All posts tagged "Waterboarding"

As you may have heard, the woman who was once potentially  a myocardial infarction away from the Big Red Doomsday Button appeared at the NRA's rootin tootin' let's go shootin' national convention this past weekend in America's ugliest city, Indianapolis. Griftin' grandma Sarah Palin wowed the crowd with the kind of well-articulated theories of governance you might expect to hear in a VFW parking lot an hour after the bar closed.

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.

Is waterboarding torture, as the UN Convention Against Torture asserts?

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.

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?

Former VP says 'I was a big supporter' of waterboarding, other torture techniques