Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
GLENN GREENWALD SALON At this point, I didn’t believe it was possible, but the Obama administration has just reached an all-new low in its abysmal civil liberties record. In response to the lawsuit filed by Anwar Awlaki’s father asking a court to enjoin the President from assassinating his son, a U.S. citizen, without any due […]
MoreThomas Ricks Foreign Policy Tue, 09/15/2009 – 11:11am Former Marine commandant Charles Krulak and former Marine general Joseph Hoar, who succeeded Schwarzkopf at Central Command, dress down former VP Cheney on the issue of torture. Good for them. … we never imagined that we would feel duty-bound to publicly denounce a vice president of the […]
MoreTHE 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 […]
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