It was on this day in 2003, that George W. Bush addressed the country in prime-time to announce...
Category - Torture
MSNBC’s Scarborough Misled Viewers on Torture
I missed this yesterday, but holy hell. Here's Joe Scarborough: "[Zero Dark Thirty] presents a...
Why I Probably Won’t Watch ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
Turns out they falsely link waterboarding with ascertaining the location of Bin Laden: The film...
Just Like Bush
The president in Hawaii yesterday set the record straight on the U.S. position regarding...
Cruel and Unusual
The accused Wikileaks leaker, Bradley Manning, is being subjected to what amounts to torture in a...
Bush Admits to Authorizing War Crime
Oh look. "Damn right." That's what former president George W. Bush told CIA officials when they...
Retarded
DougJ: Even if we can’t use the word “retarded” anymore, at least we’re still allowed to torture...
Cheney and the 'No Attacks Mythology'
Here's Dick Cheney on Fox News Sunday: I guess the other thing that offends the hell out of me...
Gitmo A Go-Go
This song was apparently inspired by my Huffington Post column, The Tortured Logic of the Torture...
The Torture Memo Lie
Throughout the morning, MSNBC and others repeated the false conclusion that the newly released CIA...
Torture Investigations
Attorney General Holder is leaning towards a special prosecutor. WASHINGTON — Contrary to White...
Torturing An Innocent Man
Former Guantanamo detainee Lakhdar Boumediene to ABC News: Boumediene described being pulled up...
Bonus Scarborough Gasbaggery
Joe appeared on MSNBC outside of his show to discuss the news that Cheney personally briefed...
The Cheney Files
Senator Levin has seen the Cheney Family files that allegedly "prove" torture saved lives. The...
Cookies Kept Us Safe
Ali Soufan, who also attained mountains of information from his hands-off interrogation of Abu...
Note to Scarborough
Via a Sullivan reader: But, as many are noting, this was friendly waterboarding experimental extra...
Cheney vs. O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell corners Liz Cheney on a variety of contradictory statements.
Memorial Day
4,300 reported American military casualties in Iraq so far -- a war that was largely sold to the...
Step Into the Coffin, Wingnuts
Echoing what Sargent writes here, I'm actually wondering which of the various wingnut torture...
Manly Man
Here's me. Out of town for a relaxing Memorial Day weekend. And I can't stop thinking about Dick...