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Secret Torture Memos Shame Justice Dept.Posted on Oct 3, 2007In 2005, the Justice Department issued two secret opinions on torture that endorsed and protected the administration’s desire to use physically and psychologically traumatizing interrogation techniques. Then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey reportedly warned his colleagues that they would be “ashamed” when their work became public.
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By John Hanks, October 7, 2007 at 7:25 am # They torture them so that we will know that they will torture us. Torture is a form of terrorism. Information isn’t that important.
By www.nazilieskill.us, October 5, 2007 at 6:40 am # They are another country. They are “crooks without borders”, namely the Republicans, Saudis and Israelis to name a few. They don’t need to break laws because they write them. Money takes care of overything else. Where there is private control as in banking, media, oil, and defense there is crook control. Thieves steal cars in Israel and take them to chop shops in Palestine. That’s crooks without borders.
By PACRAT, October 5, 2007 at 5:25 am # Shamed? This Justice Department? Never! Like the rest of the Bush administration, the Injustice Department is not ashamed of any laws it has broken! All of this happened while the republicans in congress approved and applauded, and the democrats kept their thumbs in! And now that the republicans remain in charge of congress we are in for the revelation of more crimes of this administration. The only action the Constitution mandates as a remedy is IMPEACHMENT - and it is imcombent on congress to start the process!
By thomas billis, October 5, 2007 at 2:53 am # Beware if we get hit again the theme will be if the Congress did not put restaints on us we could have avoided it.What scares me is a large number of people will believe it.Instead of the logical reason we got hit again is that they are stupendously incompetent.My7 biggest worry is another attack and the scaredy cat Americans will let the Constitution become toilet paper.Boy if the Founding Fathers had thought their sacrifice would have led to the chicken shit Americans we have become I do not know if they would have bothered.The typical American response to danger is"I do not care what you do big father just let me have the illusion of safety."Pathetic.
By Bob Zimmerman, October 4, 2007 at 6:28 pm # I’m not surprised by these revelations but immensely sad that a U.S. president would countenance such disgraceful behavior. Not since Richard Nixon has this country be so let down by our leaders who don’t seem to understand the U.S. Constitution or the principles upon which this country was founded. What a sad day for America!
By www.nazilieskill.us, October 4, 2007 at 3:17 pm # The torture was never directed against “terrorists”. They were victimized as a warning to those who stood against the war for bucks.
By rodney, October 4, 2007 at 11:39 am # Shame! the Bush Adminstration has no shame.George “Goulog” Bush Dick “Pol Pot” Cheney Condolezza “Edi Amin” Rice has no shame. Impeachment should have happened a long time ago. The Decider and the Patriot Act now stands as the rule of law. The yes men Republicans, and the spindless Democrats, have allowed us to become a unaccountable Dictatorship run by Bush ane his minions of Halliburton, Kellogg Root and Brown. Blackwater, Hannity, Limbaugh,Colter, The Christian Right, and all of the other so called moral, money grubbing thieves that are sending this nation the debts of hell. God Bless America and no one else, all the way to hell! With Bush leading the way!
By Eric L Prentis, October 4, 2007 at 9:20 am # The Bush Administration will be known for all time for enacting the US Torture Gestapo, a bitter low point for American prestige on the world stage.
By bibisad, October 4, 2007 at 8:18 am # Perhaps they all created a corrupt environment. They knew, as the “mafia”, to get all hands soiled with blood, in that way everyone will be safe from the law. Add Your Comment |
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