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POPSHannity to Mancow: "It's still not torture." “I would have said anything to make it stop,” Mancow said. “I don’t think drowning is harsh enough. … This is worse. This isn’t gulping for air. This is your brain is shut off.” “I felt the effects for two days. I had chest pains. I told my wife — I have two little kids. We prayed. I said, dear God, help me. I had chest pains. I was so stressed out by this,”
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POPSSet a new framework for the torture debate For apparently people were being tortured after the invasion of Iraq to coerce stories of an Al Qaeda involvement there before the invasion, for the purpose - not of intelligence - but of exonerating the Bush Administration.
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POPS"Stinging rebuke" of torture lawyers Justice Dept report concludes serious lapses of judgment; May ask state bar associations to consider disciplinary actions, including possible disbarment; but prosecution won't be recommended.
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POPSBush vow, 2003: US will prosecute torture, cruelty In a proclamation on UN day supporting victims of torture, Bush vowed to prosecute any such acts. The CIA called the White House to complain, having been authorized by Bush to do what he was publicly promising to prosecute.
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POPSBruce Fein: Investigate or Pardon Torture Orderers But Mr President, you have no authority to simply ignore a former Vice President talking publicly about committing a crime. This ISN'T "behind us." Cheney is making sure of it, and when we have another attack, he'll blame Obama for failing to torture unless torture is demonstrably criminal act. Failing to act leaves the question unresolved. And Congressional big shots of both parties may be implicated.
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POPS"Top 25 Five Censored News Stories" # # 22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid # # 23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs # # 24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror # # 25 Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer
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POPSUN Rapporteur: Not prosecuting torturers is illegal ...in an interview with the Austrian newspaper Der Standard, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Professor Manfred Nowak, explained that Obama’s grant of immunity is likely a violation of international law. As a party to the UN Convention Against Torture, the U.S. is obligated to investigate and prosecute U.S. citizens that are believed to have engaged in torture:
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POPSAsk for accountability on torture Congress failed to hold the last President accountable to the law. Now this President may let it slide. Follow this link to contact your Senator and Representative, insisting that no one harms others without accountability.
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POPSObama grants rendition permission to CIA UPDATE - NOT EXTRAORDINARY RENDTION PROGRAM: see Dulios comment, below, including: The extraordinary renditions program involved the operation of long-term detention facilities either by the CIA or by a cooperating host government together with the CIA, in which prisoners were held outside of the criminal justice system and otherwise unaccountable under law for extended periods of time. The earlier renditions program regularly involved snatching and removing targets for purposes of bringing them to justice by delivering them to a criminal justice system. It did not involve the operation of long-term detention facilities and it did not involve torture.
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POPSUN torture officer: US must prosecute Bush, Rumsfeld "the United States has a clear obligation” to bring proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld. He noted Washington had ratified the UN convention on torture which required “all means, particularly penal law” to be used to bring proceedings against those violating it."
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POPSUS legally obliged to prosecute torture authorization Top Gitmo authority admits torture occurred in public statement; USA is obliged as a party to the UN Convention Against Torture: "Anyone who has authorized, committed, is complicit or participated in torture must be brought to justice"
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POPSBush: Delusional to the end "if there was any value in the speech it was this: it should remind us of the importance of refusing to allow this delusional revisionism to stand."
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