U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein wants to read the 2002 CIA torture memo. He wants to read it in order to decide whether or not to grant the ACLU request to make it public. From the CommonDreams writeup:
U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein issued the order after he had earlier said the 18-page memo [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Check out this article at the NYT today. Its all about how important image has become to the boyz and girlz at the CIA. Seems the CIA was paranoid that Abu Zubaydah would die whilst in their custody, so the following is what they did to protect their ‘image’:
So in the spring of 2002, even [...]

So said George Washington University Law School professor Stephen Saltzburg during the House Judiciary committee’s hearing on the tapes Thursday. Professor Saltzburg is considered an ‘expert witness’ according to the RawStory writeup. A money quote or two from Professor Saltburg’s testimony:
“The rationale for destroying the tapes to protect the identity of the interrogators is [...]

Another fine photoshop and post from Lulu Maude. Check out her blog here.
You have to admire Michael Mukasey’s academic integrity on the question of whether waterboarding can be defined as a form of torture.
Mukasey has dodged the questions of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the practice, saying that he doesn’t have the security clearance for [...]

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To watch Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Daniel Levin, torture and waterboarding, click here if the video isn’t working.
From ThinkProgress..on the eve of the vote on Mukasey..we hope..dare we pray, that this question will be at the forefront of the vote to deny this man the office of Attorney General of these United States; Is [...]