Real News Video of Torture Protest at Justice Department
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Cheney's Top Torture Lawyers Now Work for Obama
By David Swanson
We’ve heard of John Yoo and Alberto Gonzales, and maybe even Jay Bybee. Some of us recall John Ashcroft, Michael Mukasey, and even David Addington. William Haynes, Stephen Bradbury, and Douglas Feith occasionally make the news. If I had any say about it all 40 of these facilitators of torture would be universally known — plus the eight more that readers of this article will call to my attention and angrily
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The Emperor's Seven Signing Statements
By David Swanson
Lawless detention is the least of it. State secrets and warrantless spying scrape the surface. Drone attacks and ongoing torture begin to touch it. But central to the power of an emperor, and the catastrophes that come from the existence of an emperor, is the elimination of any other force within the government. Signing statements eliminate congress. Not that congress objects. Asking congress to reclaim its power produces nervous giggles.
Look at how the latest war supplemental
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The Humanist Publishes Issue on Torture
Nothing Sacred: What We Talk about When We Talk about Torture
A humanist perspective on ticking time-bomb scenarios, human rights, and the law
Who’s Being Protected under the Searing Bright Light?
Why Democrats and Republicans alike aren’t pushing to prosecute crafters of the torture program
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Waiting for OPR
By David Swanson
These are the top 10 reasons it makes sense that the U.S. House Judiciary Committee is waiting for a report from the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) in the Department of Justice prior to impeaching federal judge and former torture and war facilitator Jay Bybee.
10. It could turn out that writing memos pretending to legalize torture was the ethical thing to do, or at least that doing so in the future is a recommendation of Obama’s task force on interrogations.
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The Political Prosecutions of Karl Rove
By David Swanson
Embedded below is a stunning video. The Bush-Cheney-Rove Justice Department prosecuted 600 elected officials plus 2,500 collateral cases (children, elderly parents, children of defense lawyers, etc), and 85 percent of the officials were Democrats. And — this is something the filmmaker came to understand after producing this film — most of the rest were moderate Republicans, not Federalist Society Republicans.
The prosecutions were concentrated in presidential election
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Our Political Prisoners
By David Swanson
Did you know the United States has in recent years prosecuted hundreds of people for political reasons? This is a crime, or rather a crime wave, that has thus far been addressed primarily by ignoring it. You can read a lot about it from bloggers like Larisa Alexandrovna or Scott Horton. But you won’t hear the president mention it on TV.
In an attempt to convince the corporate media that this issue ranked right up there with governors’ sex lives and celebrities’
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Video: Activists Demand a “Special Prosecutor for Torture”
from: William Hughes
On Thursday, June 25, 2009, a spirited rally was held in John Marshall Park, in Washington, D.C. Its purpose: To demand that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appoint a “Special Prosecutor for Torture,” who will hold accountable to the supremacy of the Law, certain members of the Bush-Cheney Gang, including ex-President George W. Bush, Jr. and
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