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Entries from April 2009

April 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey.
The Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture rallied on Capitol Hill in March 2008.
The Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture rallied on Capitol Hill in March 2008.
More than half of people who [...]

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Read the torture memos report

April 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

The New York Times international edition includes info on the released torture memos as well as links to additional relevant info, including originals at the ACLU site.
Check it out here.

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Janice Karpinski on Keith

April 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

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Nuremburg, anyone?

April 23rd, 2009 · 6 Comments

The current flogging of the torture issue may very well drive this blogger to a scream: the loathsome and without scruples Dick Cheney says such treatment called forth city-saving intelligence. Others argue that other, legal means would have had equal success.
And both side fog endlessly about who bears the ultimate responsibility: those who carry out [...]

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