A former No. 2 State Department official in the Bush administration says he hopes he would have had the courage to resign if he had known the CIA was subjecting terrorism suspects to waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning.
Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr. says waterboarding is torture.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday defended tough interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects approved by the Bush administration in the wake of 9/11, saying they were necessary to protect America from new attacks.
President Bush said Saturday he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks.
The United Nations' torture investigator criticized the White House Wednesday for defending the use of waterboarding and urged the U.S. to give up its defense of "unjustifiable" interrogation methods.
Protesters staged a waterboarding Monday outside the Justice Department, calling for a Senate committee to reject attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey because of his reluctance to define the interrogation tactic as torture.
Marjorie Cohn, President of the Lawyers Guild and Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego writes a concise roundup of the torture case against the Bush war criminals.
Who will Lend? Waterboarding or No Brains? All About Abortion and Affirmative Action.
In this opinion piece Dr. Pauline Chen likens her experience as a surgeon to the activities of the Bush war criminals who became so desensitized to the idea of torture that they became bent on justifying it.
Nothing better shows the utter cowardice of American journalism than Washington Post reporters refusing to call a spade a spade. In other a word, calling "enhanced interrogation" torture.
... According to current and former government officials, the CIA's secret waterboarding program was designed and assured to be safe by two well-paid psychologists now working out of an unmarked office building in Spokane, Washington.
Over a week ago -- on Thurs., April 22 -- Fox News' torture enthusiast Sean Hannity agreed to be waterboarded for charity to prove that it is not torture.
In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter used claims that insects were used in interrogations to mock CIA torture as "wussie" and "things that people pay to have done to them at Six Flags." She didn't mention that detainees had been waterboarded over 200 …
More than a week ago Sean Hannity, a prime Fox regurgitator of right-wing machismo, offered to be waterboarded. "I don't believe waterboarding is torture," Hannity insisted.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been pushing for a "truth commission" to investigate the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques like waterboarding -- until Republicans started shining the spotlight on Pelosi herself. Now she is not so adamant.
Multiple "co-sponsors" URLs demanding prosecution of those responsible for waterboarding and torture.
In the view of many, the emergent Swine Flu pandemic has diverted attention away from the debate on torture.
In the space of a week, the torture debate in America has been suddenly transformed. The Bush administration left office resting its case on the claim it did not torture.
That's what I'm wondering when I read this NY Times story by Brian Stelter: How '07 ABC Interview Tilted a Torture Debate By BRIAN STELTER Published: April 27, 2009
When Franklin Roosevelt died, the fact that we had been developing nuclear weapons came as a big surprise to Harry Truman, his successor. You would expect that a person of such stature as the vice-president would be involved in something as important as the Ma …
Apparently the number of times Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded was much lower than indicated in recent news reports.
I'm really getting sick of the legal attempts to turn this country into a society that acts like those who behead, torture, basically stuck in the middle ages. So lets have at it, lets look at the actually legality of it.
Federal prosecutors secured a 10-year sentence against the sheriff and four years in prison for the deputies.
It is time for all combat veterans from all past wars to explain to our unknowing government officials what actually constitutes torture.
The issue of the Bush Administration's enhanced interrogation techniques involve several inter-related questions.
The relevant numbers are buried in the poll's internals: Seventy one percent think waterboarding is torture, while only 26% say it isn't. Intriguingly, the paper's article about the poll doesn't mention this finding, perhaps because that might have necessitated using the …
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Finds Person To Waterboard FOX's Sean Hannity for Charity - 04/27/09
In late 2007, there was the first crack of daylight into the government's use of waterboarding during interrogations of Al Qaeda detainees. On Dec. 10, John Kiriakou, a former C.I.A.
It used to be said that self-preservation is the first law of nature. But much of what has been happening in recent times in the United States, and in Western Civilization in general, suggests that survival is taking a back seat to the shibboleths of political correctness.