On AlterNet: torture memos
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "torture memos"
Byard Duncan, AlterNet. July 14, 2009.
Demand accountability and help topple ugly Bush precedents.
Diana Gibson, Ray McGovern, San Jose Mercury News. June 24, 2009.
Meanwhile, a recent Pew survey shows that a majority of Americans who go to church regularly believe torture can be justified.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. June 9, 2009.
Cheney loves torturing terrorists. Roeder's a terrorist. Hmmm...
Noam Chomsky, Tomdispatch.com. May 20, 2009.
Historical amnesia is a dangerous social phenomenon because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. May 11, 2009.
Waterboarding neither "efficacious or medically safe."
David Murdock, American News Project AlterNet: Video. April 29, 2009.
How did Jay Bybee breeze through a confirmation hearing for his appointment to the Federal Appeals Court in February 2003?
Scott Horton, The Daily Beast. April 28, 2009.
Obama insists America must "look forward" on the question of torture and accountability, but we're far from closure.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. April 26, 2009.
If the torture of the first "high-value detainee" was authorized by the Bybee memos, who ordered his torture 18 weeks before they were written?
Sheri Fink, ProPublica. April 25, 2009.
Perhaps the most chilling aspect is that medical professionals apparently conducted a form of research on the detainees, without their consent.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 24, 2009.
Amid citizen outrage and news that torture was used to extract a link between Iraq and al Qaeda, Eric Holder won't say if he intends to prosecute.
David Swanson, After Downing Street. April 21, 2009.
A push for accountability is a deterrent to future crimes, even if it fails. But remember: they won't tell us we're succeeding until we already have.
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. April 20, 2009.
So much for the United States being "a nation of laws."
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: PEEK. April 20, 2009.
While Democratic leaders stay silent on Obama's refusal to hold torturers accountable, activists call on Congress to impeach.
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. April 17, 2009.
Obama's statement was carefully worded to include only "those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice."
dday, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. April 17, 2009.
All the people squealing about the release of the torture memos and defending torture harm national security with each passing moment.
Jeffrey S. Kaye, AlterNet. April 17, 2009.
The memo's gross distortion of psychological research makes it hard to imagine they were used in "good faith" as the Obama administration says.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 17, 2009.
Slamming prisoners into walls, locking them in boxes with insects; these memos are the smoking gun for the sadistic crimes of the Bush administration.
The American Civil Liberties Union AlterNet: Rights and LibertiesApril 16, 2009.
"The documents (are) further confirmation that the Office of Legal Counsel distorted the law to support the Bush administration's torture."
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. April 16, 2009.
AG Eric Holder: "It would be unfair to prosecute dedicated men and women working to protect America for conduct that was sanctioned ... by DOJ."
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 16, 2009.
On Wednesday, two officials reportedly said the White House plans to "propose redacting parts of the memos."
John Sifton, The Daily Beast. April 13, 2009.
Leon Panetta's attempt to suppress the issue of CIA torture is turning Bush's policy into the Obama administration's dirty laundry.
Scott Horton, The Daily Beast. April 9, 2009.
If the president releases more Bush torture memos, Republicans are promising to "go nuclear" and filibuster his legal appointments.
Jason Leopold, TruthOut.org. March 12, 2009.
ACLU: "This new information underscores the need for full and immediate disclosure of the CIA's illegal interrogation methods."
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 9, 2009.
Obama's DOJ lawyers are trying to get a judge to toss out a lawsuit by the so-called "enemy combatant," who was tortured under Bush.
Chisun Lee, ProPublica. January 30, 2009.
An interactive guide to the Bush administration's classified legal opinions in the 'War on Terror' reveals how much we still don't know.
