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Agence France-Presse
Published: Monday December 15, 2008
AMMAN, Dec 15, 2008 (AFP) - A Jordan-based Iraqi rights group said on Monday it has filed 200 lawsuits against US former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and American security firms for their alleged role in torturing Iraqis.

http://firedoglake.com…
Christy Hardin Smith
For exposure of misdeeds to have any punitive sting, those responsible for the bad acts must have the capacity to feel shame and remorse for their conduct. Otherwise, what you have is an empty exposure of some true believer behavior, and no real punishment as a result.

http://www.newsweek.com…
Michael Isikoff and
Mark Hosenball
The Bush administration approved the use of “waterboarding” on Al Qaeda detainees after receiving reports from government psychologists that it was “100 percent effective” in breaking the will of U.S. military personnel subjected to the technique during training, according to documents released today by a Senate Committee.

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RAW STORY
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other members of the Bush administration “conveyed the message that physical pressures and degradation were appropriate treatment for detainees,” claims a Senate Armed Services Committee report issued Thursday.

http://www.prisonplanet.com…
And it has nothing to do with the waterboarding, cattle prods or sleep deprivation - they just wanted to get it off their chest
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
The government is set to wheel out five more tortured detainees in a desperate effort to prop up the thoroughly discredited official 9/11 story, including another [...]

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Stephen C. Webster
Published: Saturday December 6, 2008
New investigation opened into Spanish administration for allowing flights to continue; Italy suspends rendition trial
Outgoing Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice on Friday refused to deny the CIA had engaged in transporting terror suspects to countries that routinely practice torture, when asked by a Danish television reporter.
A new Danish government [...]

http://www.washingtonpost.com…
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 15, 2008; A01
The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency’s use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of [...]

Air Force plans to create fourth B-52 squadron at Minot by 2010…The Air Force will stand up a fourth operational B-52 squadron, likely at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., by late 2009 or early 2010, according to Air Combat Command.
Obama’s Birth Certificate. Hawaii became an American state in 1959, two [...]

Sarah Palin Still Wearing Campaign Clothes…
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight Monday to campaign for Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss. Spectators experienced deja vu as the Alaska governor sported the same jacket she had worn on the campaign trail this fall. Was Palin valiantly recycling old clothes or defiantly [...]

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David Neiwert
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Video courtesy Amnesty International.

A man using the pseudonym Matthew Alexander has written a truly remarkable op-ed for the Washington Post discussing effective interrogation of enemy combatants — which most decidedly does not include torture: