of the alleged beacon of freedom, democracy, and good will withholding the most fundamental human need?  coming on the heels of the poll that found that at least 44% of america say it’s ok to torture- it makes me wonder who the fuck american really is- and can we just drop the facade of being [...]

slurring his words like a drunk, bush blames abu ghraib on ’some soldiers’

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investigative journalism by the mainstream, corporate controlled press is dead. but, do not despair- there are a few brave journalists with the good old fashioned desire to dig out the truth.

associated press demands bloggers cease using excerpts,bush and brown dine with rupert murdoch, rupert murdoch appointed to ap board: if that doesn’t spell out where freedom of the press went, i really don’t know what does.

This past Saturday, May 17th, the UC Berkley Law School held it’s graduation ceremony. It was attended by over 50 active and very vocal protesters. Most were dressed in prison orange and many were holding signs or reenacting various Guantanamo torture scenes for the graduates and their family members.
As someone that opposes torture as described [...]

After being held for SIX years, Sudanese native Sami al-Haj has finally been released. From the AP story:
Haj was arrested by the Pakistani army on the Afghan border in December 2001 and had been held without charge at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba since June 2002.
The Pentagon would not immediately comment [...]

Turley is a Constitutional Law Prof and he seems almost cavalier in his pronouncement that this is a war crime. But he has been saying that BushCo is full of war criminals for years now..so perhaps that is why he is non-plussed over this new revelation.

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The appalling lack of respect BushCo exhibits for our constitution never ceases to amaze me. From Jurist:
The US Justice Department advised the Bush administration in October 2001 that the protection against unreasonable searches and seizures enshrined in the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution did not apply to “domestic military operations” conducted in pursuit of [...]

Yes, that title is not incorrect..we, the universal we, through the ages, have used and obsessed about Waterboarding my dear reader. Nothing makes that point clearer than the picture you see below these words you are now reading. That is a picture of American’s waterboarding a Filipino in 1901. We are even doing it in [...]

The folks over at the Justice Department are possibly going to release an unclassified version of an upcoming report “that its internal ethics office was investigating the department’s legal approval for waterboarding of Qaeda suspects by the Central Intelligence Agency”.
Now, I don’t know about you..but I really want to read that report. A Justice [...]

There is a new haunt for Spencer Ackerman, who used to write for TPM muckraker. Its called The Washington Independent. He has a very good post up this morning about Torture and BushCo..two words that sadly go together like hide and seek. A small blurb from his writeup entitled “CIA Largely in the Dark on [...]

Bout damn time too! Bush and his Bushies might not call it torture but everyone else in the friggin world does..The United States of America is mentioned in the same sentence as Syria and Iran..this dubious distinction is because like those two..we TORTURE our prisoners. Oh, the friggin irony is rich indeed!

I want the world [...]

Sadly his reasons are shallow. Not because of what has been done there in our name, but because it makes us look bad around the world. AP has this:
By ROBERT BURNS
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - The chief of the U.S. military said Sunday he favors closing the prison here as soon as possible [...]

“They’re living in the tropics… They’ve got everything they could possibly want.”
- Dick Cheney
Torture and indefinite detention are shamefully un-American, inhumane, unconscionable.
WEAR ORANGE January 11 and protest the shame that is Guantánamo Bay.
www.aclu.org/closegitmo
To me, the guantanamo prison is an especially low spot in US history. What would be the need to have a prison housed [...]

Seems BushCo might have a bad case of indigestion this week. From TPMmuckraker we get some lovely news:
Judge Orders Hearing on Destruction of CIA Torture Tapes
And the judicial branch enters the fray.
Much to the administration’s chagrin, Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. has ordered a hearing on the CIA’s destruction of the torture tapes for this [...]