Shamnesty International
June 3, 2005, by Melana Zyla Vickers
The torture and abuse of terrorist suspects is very much in the news these days, so it's interesting to note the advice on the topic found in an Al Qaeda training manual seized some time ago in the U.K. The manual says that when captured or facing trial, "brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by State Security." Noting the utility of the open U.S. media, the manual also calls "spreading rumors and writing statements that instigate people against the enemy" one of the top-five missions of the terrorist organization.
This is not to say that torture and abuse at the hands of American troops is always a figment of Al Qaeda propaganda: The Abu Ghraib prison scandal proves otherwise. But the manual sure puts Amnesty International's newest annual report, as well as recent claims of torture, Koran desecration, and other abuse, in perspective.
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North Korean Defector Shows What Real Torture Looks Like
May 13, 2009 by Gateway Pundit
While Democrats get their panties all tied up in a knot over splashing water on the faces of 3 Al-Qaeda killers...
Here's a little reminder of what real torture looks like:
North Korean defector Bang Mi-sun shows her torture scars at a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
politics, news, torture, war, terrorism
May 13, 2009 by Gateway Pundit
While Democrats get their panties all tied up in a knot over splashing water on the faces of 3 Al-Qaeda killers...
Here's a little reminder of what real torture looks like:
North Korean defector Bang Mi-sun shows her torture scars at a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
politics, news, torture, war, terrorism
Oh, the Irony... After Hiding Khalidi Tape Before Election- LA Times Demands That Obama Release Torture Photos!
May 19, 2009 by Gateway Pundit
The LA Times demanded this week that President Obama release the detainee torture photos: Release the torture photos
The Times insisted, "The truth must out."
Of course, this is the same outfit that hid a video of Barack Obama attending a Jew-bash and toasting a former PLO operative Rashid Khalidi before the election.
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May 19, 2009 by Gateway Pundit
The LA Times demanded this week that President Obama release the detainee torture photos: Release the torture photos
The Times insisted, "The truth must out."
Of course, this is the same outfit that hid a video of Barack Obama attending a Jew-bash and toasting a former PLO operative Rashid Khalidi before the election.
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Joy Behar: America Never Tortured, Until the Bush Administration
April 23, 2009, by Tim Graham
The View has a lot of ignorant and idiot pundits on the show.
ABC’s The View featured the liberal media’s favorite Republican, Meghan McCain, as a fill-in host for Elizabeth Hasselbeck on Thursday, with an emphasis on how the 2008 GOP nominee’s daughter would repeat all her criticisms of "creepy" Karl Rove. They also had a discussion about U.S. government and torture. Joy Behar asserted torture first originated under George W. Bush:
politics, propaganda, pandering, false, war, terrorism, torture, liberalism, left wing
April 23, 2009, by Tim Graham
The View has a lot of ignorant and idiot pundits on the show.
ABC’s The View featured the liberal media’s favorite Republican, Meghan McCain, as a fill-in host for Elizabeth Hasselbeck on Thursday, with an emphasis on how the 2008 GOP nominee’s daughter would repeat all her criticisms of "creepy" Karl Rove. They also had a discussion about U.S. government and torture. Joy Behar asserted torture first originated under George W. Bush:
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Holder Tongue-Tied Over Waterboarding
May 20, 2009 by Sean Hannity
Attorney General Eric Holder has made no secret that he thinks waterboarding is torture. The National Review's Andy McCarthy pointed out that Holder took a beating at the hands of Republican Congressmen Dan Lungren and Louie Gohmert. The two men asked the attorney general why he thinks waterboarding is torture, given that we use the technique to train our own soldiers:
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May 20, 2009 by Sean Hannity
Attorney General Eric Holder has made no secret that he thinks waterboarding is torture. The National Review's Andy McCarthy pointed out that Holder took a beating at the hands of Republican Congressmen Dan Lungren and Louie Gohmert. The two men asked the attorney general why he thinks waterboarding is torture, given that we use the technique to train our own soldiers:
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ABC's Terry Moran Draws Comparison Between Middle East Torture and U.S.
April 23, 2009, by Scott Whitlock
"Nightline" co-host Terry Moran on Wednesday committed an act of snide and unnecessary moral equivalence, connecting video of torture occurring in the Middle East and the political debate over how to handle enemy combatants captured by the U.S.
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April 23, 2009, by Scott Whitlock
"Nightline" co-host Terry Moran on Wednesday committed an act of snide and unnecessary moral equivalence, connecting video of torture occurring in the Middle East and the political debate over how to handle enemy combatants captured by the U.S.
