Dec 29 2014
I usually like Ray Warner’s thoughtful, measured essays on the issues of the day, but he really missed it by a mile on this one. First of all, there is absolutely no evidence that torture works. There is only hearsay by the proponents of torture. These are people who are, in fact, international war …
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Dec 24 2014
Torture and the Truth By Jane Mayer, December 22, 2014 (issue of The New Yorker) It’s hard to describe it as a positive development when a branch of the federal government releases a four-hundred-and-ninety-nine-page report that explains, in meticulous detail, how unthinkable cruelty became official U.S. policy. But last Tuesday, in releasing the long-awaited Senate …
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Dec 19 2014
Meet Alfreda Bikowsky, the Senior Officer at the Center of the CIA’s Torture Scandals By Glenn Greenwald and Peter Maass, 12/19/2014 11:28 AM NBC News yesterday called her a “key apologist” for the CIA’s torture program. A follow-up New Yorker article dubbed her “The Unidentified Queen of Torture” and in part “the model for the lead character in ‘Zero …
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Dec 19 2014
The Unidentified Queen of Torture By Jane Mayer, December 18, 2014 For the past eight months, there has been a furious battle raging behind closed doors at the White House, the C.I.A., and in Congress. The question has been whether the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence would be allowed to use pseudonyms as a …
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Dec 12 2014
After Torture Report, Our Moral Authority As a Nation Is Gone By Nick Gillespie, 12.11.14 By now, we’ve all glossed The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s “Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program or skimmed summaries of it, hunting for the sickest parts the same way we fast-forwarded through “Two Girls, …
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Dec 11 2014
A (redacted) poem for the torture report By Brian Turner, Wednesday 10 December 2014 13.54 EST TOP SECRET //████████//NOFORN What are we to do after the white noise, after the wallings, the rough takedowns and deprivations of sleep, nudity, rectal rehydration and rectally infused feedings, the President’s daily briefings, …
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Dec 09 2014
America’s shame and disgrace The Guardian editorial, Tuesday 9 December 2014 14.49 EST President Ronald Reagan signed the United Nations convention against torture in 1988 and the United States ratified it six years later in 1994. Seven years after that, in 2001, the US nevertheless started to use torture on a systematic basis. That …
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