Policy differences or high crimes?

May 22 2009 by hijabella in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, U.S. POLITICIANS |No Comments

David Swanson: Obama allowing Cheney to play offense; constitution demands prosecution “Torture was always illegal” [CONTINUE TO VIDEO] Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

A Brief History of Waterboarding

May 17 2009 by hijabella in IMPERIALISM, U.S. POLITICIANS, US MILITARY |No Comments

HEATHER MALLICK: STAND ON GUARD The torture of waterboarding, then and now

Olbermann: "Prosecute, Mr. President!"

May 12 2009 by tom rigbert in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, IMPERIALISM, U.S. POLITICIANS |No Comments

OLBERMANN: “PROSECUTE, MR. PRESIDENT”  |||| MSNBC’s host Keith Olbermann has repeatedly asked Barack Obama to reconsider his stand regarding torture, and to prosecute those involved in this ghastly practice regardless of rank. Guest analyst Prof. Jonathan Turley, a leading Constitutional law scholar, has endorsed exactly the same point on a variety of occasions, both on [...]

Torture: the slippery slope toward boundless inhumanity

April 25 2009 by archivist39 in CIA + GOVT CRIMES |1 Comment

MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS ON PRISONERS WERE ONE OF THE MOST BARBARIC UPSHOTS OF THE NAZI REGIME. SUCH PRACTICES UNDERSCORED THE APPALLING DEGREE OF DEHUMANIZATION ATTAINED BY THE HITLERITE REGIME VIA CONSTANT PROPAGANDA BASED ON OUTRAGEOUS LIES. NO ONE PUT SUCH BELIEFS IN ACTION MORE ZEALOUSLY THAN THE MURDEROUS SS. At a moment when the US itself [...]

Obama rebuked by international rights orgs

April 19 2009 by archivist39 in Uncategorized |No Comments

CIA torture exemption ‘illegal’ A REPORT BY BBC NEWS US President Barack Obama’s decision not to prosecute CIA agents who used torture tactics is a violation of international law, a UN expert says. The UN special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, says the US is bound under the UN Convention against Torture to prosecute those [...]