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Poll: US divided over torture, closing Guantanamo
June 4, 2009 by LIZ SIDOTI
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just over half of Americans say torture is justified in some cases to thwart terrorist attacks, and the country is evenly divided over whether to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, according to a poll that underscores President Barack Obama's challenges in selling his terror-fighting policies.
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June 4, 2009 by LIZ SIDOTI
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just over half of Americans say torture is justified in some cases to thwart terrorist attacks, and the country is evenly divided over whether to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, according to a poll that underscores President Barack Obama's challenges in selling his terror-fighting policies.
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Freed Guantanamo detainee says U.S. behind his torture
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After reading the whole story one might wonder why Luke Baker and Tim Pearce included the U.S. in the title.
February 23, 2009, by Luke Baker and Tim Pearce
Binyam Mohamed, a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years, was released and put on a plane to Britain on Monday and accused the U.S. government of orchestrating his torture.
In his statement, he accused the British government of colluding with foreign governments during his abuse and torture.
"For myself, the very worst moment came when I realized in Morocco that the people who were torturing me were receiving questions and materials from British intelligence," he said.
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After reading the whole story one might wonder why Luke Baker and Tim Pearce included the U.S. in the title.
February 23, 2009, by Luke Baker and Tim Pearce
Binyam Mohamed, a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years, was released and put on a plane to Britain on Monday and accused the U.S. government of orchestrating his torture.
In his statement, he accused the British government of colluding with foreign governments during his abuse and torture.
"For myself, the very worst moment came when I realized in Morocco that the people who were torturing me were receiving questions and materials from British intelligence," he said.
MAUREEN DOWD: still out of touch
May 19, 2009 by Original America
Maureen Dowd has done many obtuse things. But bloviating over torture in defense of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is just the most recent.
bias, Democrats, left wing, liberalism, news media, pandering, politics, propaganda, terrorism, torture
May 19, 2009 by Original America
Maureen Dowd has done many obtuse things. But bloviating over torture in defense of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is just the most recent.
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Dem Majority Leader Wants Pelosi Investigated
May 12, 2009, by Gateway Pundit
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer agreed that the Congressional Hearings looking into "torture" of 3 Al-Qaeda terrorists during the Bush years should include an investigation of Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi was recently caught lying about what she was told about waterboarding.
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May 12, 2009, by Gateway Pundit
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer agreed that the Congressional Hearings looking into "torture" of 3 Al-Qaeda terrorists during the Bush years should include an investigation of Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi was recently caught lying about what she was told about waterboarding.
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ABC and NBC Resist Vindicating Cheney, But Hayes Finds Proof EIT's 'Effective'
August 25, 2009 by Brent Baker
ABC's Brian Ross and NBC's Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday night each listed some al Qaeda plots uncovered via CIA interrogations, but both balked when it came to vindicating former Vice President Dick Cheney on whether “enhanced interrogation techniques” (EITs) led to information which prevented attacks.
“Nowhere in the reports...does the CIA ever draw a direct connection between the valuable information and the specific use of harsh tactics,” Ross declared on World News in citing reports Cheney requested be released. NBC's Andrea Mitchell cited only Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and related how “administration officials say there is no way to know whether the same information could have be obtained from him without waterboarding or whether he would have given it up sooner had he been handled differently.”
On FNC, however, The Weekly Standard's Steve Hayes, quoting from the just-released 2004 report by CIA Inspector General John Helgerson, pointed out how even it noted regarding Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, the terrorist behind the USS Cole attack, “following the use of EIT's, he provided information about his most current operational planning as opposed to the historical information he provided before the use of the EIT's.” Hayes asserted: “I mean, it doesn't get clearer than that. So we can debate the morality, we can debate whether this was torture. We can't debate any longer about whether this was effective.”
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August 25, 2009 by Brent Baker
ABC's Brian Ross and NBC's Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday night each listed some al Qaeda plots uncovered via CIA interrogations, but both balked when it came to vindicating former Vice President Dick Cheney on whether “enhanced interrogation techniques” (EITs) led to information which prevented attacks.
“Nowhere in the reports...does the CIA ever draw a direct connection between the valuable information and the specific use of harsh tactics,” Ross declared on World News in citing reports Cheney requested be released. NBC's Andrea Mitchell cited only Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and related how “administration officials say there is no way to know whether the same information could have be obtained from him without waterboarding or whether he would have given it up sooner had he been handled differently.”
On FNC, however, The Weekly Standard's Steve Hayes, quoting from the just-released 2004 report by CIA Inspector General John Helgerson, pointed out how even it noted regarding Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, the terrorist behind the USS Cole attack, “following the use of EIT's, he provided information about his most current operational planning as opposed to the historical information he provided before the use of the EIT's.” Hayes asserted: “I mean, it doesn't get clearer than that. So we can debate the morality, we can debate whether this was torture. We can't debate any longer about whether this was effective.”
