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The Washington Post has an interesting article supporting the contention that harsh interrogation techniques such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding resulted in valuable intelligence from 9/11 attack planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: How a Detainee Became An Asset. These scenes provide previously unpublicized details about the transformation of the man ...
Guantanamo Bay, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, KSM, 9/11, CIA, Torture
Attorney General Eric Holder has announced he’s going to appoint a prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogations of terrorism suspects, as a prelude to possible “full scale” criminal investigations. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA ...
Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Attorney General, CIA, Terrorism, Torture, Interrogation
Lynndie England, the woman seen abusing Iraqi prisoners in the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs, is not sorry about anything — and she says she has 800 more pictures from her time in Iraq that would be very damaging to the Army and the White House if released. (She’s selling a ...
Ranting “conservative” talk show host Erich “Mancow” Muller decided he would prove that waterboarding isn’t torture by undergoing the interrogation method himself. It didn’t turn out the way he expected: Mancow Waterboarded, Admits It’s Torture. Listeners had the chance to decide whether Mancow himself or his co-host, Chicago radio ...
An excellent piece at Commentary by Arthur Herman on the history and purpose of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and the unceasing distortions and falsehoods promoted by far-left groups: The Gitmo Myth and the Torture Canard. The standard argument is that the public shift in attitude toward Gitmo was ...
Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism, Military Tribunals, Torture, Barack Obama
Here’s Jerry Weinberger’s Iraq Journal, on a visit to Saddam’s chamber of horrors. There is nothing cold about the faces one sees on the walls of the Red Museum, where from 1979 until the uprising in 1991, Saddam tortured and killed in pursuit of the Kurdish rebels. Though Saddam ...
Charles Krauthammer’s previous column provoked several angry responses from other pundits, and today he responds: The Torture Debate, Continued. This month, I wrote a column outlining two exceptions to the no-torture rule: the ticking time bomb scenario and its less extreme variant in which a high-value terrorist refuses to ...
Obviously, Nancy Pelosi can’t continue to stick to her story that she was “never told” that the CIA was using waterboarding on a few detained terrorists, now that documents have been released showing that she was briefed on it. So now she says the CIA lied to her. House ...
President Obama keeps surprising (and enraging) the far left, by actually taking his duties as Commander in Chief seriously: Obama seeks to block release of abuse photos. WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is seeking to block the release of hundreds of photos showing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan being ...
Another excellent column from Charles Krauthammer: The Use of Torture and What Nancy Pelosi Knew. Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent’s life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this ...
In an interview with CNN’s Candy Crowley, Nancy Pelosi has changed her story again; now she says she was briefed on waterboarding—but she was told the CIA wasn’t going to use it. Candy Crowley — a tough, well-informed and underrated interviewer — kicked it off by asking the Speaker ...
Former CIA director Porter J. Goss has a column in the Saturday Washington Post on the sudden “epidemic of amnesia” among House Democrats about harsh interrogation techniques: Security Before Politics. A disturbing epidemic of amnesia seems to be plaguing my former colleagues on Capitol Hill. After the Sept. 11, ...
By opening the door to prosecutions of CIA officials, President Obama is relinquishing US sovereignty in favor of international law, and the United Nations is salivating at the prospect of prosecuting American citizens: UN torture envoy: US must prosecute Bush lawyers. VIENNA – The U.S. is obligated by a ...
This is what real torture looks like, as a member of the United Arab Emirates royal family is caught on tape: ABC News Exclusive: Torture Tape Implicates UAE Royal Sheikh. [Video]
It looks like the Obama administration is getting ready to break their promise not to prosecute CIA officials: Holder: ‘follow law’ in US interrogation probe. WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday said the Justice Department will follow the law wherever it leads in probing ...
On the release of the Justice Department’s memos on interrogation techniques, the New York Times is predictably having a case of the torture vapors: Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A. The “brutal” tactics they describe sound very similar to what happens every spring in frat houses across America. ...
New York Times, Torture, Interrogation, CIA, Justice Department
This breaking news is going to drive the left completely crazy. (A short drive.) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Thursday informed CIA officials who used waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics on terror suspects that they will not be prosecuted, senior administration officials told The Associated Press. ...
The international left labeled the practice as “outsourcing torture,” and the media spent oceans of ink denouncing it. And now the hopey changey Obama administration is expanding rendition programs. WASHINGTON - The CIA’s secret prisons are being closed. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually go ...
A bulletin from the Department of the Blindingly Obvious: Study: Both Hamas and Fatah guilty of human rights violations. Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas and Fatah have both carried out serious human rights abuses over the past year, including arbitrary arrests and torture, according to a report on ...
LGF, Hamas, Fatah, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Torture
The once-mighty hordes of moonbats have dwindled to nothingness: This ain’t Hell, but you can see it from here - Guantanamo Protest in DC.
LGF, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo, Torture, Anti-war, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC
If you aren’t familiar with the story of John McCain’s capture and torture by the North Vietnamese, I highly recommend this article at US News, a reprint of McCain’s first-person account originally published in 1973: John McCain, Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account - US News and World Report. I ...
At Zomblog, a photo essay on the hate fest for law professor John Yoo at UC Berkeley: Anti-John Yoo protest at Boalt Hall law school graduation. It’s a convergence of the hysterical “torture!” ninnies and the 9/11 Troofers.
Pope Benedict visited Ground Zero today to pray for the victims of the 9/11 atrocities, and the Associated Press uses it as an excuse to bring up their favorite subject: Benedict has been critical of harsh interrogation methods, telling a meeting of the Vatican’s office for social justice last ...
LGF, Pope Benedict, Pope, Ground Zero, 9/11, Torture, Associated Press, Media Bias
Yesterday Barack Obama told a Philadelphia reporter that if elected President, he would “immediately” ask his Attorney General to look into prosecuting former Bush officials for war crimes and torture: Obama would ask his AG to ‘immediately review’ potential of crimes in Bush White House. “What I would want ...