After signaling Wednesday morning he’ll reopen CIA black prisons, der Fuhrer Trumpen said Wednesday afternoon he’s “asked intelligence officials about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on terror suspects” and alleges they told him torture “works.” “I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Torture’
June 17th, 2015 - 8:54 am § in Politics
These 21 U.S. senators just voted in favor of torturing people
Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Tom Cotton of Arkansas Michael Crapo of Idaho James Risch of Idaho Daniel Coats of Indiana Joni Ernst of Iowa Pat Roberts of Kansas Mitch McConnell of Kentucky David Vitter of Louisiana Thad Cochran of Mississippi Roy Blunt of Missouri Deb Fischer of Nebraska Benjamin Sasse[...]
December 22nd, 2014 - 10:47 pm § in Politics
Would Jesus Torture People?
Of course he would! He’d pull out fingernails, then chop off fingers, one knuckle at a time. And whatever else it takes to get suspects to talk. At least, that’s what Virginia state senator Steve Martin says he would do for God and Country. And he has plenty of fans who “like”[...]
December 22nd, 2014 - 9:17 am § in Politics
NY Times editorial demands prosecution of torturers
In a blistering editorial today, the New York Times editorial board said the U.S. government must come to terms, “legally and morally,” with the torture of terrorism suspects under the Bush administration, and demanded the Obama administration appoint a special prosecutor to conduct a &#[...]
December 17th, 2014 - 5:20 pm § in Misc.
Republican Legal Thug Says CIA Perps Could be Charged
John Yoo: If the Torture Report Is True, CIA Officers Are at Legal Risk By Conor Friedersdorf A surprising admission by an attorney who was instrumental in enabling the Bush Administration’s brutal interrogation practices[...]
December 14th, 2014 - 5:34 pm § in Misc.
Scalia is only the latest conservative to assert that torture is OK
Now that it’s been definitively established the Bush regime tortured terrorism suspects, conservatives are rallying around a theme that goes roughly like this: Torture is, at worst, morally ambiguous; and using it is sometimes okay to prevent greater harm. It sounds like a talking point manufa[...]
December 9th, 2014 - 4:13 pm § in America
McCain reacts to CIA torture report
McCain: CIA Torture ‘Stained Our National Honor’ Sen. John McCain speaks more authoritatively about torture than most people, because he endured torture as a POW. Here’s what he said today after the release of the Senate’s torture report over the objections of many Republican[...]
February 18th, 2014 - 12:20 pm § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge: Who said this?
Eichmann or Cheney?[...]
Why Dick Cheney is ‘full of crap’
Real-life success refutes b.s. every time. Major Sherwood F. Moran, USMC, who was the most successful U.S. military interrogator of World War 2 and wrote the U.S. armed forces interrogators’ “bible,” never tortured anyone. Not even the loathesome Japanese. He used empathetic rather[...]