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40 Hill briefings on interrogations disclosed
May 07, 2009 by Josh Gerstein
An intelligence report sent recently to Capitol Hill shows that members of Congress were briefed 40 times since 2002 on aspects of the so-called "enhanced interrogation" program. Many have decried the techniques used in the program as torture.
The list seems to undercut the claim by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), then-minority leader and ranking member on the House intelligence committee, that she was never told at a 2002 briefing that waterboarding and other aggressive techniques had been used or would be used, only that legal opinions approving of their use had been issued.
politics, war, terrorism, news, torture, scandal, Democrats, lies
May 07, 2009 by Josh Gerstein
An intelligence report sent recently to Capitol Hill shows that members of Congress were briefed 40 times since 2002 on aspects of the so-called "enhanced interrogation" program. Many have decried the techniques used in the program as torture.
The list seems to undercut the claim by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), then-minority leader and ranking member on the House intelligence committee, that she was never told at a 2002 briefing that waterboarding and other aggressive techniques had been used or would be used, only that legal opinions approving of their use had been issued.
politics, war, terrorism, news, torture, scandal, Democrats, lies
Torture: Pelosi's Lewinsky
April 24, 2009, by Bob Parks
I think many of us remember what happened after President Clinton wagged his finger at the American people, telling us he had been truthful regarding a certain issue. Now Nancy Pelosi is telling us something she expects us to believe, simply because she's Nancy Pelosi.
politics, pandering, propaganda, scandal, torture, war, terrorism, foreign affairs, Democrats, left wing
April 24, 2009, by Bob Parks
I think many of us remember what happened after President Clinton wagged his finger at the American people, telling us he had been truthful regarding a certain issue. Now Nancy Pelosi is telling us something she expects us to believe, simply because she's Nancy Pelosi.
Nancy Pelosi denies knowing U.S. officials used waterboarding — but GOP operatives are pointing to a 2007 Washington Post story which describes an hour-long 2002 briefing in which Pelosi was told about enhanced interrogation techniques in graphic detail.
politics, pandering, propaganda, scandal, torture, war, terrorism, foreign affairs, Democrats, left wing
Poll: Most oppose closing Gitmo
June 1, 2009 by Susan Page
WASHINGTON — Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to closing the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and moving some of the detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.
By more than 2-1, those surveyed say Guantanamo shouldn't be closed. By more than 3-1, they oppose moving some of the accused terrorists housed there to prisons in their own states.
The AP has different results on the same issue
Poll: US divided over torture, closing Guantanamo
June 3, 2009 by LIZ SIDOTI
WASHINGTON – Just over half of Americans say torture is at least sometimes justified to thwart terrorist attacks and the country is evenly divided over whether to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, according to a poll that underscores President Barack Obama's challenges in selling his terror-fighting policies.
Even so, the latest Associated Press-GfK survey also shows that Obama enjoys broad confidence that he can effectively handle terrorism in an era when many people say they still fear becoming a victim and when a swath of the public shares the views of Obama's Republican predecessor, George W. Bush.
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June 1, 2009 by Susan Page
WASHINGTON — Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to closing the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and moving some of the detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.
By more than 2-1, those surveyed say Guantanamo shouldn't be closed. By more than 3-1, they oppose moving some of the accused terrorists housed there to prisons in their own states.
The AP has different results on the same issue
Poll: US divided over torture, closing Guantanamo
June 3, 2009 by LIZ SIDOTI
WASHINGTON – Just over half of Americans say torture is at least sometimes justified to thwart terrorist attacks and the country is evenly divided over whether to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, according to a poll that underscores President Barack Obama's challenges in selling his terror-fighting policies.
Even so, the latest Associated Press-GfK survey also shows that Obama enjoys broad confidence that he can effectively handle terrorism in an era when many people say they still fear becoming a victim and when a swath of the public shares the views of Obama's Republican predecessor, George W. Bush.
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Matthews Bellows: Is GOP 'The Party of Tax Cuts and Torture?'
