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War Without End

By Digby
June 3, 2009

Marcy Wheeler hosted a panel on torture at the AFN conference featuring Rep. Jerry Nadler and Christopher Anders of the ACLU, in which Nadler set forth a couple of ideas that are illuminating about the thinking among political players on the subject.

Marcy writes about one of them here:

Yesterday, Jerrold Nadler announced he will hold a hearing on state secrets on Thursday. more »

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The Truth About Consequences: Conservatives, Progressives, and Accountability Moments

By Sara Robinson
April 21, 2009

The muddle we're hearing out of Washington these days on issues such as torture and the Wall Street collapse is based on the seriously crossed wires between conservative and liberal ideas of accountability. We're all using the same words, but we're also all hearing very different things. Given that, we need to be very concerned that the Democrats, as the liberal party, have apparently completely forgotten how our liberal system of laws is supposed to work.

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President Bush was confused by what “Waterboarding” meant.

By James Clarke
October 15, 2008

According to The Washington Post George W. more »

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Ashamed to be American

By Mickey Z.
From smirkingchimp.com
May 7th, 2008

smirkingchimp.com — I was reading Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo

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Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up

By Bill Scher
April 14, 2008

A particularly shameful day for the Sunday shows, which once again went 0-for-3 for the Watchdog. more »

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Why Americans don't torture

By William Henry Mee
February 23, 2008

2-17-2008
In the founding of this country, our commanding general in the revolution, George Washington, more »

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Waterboarding for God

By Ray McGovern
February 11th, 2008

After one spends 45 years in Washington, high farce does not normally throw one off balance. I found the past few days, however, an acid test of my equilibrium.

I missed the National Prayer Breakfast—for the 45th time in a row. But, as I drove to work I listened with rapt attention as President George W. Bush gave his insights on prayer:

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