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When Did Torture Become Part of the American Way?

Posted by ZP Heller, Amnesty International at 8:18 AM on December 4, 2008.


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Amnesty International USA just launched its Protect the Human campaign to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  They've got a fantastic site up where you can view Amnesty's films and photos, learn about human rights issues, read up on the UDHR, tell your story using an interactive Google map, and take action on these issues.

Check out the Protect the Human campaign now, and then sign Brave New Films' open letter calling on President-elect Obama to close Gitmo and ban unconstitutional military commissions

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ZP Heller is the editorial director of Brave New Films. He has written for The American Prospect, AlterNet, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Huffington Post, covering everything from politics to pop culture.


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Former Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, a former U.S. prosecutor at Guantanamo
Posted by: Lauren on Dec 4, 2008 10:09 AM   
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Former Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, a former U.S. prosecutor at Guantanamo, told BBC yesterday in his first interview since resigning earlier this year that Guantanamo detainees were treated in a “wrong, unethical and finally, immoral” manner. Vandeveld was so “appalled” by the conditions at Guantanamo that he consulted his Jesuit priest, who told him to resign. “I never suffered such anguish in my life about anything,” he said.

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I don't know when torture became part of the American way. I only know when it can STOP being part of the American way and that will be none too soon, IMO.

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"I would do the same thing over again because I don’t think I hurt Valerie Plame whatsoever."
Posted by: Lauren on Dec 4, 2008 10:21 AM   
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Robert Novak was asked if he would reveal Valerie Plame Wilson’s secret CIA identity if he could go back and do it all over again.

"I would do the same thing over again because I don’t think I hurt Valerie Plame whatsoever."

Wow, I mean just wow. I can't stand this guy so it is like Christmas to hear if given the chance he would commit treason all over again. Well he says his family likes him. I guess we have to take him at his word...

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This is not new
Posted by: fanny666 on Dec 4, 2008 11:58 AM   
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I appreciate that Bush has managed to bring the torture issue into the mainstream, but his is not the first administration to authorize or utilize torture, at all. He just did it brazenly.

The "Interrogation Methods Manual" known as the KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation guide from 1963 was declassified during the CLinton years. This is not a new issue.

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