April 21, 2009, by Geoffrey Dickens
The Dick Cheney-obsessed Chris Matthews opened Tuesday's "Hardball," by taking umbrage with the former Vice President's criticism of Obama declassifying CIA interrogation memos, as the MSNBC host compared Cheney to "The Empire," in Star Wars and called him "The Bush administration's tail gunner, manning his burp gun with that same nasty look we recall from the war comics." Matthews went on to wonder if Cheney's outspokenness was a good thing for the GOP as he questioned, "If the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture?"
politics, news media, bias, left wing, liberalism, propaganda
April 21, 2009, by Geoffrey Dickens
The Dick Cheney-obsessed Chris Matthews opened Tuesday's "Hardball," by taking umbrage with the former Vice President's criticism of Obama declassifying CIA interrogation memos, as the MSNBC host compared Cheney to "The Empire," in Star Wars and called him "The Bush administration's tail gunner, manning his burp gun with that same nasty look we recall from the war comics." Matthews went on to wonder if Cheney's outspokenness was a good thing for the GOP as he questioned, "If the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture?"
politics, news media, bias, left wing, liberalism, propaganda
CNN's Iraqi Cover-Up
politics, news media, bias, war, scandal, abuse, terrorism, news, fraud, left wing, propaganda
April 15, 2003
CNN admits that knowledge of murder, torture, and planned assassinations were suppressed in order to maintain CNN's Baghdad bureau.
In a shocking New York Times opinion piece, CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan has admitted that for the past decade the network has systematically covered up stories of Iraqi atrocities. Reports of murder, torture, and planned assassinations were suppressed in order to maintain CNN's Baghdad bureau.
The News We Kept To Ourselves
April 11, 2003, by EASON JORDAN
politics, news media, bias, war, scandal, abuse, terrorism, news, fraud, left wing, propaganda
April 15, 2003
CNN admits that knowledge of murder, torture, and planned assassinations were suppressed in order to maintain CNN's Baghdad bureau.
In a shocking New York Times opinion piece, CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan has admitted that for the past decade the network has systematically covered up stories of Iraqi atrocities. Reports of murder, torture, and planned assassinations were suppressed in order to maintain CNN's Baghdad bureau.
The News We Kept To Ourselves
April 11, 2003, by EASON JORDAN
Chuck Schumer On "Torture" - "Do What You Have To Do"
During a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 8th, 2004, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) discusses harsh interrogation methods, saying to Attorney General John Ashcroft:
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During a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 8th, 2004, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) discusses harsh interrogation methods, saying to Attorney General John Ashcroft:
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Did the Times bury its story on interrogations' effectiveness?
April 22, 2009 by Byron York
Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says
April 21, 2009 by PETER BAKER
And here's a news story trying to reinforce the left wing narrative that any and everything the Bush administration did was bad.
A Top Interrogator Who's Against Torture
April 24, 2009 by Bobby Ghosh
politics, news media, bias, war, terrorism, foreign affairs, torture
April 22, 2009 by Byron York
Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says
April 21, 2009 by PETER BAKER
And here's a news story trying to reinforce the left wing narrative that any and everything the Bush administration did was bad.
A Top Interrogator Who's Against Torture
April 24, 2009 by Bobby Ghosh
politics, news media, bias, war, terrorism, foreign affairs, torture
French prosecutors throw out Rumsfeld torture case
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The Paris prosecutors' office has dismissed a suit against Donald Rumsfeld accusing the former U.S. defense secretary of torture, human rights groups who brought the case said on Friday.
The plaintiffs, who included the French-based International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) and the U.S. Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), said Rumsfeld had authorized interrogation techniques that led to rights abuses.
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The Paris prosecutors' office has dismissed a suit against Donald Rumsfeld accusing the former U.S. defense secretary of torture, human rights groups who brought the case said on Friday.
The plaintiffs, who included the French-based International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) and the U.S. Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), said Rumsfeld had authorized interrogation techniques that led to rights abuses.
Ex-detainees allege abuse at US Afghan base: BBC
June 24, 2009 by AFP
I hope there is more to these accusations than simply being treated rudely.
Former detainees of the Bagram air base in Afghanistan have alleged a catalogue of abuse at the US military facility, the BBC reported Wednesday, after a two-month investigation.
Human Rights Watch meanwhile called on the United States to investigate the death, apparently at a US air base, and alleged torture of a member of an Afghan armed faction last year.
BBC said ex-inmates of Bagram listed mistreatment including beatings, sleep deprivation and being threatened with dogs at the base north of Kabul.
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June 24, 2009 by AFP
I hope there is more to these accusations than simply being treated rudely.
Former detainees of the Bagram air base in Afghanistan have alleged a catalogue of abuse at the US military facility, the BBC reported Wednesday, after a two-month investigation.
Human Rights Watch meanwhile called on the United States to investigate the death, apparently at a US air base, and alleged torture of a member of an Afghan armed faction last year.
BBC said ex-inmates of Bagram listed mistreatment including beatings, sleep deprivation and being threatened with dogs at the base north of Kabul.
war, terrorism, torture, news, foreign affairs
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