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Brennan refuses to say whether waterboarding is torture
At his confirmation hearing on Thursday, President Barack Obama’s nominee for CIA director refused to state whether or not waterboarding was a form of torture. When pressed by Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, John Brennan said the simulated drowning technique should be banned. However, he repeatedly declined to label…
Fox News guest slams ‘Zero Dark Thirty’: ‘Waterboarding is not torture’
Making a prisoner believe they’re drowning to death is not a form of torture, according to a guest on Wednesday morning’s broadcast of “Fox & Friends.” “Waterboarding is not torture,” former CIA operative Wayne Simmons said, critiquing the new film “Zero Dark Thirty.” “It is simply a technique used to…
Montana man arrested for allegedly waterboarding children
Montana police arrested a man on Tuesday for allegedly waterboarding four children, including two of his own, as well as making threats to “take care of everything and everyone” at a local school and for attacking his girlfriend. The Daily Missoulian reported on Friday. William Albert Province was charged with…
UN to investigate civilian deaths from U.S. drone strikes
Special rapporteur on counter-terror operations condemns Barack Obama’s failure to establish effective monitoring process The United Nations is to set up a dedicated investigations unit in Geneva to examine the legality of drone attacks in cases where civilians are killed in so-called ‘targeted’ counter-terrorism operations. The announcement was made by…
Democratic Congressman Nadler: ‘Shameful’ ‘dereliction of duty’ not to prosecute Bush
Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) told MSNBC’s Ed Schultz that United States Attorney General Eric Holder should launch an investigation into former President Bush’s authorization of waterboarding. In his new memoir, titled Decision Points, Bush admits he personally authorized waterboarding to be used on CIA detainees. Waterboarding is an interrogation technique…
Bush: Waterboarding legal ‘because the lawyer said it was’
Is waterboarding torture, as the UN Convention Against Torture asserts? Or is it not torture, but just punishable by death? (Sen. John McCain pointed out during his presidential campaign that the US hanged several Japanese men after they were convicted of waterboarding American soldiers during World War II). Or is…
Study: US media redefined torture after US started practicing it
The US news media radically changed how it reported on the issue of waterboarding after it emerged that US forces had used the practice, says a new study from Harvard University. The study also found a double standard when defining waterboarding, with news sources commonly referring to waterboarding as “torture”…
Fox News allows John Yoo to make excuses for torture
When you’re a former Bush administration official whose public personage has been tainted by legal memos authorizing torture, but an internal investigation recently cleared you of everything but “poor judgment” — where do you go to tell your side of the story to the public? Fox News, of course. And…
Cheney: Waterboarding should have been an option for underbomber
Former VP says ‘I was a big supporter’ of waterboarding, other torture techniques Waterboarding should have been an option for the failed Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, former Vice President Dick Cheney says. “I think you ought to have all of those capabilities on the table,” Cheney told ABC’s…
Massachusetts could elect senator who supports waterboarding
The Republican state senator vying to fill the Senate seat recently vacated by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) says he doesn’t believe waterboarding — where a suspect is effectively temporarily drowned — is torture. State senator Scott Brown’s candidacy has taken Massachusetts by storm and political analysts by surprise.…
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