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The Bush administration "torture memos" will be 10 years old this week
It doesn't take a genius to understand that people were tortured during the Bush administration. They can use as many euphemisms as they want-- "enhanced interrogation techniques," the third degree,...
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"Prolonged solitary confinement is without a doubt psychological torture."
via ACLU.org Two years ago, Sarah Shourd was released from an Iranian prison. She and two other Americans went hiking in 2009 in Iraqi Kurdistan, but Iran accused them of spying and put them behind...
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Military judge restricts more materials in 9/11 trial. UNclassified materials.
Just now on MSNBC, Alex Witt said this (I'm coming in mid-sentence, but she was discussing the Zero Dark Thirty controversy): "...Enhanced interrogation techniques-- torture-- some will call it that."...
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After 11 years, still no justice for this Kuwaiti Gitmo prisoner. #FreeFayiz
I've been teaming up with military defense attorney Lt. Col. Barry Wingard for at least four years to get his story about his client out. His client just happens to be a Guantanamo Bay detainee named...
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Gitmo "is forgotten and its condemned men will never get an opportunity to...
I recently posted After 11 years, still no justice for this Kuwaiti Gitmo prisoner. #FreeFayiz about Lt. Col. Barry Wingard's client, Fayiz Al-Kandari. I've been writing about Fayiz's story for years....
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New horrifying report-- 2004: Rumsfeld, Cheney, Col. Jim Steele, secret...
Please, just go read the entire article at The Guardian. It's substantive, it's a little long, but it's a must-read.There's video there, too. Two of the videos are only seconds long: On the 10th...
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No charges, no trials: "After 11 1/2 years, these men live in animal cages......
There is a video at the RT site that I hope you'll watch. Since it's not embeddable, all I can do is transcribe it. My longtime buddy Lt. Col. Barry Wingard was interviewed about the hunger strike by...
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VIDEO-- Melissa Harris-Perry: "While Congress continues to make it impossible...
I cannot thank Melissa Harris-Perry enough for including this segment on her show. Regular readers know I've been covering Guantanamo Bay detainee/torture/indefinite detention stories for years,...
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UN human rights chief: Guantánamo Bay is in “clear breach” of international...
via ACLU.org I’ve written about Guantanamo Bay for years, specifically about Lt. Col. Barry Wingard who represents Kuwaiti detainee Fayiz Al-Kandari. Fayiz is not a terrorist, yet he’s been abused,...
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What I will not write about today
Sometimes I get so frustrated and/or disheartened and/or annoyed by some of the news stories of the day that I can’t bring myself to write about them. Here are a few recent reports that made my blood...
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Nonpartisan, independent review: "Indisputable" that U.S. under Bush...
The Constitution Project’s task force on detainee treatment had no access to classified records. It was led by two former members of Congress with experience in the executive branch — Asa Hutchinson...
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Entire VIDEO: President Obama press conference on Gitmo, Syria, Benghazi,...
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy You can find the entire transcript here. Here are a few excerpts. Please note, there were no questions about jobs, jobs,...
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VIDEO: Why You Should Care About The Massive #Guantanamo Hunger Strike
LeeCamp2: Two-thirds of the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) have been hunger striking since February. Some may soon die. But there's a reason you should care about these men... 1) Get more info...
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Gitmo detainee Fayiz Al-Kandari, who is not a terrorist and was sold for...
Today's L.A. Times letter to the editor, because our voices matter: As an American and a Jew, I am horrified that we are still holding men at Guantanamo Bay. It reminds me of the Germans holding Jews...
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Taxpayers Pay Nearly $1,000,000 a Year to Incarcerate a Guantanamo Inmate...
Image via ACLU.org Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via my pal Mark Karlin: The hunger strike at Guantanamo is nearing 100 days long (with the majority of detainees participating). The Nation...
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"This seems to be exactly what our founders abhorred."
Today's L.A. Times letters to the editor, because our voices matter: Re "Obama's Gitmo woes," Opinion, May 5 As a fan of Doyle McManus, I was disappointed to read his claim that most of the detainees...
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GOP hates spending, so Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) intros bill to boost Pentagon...
Via Watch as Senate Democrats point at laugh at the House Armed Services panel's Defense authorization bill that would hike Pentagon spending by $5 billion. Because, see, what we need now is to pour...
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VIDEO: #Guantanamo Bay hunger strike force feeding protest #FreeFayiz
Jacob Dean of Filter Free Radio is a longtime pal o' mine from various shows we have in common on the Radio Machine. He's a very young, very cool guy who knows a lot about a lot and speaks his mind....
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"Fiscal conservatives": Shutting Down Gitmo Would Save a 1%er's Fortune
It's costing the American people about a billion per Guantanamo detainee. Let that sink in. President Obama was elected in part on his promise to shut that human rights travesty down, and as we...
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A Bucket of Ice Water
When Homer Simpson joins in, you know you've gone viral. Although the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has raised awareness about the disease and a lot of money, there's so much we still don't know about it -...
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