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[Odograph.com] Nonetheless, and regardless of any disagreements Webster’s might have with his definition, Bush declared last month that the accusations of torture and abuse by detainees at Guantanamo weren’t credible because they were made by “people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble.”

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http://therevolutionwillbeblogged.blogspot.com [Let Freedom Ring (Throughout the World)] Dr. Schulz Meets His Match: WALLACE: You know, you talked about torture in your first answer. In your presentation of the report, you listed what you called high-level torture architects, including Defense Secretary Rumsfeld & Attorney General Gonzales. Then you went on to say, & let's put it up: "The apparent high-level architects of torture should, therefore, think twice before planning their next vacation to places like Acapulco or the French Riviera, because they may well find themselves under arrest as Augusto Pinochet, famously did in London in 1998."

http://proudlib.blogspot.com [Proud Liberal] Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: "The second example from this month of the Bush administration's contempt for truth, justice, and the American way (particularly the truth part), came in the form of revelations that a White House official and former energy lobbyist doctored reports on global warming to minimize links to greenhouse emissions. The dissembler-in-chief was Philip Cooney, chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

http://thedignifiedrant.blogspot.com [The Dignified Rant] Who Should Be Behind Bars?: The bottom line for many of the critics of our practices at Gitmo is not what we do, but that we are the ones holding the enemy. Amnesty International appears to thinks justice would be served if the tables were turned and Islamists were holding Americans prisoner. They seem to think that America deserved the lesson of 9-11 but since we have failed to just curl up and cry for forgiveness, Amnesty International will help out and try to continue the lesson.

[Obsidian Wings] Amnesty Travesty Part III: Should conservatives beat 'em by joining 'em?: On this I half agree.  First, the International Committee of the Red Cross already has access to detainees (or at least the non-ghost kind).  If there are other independent and impartial human rights groups out there who seek access, then let them in.  Sadly, Amnesty International has lost its claim to impartiality because of the hostile statements made by its leaders.  As for transparency, I fully agree with Ms. Khan.  There should be as much transparency as possible, but not just with the United States.  The other nations of the world should be just as transparent.  Not only that, Amnesty International could use a lot more transparency.  Sadly, too many of their disclosures are well short of the openness preached by the secretary general.

http://politicsofdissent.blogspot.com [Politics of Dissent] Trained to "Disassemble": The second example from this month of the Bush administration's contempt for truth, justice, and the American way (particularly the truth part), came in the form of revelations that a White House official and former energy lobbyist doctored reports on global warming to minimize links to greenhouse emissions. The dissembler-in-chief was Philip Cooney, chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

http://thepete.com [Thepete.com] ThePete.Com: America is great. You want to know why? It’s because corporations are allowed to roam free like the ... US GOVERNMENT FACES KIDNAPPING/TORTURE ACCUSATIONS ...

http://www.coyoteblog.com [Coyoteblog.com] Coyote Blog: Not the Comfy Chair! (Updated): UPDATE: And to be clear, this is torture, or close enough.  Its good these folks are being brought to justice.   I encourage the media to keep up the pressure on true misconduct -- the gratuitous "wrapped-them-in-the-israeli-flag non-tortures just dillute our focus.  I guess I would also encourage those of you who want to extrapolate from these events to a condemnation of the US military as a whole to inform yourself.  The US military, like any institution of human beings, has criminals in it.  However, that being said, our military has been by far the best behaved occupying force in history, bar none (And, if you don't think they should be occupiers at all, well, blame the politicians that sent them).  For every story of atrocious behavior by a US soldier are 20 stories of soldiers being fair and kind.  The fact that these 20 other stories don't make the paper doesn't make them any less true.

[Lawandterrorism.com] The Law and Terrorism Blog - Torture, Abuse, Mistreatment: ...the Administration construes current law, including Article 16, not to prohibit the CIA from engaging in what might be called “torture light” against aliens detained overseas””that is, to permit the CIA to engage in interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding and threatening the death of loved ones, that (in the Administration’s view) do not quite rise to the level of “torture” as that word is defined under current law””and to do so even where such conduct would “shock the conscience,” and thus be unconstitutional, if performed here in the U.S." link

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