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Results tagged “torture”
May 14 2009, 4:54PM
Ten Reasons Why A Torture Probe Is More Likely
Even as the Obama Administration remains resolutely opposed to a Truth Commission or major criminal investigation into TortureKampf, the wagon may have already been unhitched. Given the ten developments below,...
May 14 2009, 12:03PM
Pelosi Fights Back
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today repeated her claim that she was not briefed by the CIA on harsh interrogation tactics and suggested (as Republican Pete Hoekstra has) that the CIA...
May 13 2009, 2:20PM
Why Did Obama Reverse Course On The Torture Pictures?
I don't know. The White House says that President Obama concluded that the photographs' release could bring harm to United States troops. His spokesman, Robert Gibbs, very carefully and slowly offered...
May 13 2009, 10:16AM
The Agent In Place: Torture Didn't Work
The Senate Judiciary Committee hears testimony from former lead FBI counterterrorism agent Ali Soufan. Soufan calls "enhanced interrogation techniques" "ineffective, slow, unreliable" and therefore harmful, "aside from the important considerations...
May 8 2009, 11:00AM
What Pelosi Knew
Responses among the cognoscenti to the CIA's contention that it briefed Nancy Pelosi on the use of enhanced interrogation techniques are fairly typical. Those inclined to defend Democrats point to...
May 6 2009, 3:25PM
Congress Takes Its First Look At Interrogation Memos
Whether or not Congress organizes a so-called "truth commission," and whether or not Attorney General Eric Holder's Department of Justice decides to prosecute, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is determined to...
May 4 2009, 2:23PM
Torture's Scapegoats
In the upcoming issue of The New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch notes that the only Americans ever prosecuted and sentenced for Bush-era detainee policies are ten low-ranking military personnel involved in...
Apr 24 2009, 11:53AM
Why Obama Doesn't Care About Yoo
The Atlantic's coverage of the first 100 days of the Obama presidency begins next week, assuming the geeks don't rise. But this blog will focus on the second 100 days....
Apr 22 2009, 5:16PM
Holder On Torture Prosecutions: An Update
The Justice Department passes along, at my request, a transcript of Attorney General Eric Holder's remarks today at an Earth Day ceremony: Q: Would you like to comment on...
Apr 22 2009, 5:04PM
Torture: Who Was In The Key Meetings?
This newly declassified history comes courtesy of Sen. Jay Rockefeller and the Senate intelligence committee. It includes a bit of information about the post 2005 Office of Legal Counsel memoranda...
Apr 22 2009, 3:28PM
Gitmo Ruling Of The Day: Jawad Gets Habeas
A federal judge has once again thrown the Obama administration for a loop: District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle ordered an immediate habeas corpus hearing for two long-time detainees. The government...
Apr 22 2009, 10:57AM
Why Won't The Administration Use "Torture"?
The word, not the practice. Greg Sargent's White House sources tell him that there was no "intentional" shift in language -- that there's no rhyme or reason for using "enhanced...
Apr 21 2009, 3:44PM
Obama's Truth-Commission Ideals Mesh With Congress's
President Obama, taking questions from reporters earlier today, fielded one on the possibility of a truth commission to investigate the Bush administration for potential abuses of wartime power, including torture....
Apr 20 2009, 12:28PM
On Torture, Who Could Still Be Prosecuted or Dinged? A Brief Rundown...
Senior Justice Department lawyers won't face prosecution for providing bad legal advice, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said this weekend. But if a widely-anticipated report from the Office of Professional...
Apr 17 2009, 4:59PM
Feingold Wants Policymakers Prosecuted
From an interview with the editorial board of the Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter in Manitowoc, WI, Sen. Russ Feingold: "I understand that the president believes that the people who actually administered these...
Apr 17 2009, 1:25PM
On Torture, Theory Versus Practice
I'd like to point you to this article by the American Prospect's Adam Serwer, who compared the strictures placed on interrogations in the OLC memos with the practices described by...
Apr 16 2009, 4:50PM
Did Obama/Holder Really Grant Immunity?
A reader walks me through an argument that I considered, dismissed, and am now forced to consider again:Here's what Attorney General Holder said today in his statement: "Holder also stressed...
Mar 5 2009, 5:02PM
CIA to Get Investigated
The Bush administration review plot thickens: Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) Senate Intelligence Committee announced Thursday that it will undertake a year-long investigation of CIA detention and interrogation policies under the Bush...
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