Comments on: What Torture Is, and Why It’s Illegal and Not “Poor Judgment”

By: Former CIA Interrogator Speaks Out Against Torture - OpEd

Former CIA Interrogator Speaks Out Against Torture - OpEd — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:19:38 +0000

[...] Bush administration, and much of it is the right sort of buzz — openly involving reminders that torture is a crime, and that, in addition, using torture is worthless if the aim is to produce reliable information. [...]

By: New York Times Attempts To Stifle Torture Debate - OpEd

New York Times Attempts To Stifle Torture Debate - OpEd — Tue, 10 May 2011 08:45:06 +0000

[...] Conventions into an unrecognizable mess to excuse torture” in what will forever be known as the “torture memos.”The Times also recognized torture as “immoral and illegal and counterproductive,” and stated [...]

By: Former CIA "Ghost Prisoner" Abu Zubaydah Recognized as "Victim" in Polish Probe of Secret Prison – Left Blog Feeds- Progressive News

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:33:32 +0000

[...] Zubaydah by Public domain For those seeking accountabiity for the senior Bush administration officials and lawyers who established a global torture [...]

By: Former CIA “Ghost Prisoner” Abu Zubaydah Recognized as “Victim” in Polish Probe of Secret Prison « Eurasia Review

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:52:58 +0000

[...] those seeking accountabiity for the senior Bush administration officials and lawyers who established a global torture program [...]

By: Hounding a Torture Judge: A Report by Susan Harman on the Campaign to Impeach Jay S. Bybee « Eurasia Review

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:16:46 +0000

[...] the report’s conclusion — that both men were guilty of “professional misconduct” — concluding instead that they had merely exercised “poor [...]

By: In Upcoming Book Bush Admits to Waterboarding | Watts Cookin'

In Upcoming Book Bush Admits to Waterboarding | Watts Cookin' — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:26:33 +0000

[...] many crimes – including the illegal invasion of Iraq, and the authorization of the use of torture on “high-value detainees” seized in the “War on [...]

By: Paul Wolfowitz authorized human experimentation at Guantánamo | The Elephant In the Living Room

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:20:49 +0000

[...] to raise awareness of the horrors of torture, and the requirement that those who authorized it be held accountable for their crimes. You can read much more at the Andy Worthington website. This entry was posted on Monday, [...]

By: The Bush Administration and Human Experimentation at Guantánamo Bay « Craig Considine

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:27:20 +0000

[...] The article — which involved over a year of research, as Leopold and Kaye persuaded former officials to open up to them — not only adds to Leopold’s important work and to Kaye’s formidable track record as a chronicler of the development of human experimentation in the Bush administration’s “War on Terror” torture program (which he has also revealed as part of an obsession with human experimentation reaching back to the 1950s), but also confirms the existence of an important new front in the struggle to raise awareness of the horrors of torture, and the requirement that those who authorized it be held accountable for their crimes. [...]

By: Nine Years After 9/11, US Court Concedes that International Laws of War Restrict President’s Wartime Powers « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:27:41 +0000

[...] As recently as February this year, Yoo continued to defend the President’s absolute right to do what he considered “necessary” in wartime without opposition, and was, to a distressing extent, justified in doing so when a senior Justice Department official, David Margolis, rewrote the conclusion of a four-year internal investigation into the “torture memos,” claiming that Yoo (and Jay S. Bybee, the head of the OLC), were not guilty of “professional misconduct,” as the report’s authors had asserted, but had, instead, merely exercised “poor judgment.” [...]

By: The Torture of Omar Khadr, a Child in Bagram and Guantánamo « roger hollander

Thu, 13 May 2010 20:17:54 +0000

[...] Counsel, which is supposed to objectively interpret the law as it applies to the executive branch, purported to redefine torture, in two memos that have become known as the “torture memos,” as the infliction of [...]