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[Adam Ash] US Diary: all about the Pentagon lawyer who... : The draft working-group report noted that the Uniform Code of Military Justice barred “maltreatment” but said, “Legal doctrine could render specific conduct, otherwise criminal, not unlawful.” In an echo of the Torture Memo, it also declared that interrogators could be found guilty of torture only if their “specific intent” was to inflict “severe physical pain or suffering” as evidenced by “prolonged mental harm.” Even then, it said, echoing Yoo, the Commander-in-Chief could order torture if it was a military necessity: “Congress may no more regulate the President’s ability to detain and interrogate enemy combatants than it may regulate his ability to direct troop movements on the battlefield.”
[Discussion about 09/11/2001] [september_eleven_vreeland] Digest Number 1288: Digest Number 1288 There are 10 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Fw: It's ALL TRUE! Islam Provoked to Fight too Soon (Like Japan) From: "norgesen"<norgeson@hotmail.com> 2. A Dying Breed: Feeble Minded Fools and Dim-Witted Debunkers From: "norgesen"<norgeson@hotmail.com> 3.
[Independent World Report] Moustafa Bayoumi: Disco Inferno: Theyreport that Iraqis repeatedly describe the same kinds of abuse--beinghooded and handcuffed, sealed in containers, doused with cold water,subjected to strobe lights and blasted with brutally loud music. Andaccording to the Fay report, one of the government's many investigationsof the Abu Ghraib scandal, sleep adjustment was brought to Iraq with the519 Military Intelligence Battalion from Afghanistan.
[Freedom and democracy are dying.] The Post 9/11 Saturation Of Our Culture In... : Our culture is now saturated with the torture agenda, it is everywhere and it is dangerously sinking into reality. Scott McClellan tells us that the Bush administration is unequivocally against torture under any circumstances and yet it is Bush and his handler Dick Cheney, the Vice President for torture, publicly blocking the legislation that would outlaw torture.
[The Desert Tusk] Rainy Days: The Desert Tusk BlogThis! The Desert Tusk "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." -Oscar Wilde Tuesday, October 26, 2004 NBC: Weapons Missing When U.S. Arrived John Kerry, the New York Times, ABC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC have been all over the missing
[Newsdissector.org] News Dissector Blog » 2005 » March » 29: "Amid the presidential campaign's furious debate over Iraq, ."Visitors to AEGIS.org will be able to search twenty-four years of AIDS stories, .
[Laughatliberals.com] Laugh At Liberals Web Blog » KerryOnIraq.com Documentary Video: It’s clear the GOP can’t argue against Kerry’s actual position on Iraq, so they resort to lying about it.
[Tomdispatch.com] TomDispatch - Water-boarding in the White House: Its officials were fixated on the subject, which went so naturally with the President's new-style, no-holds-barred, we're-the-only-law-in-town, dead-or-alive, assassination-and-kidnapping "war on terrorism." It's no longer a matter of whether knowledge of the acts committed at Abu Ghraib prison reach the President and his advisors, but of what can only be termed a complete obsession with the subject of torture among those figures. The highest officials at the Pentagon, in the military, in the CIA, and at the Justice Department clearly couldn't stop thinking about torture -- as over the course of more than a year they requested legal memorandum after memorandum, all chewing over how to define torture so that various inhumane acts involving the infliction of mental and physical pain would not be considered such;
[Warincontext.org] THE WAR IN CONTEXT:: Iraq, the War on Terrorism, and the Middle ...: Although the Washington Post's Robin Wright reports that the administration's aim is to "unravel the regime in Syria but not oust the government of President Bashar Assad," Joshua Landis in Damascus says that he has it on good authority that National Security Advisor, Steven Hadley, "called the President of the Italian senate to ask if he had a candidate to replace Bashar al-Asad as President of Syria. The Italians were horrified.
[Potentpew.com] The Potent Pew: If any thing big freight twenty four wheeler drivers are on methamphetamine, while they drive bad rigs that need sever mechanical work. The guy with the one or two joints is the list dangerous driver on the road in comparison to the truck driver, the drunk, the old person who because of many daily drugs loses their reflex more than pot smoker drivers.
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