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Federal Court Holds Pentagon in Contempt

WASHINGTON (Dec. 10) -- A federal court has held the Defense Department in contempt after officials at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, failed to videotape the testimony of a Yemeni detainee as ordered. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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How Drug-Industry Lobbyists Won on Health-Care

Is there something out of whack when there are more lobbyists, each paid more handsomely, than Congressmen? When outsourced contractors earn more than patriots? When there are no limits to the price of greed? [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Clinton allegedly threatens Brits to keep torture evidence secret

Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, personally intervened to suppress evidence of CIA collusion in the torture of a British resident, the high court heard today. . . . David Miliband, the foreign secretary, has repeatedly told the court that t [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Yahoo Bans Anti-Obama Flickr Commenter (YHOO)

About a week after China blocked Flickr during the 20th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre, Yahoo (YHOO) has banned a paying Flickr Pro account holder named Shepherd Johnson after he left comments on photos uploaded by the White House's offi [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Supreme Court Says Sept. 11 Detainee Cannot Sue Ashcroft, Mueller

The court ruled 5 to 4 that the top officials were not liable for the allegedly discriminatory actions of their subordinates unless they had ordered the measures. The decision affects similar lawsuits filed by Arab Muslims picked up after the attacks, [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Pelosi Accuses CIA of 'Misleading' Her on Interrogations

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today accused the CIA of "misleading" her on the use of harsh interrogation techniques in the fall of 2002, acknowledging for the first time publicly she knew alleged terrorist detainees were subjected to waterboarding more  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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4th-Grader Questions Rice on Waterboarding

Days after telling students at Stanford University that waterboarding was legal "by definition if it was authorized by the president," former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice was pressed again on the subject yesterday by a fourth-grader at a Washin [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Did waterboarding work?

Reporting from Washington - The release of internal Bush administration interrogation memos this week answered long-standing questions about the CIA's techniques for getting prisoners to talk, but left unsettled a debate in Washington over whether tho [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Should Graner be freed? He's serving 10 years for prisoner abuse

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Graner remains locked up at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., about halfway through a 10-year prison sentence for detainee abuse, assault and dereliction of duty. His lawyer said this week that he is drafting appeals arguments centered largely on the revelation [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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We tortured 2 prisoners to death in Afghanistan in 2002

A combination of “enhanced interrogation” techniques approved by high-level Bush administration officials coupled with a series of brutal beatings administered by military interrogators were directly responsible for the December 2002 deaths of two [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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FBI: Key Sept. 11 Leads Obtained Without Torture

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One of the critical questions in the debate over the CIA's use of harsh interrogation tactics is this: Did they work? The case of Abu Zubaydah is often held up as the quintessential example of why enhanced interrogation techniques are a necessary e [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Do we owe Lynddie England an Apology if She's the Only One?

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(the only one punished for torture?) "You’ve heard about the torture stuff by now. Obama released a bunch of documents written by your former employees (the guys whose salary you pay with your tax dollars). He just wanted you to see what they were [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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