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The Nation
by Richard Kim

04/17/09

Even as President Obama acted in the name of transparency and accountabilty in releasing the Bush administration’s OLC’s torture memos, he made assurances that the CIA agents who used the ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ meticulously detailed within would not be subject to criminal prosecution. Glenn Greenwald at Salon, Jeremy Scahill on his blog, David Bromwich at Huffington Post and Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic all have good takes on why Obama’s decision is wrong. I concur. However politically expedient, Obama’s nearly carte blanche absolution of torture was morally wrong, and his justification of it, from a professor of constitutional law, is intellectually dishonest...

http://tinyurl.com/cdx695


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Torture memos reveal brutality of US imperialism

The release of the legal opinions, written by lawyers in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 2002 and 2005, adds to an overwhelming body of evidence that proves the Bush administration carried out a large-scale and systematic torture operation in flagrant violation of domestic and international law.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/memo-a18.shtml



In quotes: George W. Bush on torture

From a commitment to the worldwide elimination of torture to a defence of waterboarding: President Bush in his own words.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6113167.ece


From Information Clearing House



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