Firedoglake’s Emptywheel have constructed a timeline of torture under the Bush Administration based on the newly released CIA memos.
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Torture timeline and Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
According to the Emptywheel’s Torture Timeline, the DIA were getting false information from torture at the same time as they were devising their plan to torture Abu Zubaydah.
I waterboard: one man experiments on himself
A Straight Dope reader tries out waterboarding on himself (or so he claims). The verdict? “I would have sold my children to escape.”
We’re all torturers now
The US has become so casual about torture that we now openly debate its efficacy — something nobody would have dared do in the first days after Abu Ghraib, writes Dahlia Lithwick.
The banality of Bush White House evil
Five years after the Abu Ghraib revelations, we must acknowledge that the US government methodically authorised torture and lied about it, writes Frank Rich.
Military agency warned against torture in 2002
A US military agency warned the Bush administration in 2002 that harsh interrogation tactics could yield “unreliable information”. Looks like they didn’t listen.
Justice looms for the torture team
The chance of an American president allowing the domestic prosecution of his predecessors for war crimes is essentially zero. American politics just doesn’t work that way.
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Fox News fights torture with F-bomb
An impassioned argument against torture from Fox News’ Shepard Smith. (Warning: extreme language)
Cheney hints waterboarding prevented terrorist attack
Dick Cheney has intimated that waterboarding prevented a terrorist attack on LA. Should he be prosecuted?
I interrogated Zubaydah: we didn’t need to use torture
A former FBI agent claims waterboarding wasn’t necessary to uncover any intelligence from Abu Zubaydah — they had it all before the torture even started.
Huffington: How we respond to torture will define us
How the US responds to the revelations about the Bush administration’s use of torture will define the country, writes Arianna Huffington.
Thiessen: Torture made us safer
The interrogation tactics used on terrorism suspects made the US safer, writes a former Bush staffer.
SSCI torture narrative
The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released a narrative of the general history of torture under the Bush Administration.
The Daily Show: We don’t torture
No-one is upset about the fact that America tortures, they’re just upset that they now know about it.
The story behind the torture memos
The circumstances in which the US torture memos were prepared and the process that led to their release may prove even more significant than their actual content.
In the wake of war crimes
The blogosphere reacts to President’s Obama release of the Bush torture memos.
Guantanamo: be the evil you want to see defeated
Mahatma Gandhi once said: “Be the change you want to see”. But in George W Bush’s so-called “war on terror”, the extreme opposite applied, writes Irfan Yusuf.
The Humpty Dumpty gang should take their great fall over Guantanamo
Throughout the Bush years, politicians and the media, both in Australia and abroad, have been prepared to play brazen Alice in Wonderland games with definitions, writes Jeff Sparrow
Hitchens’ tortured pursuit of the truth
Christopher Hitchens undergoes waterboarding for the sake of journalism … and declares it torture.
Where’s the outrage for the imprisonment of Sami al-Hajj?
News Limited papers have rightly complained of the treatment of Fiji Times managing director Evan Hannah. But seriously, where were they when another journalist was kept at Guantanamo Bay? Irfan Yusuf writes.
