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Bob Somerby on Maddow, Dowd, Matthews and Mission Accomplished

THE DAILY HOWLER LIKE DOWD ON RICE: Good God. The history of an age could be found in Greg Mitchell’s post last Friday. Or could it? On the sixth anniversary of “Mission Accomplished,” Mitchell recalled the way big pundits recorded Commander Bush’s splashdown on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. The commander strutted about […]

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CIA 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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New Rules From Bill Maher For April 24, 2009

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Flashback :: Bill O’Reilly Supports Torture

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Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects

THE NEW YORK TIMES April 20, 2009 By SCOTT SHANE C.I.A. interrogators used waterboarding, the near-drowning technique that top Obama administration officials have described as illegal torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda, far more than had been previously reported. The C.I.A. officers used waterboarding at least 83 times in August 2002 […]