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Republicans Defend Torture With Two Tasty Words: Nancy Pelosi
Pelosi and Torture AFTER DOWNING STREET By John Nichols – http://www.thenation.com That House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been a disappointing leader for House Democrats, few serious observers of the congressional condition will deny. But now, she appears to be something more troubling: a serious hindrance to the fight against the use of the crudest and […]
More16 Year-Old Kid Held For Two Months by Feds Under Patriot Act Fiasco
Mom says Patriot Act stripped son of due process Apr. 29, 2009 AMANDA LAMB WRAL DOT COM Raleigh, North Carolina Sixteen-year-old Ashton Lundeby’s bedroom in his mother’s Granville County home is nothing, if not patriotic. Images of American flags are everywhere – on the bed, on the floor, on the wall. But according to the […]
MoreCIA Ordered To Hand Over Information About Destroyed Torture Tapes
John Byrne THE RAW STORY The Central Intelligence Agency must turn over records regarding detainee interrogation tapes the agency destroyed in an alleged effort to protect the identity of its officers. A federal judge rejected the CIA’s attempt to withhold records relating to the agency’s destruction of 92 videotapes that depicted interrogation of CIA prisoners […]
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