delegate math or dodging a killer tornado in the Midwest, the Bush administration was busy finally admitting to and condoning torture.
CIA Director Michael Hayden chose stormy distracting Super Tuesday to concede for the record that the CIA used waterboarding to extract information from three Al Qaeda suspects. “In [...]
Heighten the interrogation!
I’m choosing to take it as incredible evidence of American faith in our democracy that anyone can still be shocked by the dirt-bag actions of the CIA. This is an organization that renders innocents to torture prisons overseas, that trains death squads, that overthrows governments and assassinates elected leaders. Now the CIA admits to destroying [...]
The tough-guy-coward platform
Yesterday McCain called out Giuliani for equivocating on waterboarding, making the mayor seem exactly like the mayor— that is, like someone who will happily prattle on no matter how head fogged by politics and ideology and wishful thinking he may be on a topic.
McCain has served in the military and has, alone among the [...]
Scalia goes CTU
Fox terror drama 24 is such damned good entertainment it apparently has persuaded not only US military personnel to ignore their commanders and the law regarding prisoner abuse but also has Supreme Court justice and apparent TV addict Antonin Scalia approaching the Constitution as if he were a character in the same exciting fictional world [...]
oh, natasha!
The new war games: Russian botnet ninjas are attacking internet service in former soviet satellite countries.
Gettouttahere.
Forreal.
Russia also recently cut off oil to Lithuania and lied about it and then embargoed Polish meat and Georgian wine… It’s a scandal, all of it. Next thing you know President Poohtin will be giving the finger to [...]
Torture TV
It was TV that did it, that damned box! And now it’s got control of the military too!
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