Bush's Torture Program: Were Democrats Complicit?
pubrecord.org — One day after the Obama administration released four gruesome Bush-era torture memos, a majority of Democrats have remained collectively silent on whether the disclosures warrant a full-scale criminal investigation. That begs the question: were Democrats aware of the torture program and are simply remaining silent because they approved it? (Submitted by jleopold) More...
Yoo Admits He Fixed Law Around Bush's Torture Policy
pubrecord.org — Former Justice Department Attorney John Yoo suggested in no uncertain terms that Bush administration officials sought to legalize torture and that he and his former boss, Jay Bybee, fixed the law around the Bush administration’s policy. (Submitted by jleopold) More...
Top CIA, Bush Officials Were Given Daily Torture Updates
pubrecord.org — CIA interrogators provided top agency and Bush administration officials with daily "torture" updates of Abu Zubaydah, the alleged “high-level” terrorist detainee who was held at a secret “black site” prison and waterboarded 83 times in August 2002, according to newly released court documents. (Submitted by jleopold) More...
Spanish Judge Allows 'Bush Six' Torture Case to Remain Open
pubrecord.org — Spain's attorney general, Candido Conde-Pumpido, recommended that the judge, Baltasar Garzón, should dismiss a complaint, brought by human rights lawyers, against six Bush administration lawyers who sanctioned torture. But on Friday, the judge resisted pressure and said he will allow the case to proceed. (Submitted by jleopold) More...
Senate Report Links Prisoner Deaths to Bush's Torture Policy
pubrecord.org — The Senate Armed Service Committee report released last week officially concluded that the murder of two prisoners held at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan in December 2002 were a direct result of the Bush administration’s “advanced interrogation” policies. In other words, the prisoners were tortured to death. (Submitted by jleopold) More...
Levin to Release Full Declassifed Report On Detainee Torture
pubrecord.org — The full declassified version of a Senate Armed Services Committee report on the treatment of detainees, set for release as early as next week, is 200 pages, contains 2,000 footnotes, and will reveal a plethora of new information about the roles played by senior Bush administration officials in adopting a policy of torture. (Submitted by jleopold) More...
How Torture Became Admin. Policy During Bush's 2nd Term
pubrecord.org — In 2005, after pushing out the Justice Department lawyer who had overturned President George W. Bush’s claimed authority to abuse “war on terror” prisoners, his administration reinstated key elements of the memos granting Bush virtually unlimited powers over the detainees, according to a list of still-secret documents. (Submitted by jleopold) More...
Dems Won't Renew Calls Made in 08 For Criminal Probe of Bush
pubrecord.org — Last June, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers and 55 other congressional Democrats signed a letter to then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey demanding a special prosecutor to investigate the growing body of evidence that Bush administration officials had sanctioned torture. (Submitted by jleopold) More...
The Bush Administration's Most Despicable Act
time.com — The details of the torture that Bush authorized have been dribbling out over the years in books like Jane Mayer's excellent The Dark Side. But the most definitive official account was released by the Senate Armed Services Committee just before Christmas... (Submitted by MrBabyMan) More...
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