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Dose of Durst
George Bush vetoed the torture ban bill, reinforcing his reputation as not a divider, but a waterboarding uniter....
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Academy Awards: Saying Thank You & Congratulations to Alex Gibney
Last night saw at least one pleasant surprise for the proponents of progressive values - a Best Documentary Feature win for Alex Gibney, director of Taxi To The Dark Side, a film which takes a look at the death of...
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Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Did we just wake up in a David Lynch film? In the worst case scenario -- when there is an imminent threat of a nuclear attack on American soil -- Lieberman said that the president should be able to certify...
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Another Veto Coming?
In Bush's final year, it's good to know he's thinking about his legacy. As The New York Times reports: The Senate voted 51 to 45 on Wednesday afternoon to ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods used by the Central...
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Dick Cheney Is The Best
Yesterday, President Bush declared that Dick Cheney is "the best Vice President in history." And in some respects, Bush is right. Cheney is ...the best at telling us about the "last throes" of the Iraqi insurgency. ...the best at defending...
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Tortured Logic
Could the President be afraid of America being sued for torture? That's the compelling argument made by Scott Horton in Harpers: that the veto of the Defense bill was really about killing a provision that says suing foreign governments for...
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A Pro Forma "No" On Torture
The Senate Dems have finally said a resounding "No!" to torture! Well...sort of... Although the Democrats have been ineffective at trying to restore Habeas Corpus or blocking an AG who won't call water-boarding "torture," they did stand up today to...
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C I Ain't Telling the Whole Story
When the respected bipartisan chairs are saying the 9/11 Commission was deceived by the CIA, we have a problem. The level of doublethink logic, as described by ThinkProgress, is astounding: CIA spokesman Mike Mansfield said recently that the tapes weren't...
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Is Mukasey on the Case?
While there's ample reason to criticize the new AG, Mukasey does deserve credit for the new guidelines limiting communications between his staff and the White House during investigations. If only the CIA had had the same policy, maybe they wouldn't...
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Nominee for Deputy Attorney General Says Waterboarding is Repugnant, Not Sure if It's Torture
From today's confirmation hearings of AG Nominee Mark Flip, courtesy of Think Progress: KENNEDY: The key question is what constitutes torture. So the question that Judge Mukasey would say nothing at all on that question. So the same question to...
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White House Hearts Fox News
In case there's any doubt about the close kissing-cousin relationship between Fox News and the White House, cast it aside: Tony Snow, who left Fox to become the President's spokesperson, is returning to guest host the O'Reilly Factor. Thank you,...
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House Votes to Ban Waterboarding
Now let's see what happens next....
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And The Rack Is Just Like Pilates
Watch Senator Kit Bond compare waterboarding to "like swimming, freestyle, backstroke."...
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Dose of Durst
Nobody can decide if water boarding is torture, even though the inventor, Torquemada, called it "tortura de agua." And as head of the Spanish Inquisition I consider him pretty much an authority....
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What Doesn't Kill John Ashcroft Only Makes John Ashcroft Stronger
When John Ashcroft spoke at the University of Colorado last night, he had some mighty interesting things to say to the student body about torture: Ashcroft also responded to questions from the audience. The first question came from a woman...
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Surprise vote on Mukasey - that's leadership
Take a look a the front page of TalkingPointsMemo. Forget waterboarding or any prospect of a filibuster. The AG was confirmed 53-40 under cover of darkness. The senators running for president skipped the vote. Clearly there were enough votes to...
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Time to Do Some Editing
We either need to edit the dictionary or edit any laws about torture -- because either water-boarding no longer equals torture or torture is no longer taboo...at least that seems to be the choices we face as more powerful Senators...
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Screening Liberally Big Picture: Rendition and the Modern Issue Film in an Era of High Broderism
By Josh Bolotsky, Living Liberally There are several things you might expect a review of Gavin Hood's new film Rendition, out today, to begin with. Perhaps a discussion of Reese Witherspoon's first role since 2005's Walk The Line; maybe a...
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Tortured Comedy
Goodbye, secret torture memos. Hello, weekend. Don't worry -- torture will still be going on when we get back on Monday....
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More From the Files of "Worst President Ever"
When the Justice Department publicly declared torture "abhorrent" in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations. But soon after Alberto R. Gonzales's arrival...
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Slowpoke: The Puppy Principle - Featured Cartoon
Today's featured cartoon shows us that the quickest way to a nation's conscience is through man's best friend. And suddenly, "for the dogs" may not be such a bad thing. It's certainly better than some of the things our...
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Slowpoke: The Next Box Sets - Featured Cartoon
Today's featured cartoon imagines the sounds of torture grouped as a collector's edition album along with other musical compilations we'd never want to buy. I guess the best we can hope for is that when we start to restore...
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Joke of the Day
Because you need to start your Monday with a little laughter... The Bush administration has officially redefined the word "torture". And why not? Over the years, they have redefined a bunch of words, including "election", "mandate", and "victory." - Costaki...
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"I Want to Double Guantanamo"
I want them on Guantanamo where they don't get the access to lawyers they get when they are on our soil....Some people have said we ought to close Guantanamo. My view is we ought to double Guantanamo. - Mitt Romney,...
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This Modern World: Extraordinary Rendition -- or Free Surprise Vacation? - Featured Cartoon
Tom Tomorrow takes us on a trip with the travel agents of extraordinary rendition. Amazing the power of this cartoon to make you smile, even while its content tears up your insides, just as this Administration had torn up...
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