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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 […]
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 […]
MoreJane Hamsher Calls Bullshit On Rahm Emmanuel’s ‘This Week’ Appearance
JANE HAMSHER Gets it done; as usual… Because someone has to OXDOWN GAZETTE/ FIREDOGLAKE Rahm on This Week: STEPHANOPOLOUS: The President has ruled out prosecutions of CIA officials who believed they were following the law. Does he believe the officials who devised the policies should be immune from prosecution? RAHM: Yeah, what he believes is, […]
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