Comments on: Negroponte Admits that Waterboarding Was Used By Bush Administration

By: zakimar

zakimar — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:42:46 +0000

First, what constitutes “a world-class detention facility”?

Secondly, more Russian PORN?

By: Ylekldui

Ylekldui — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:48:34 +0000

Visit this link please, ��
, 8]],

By: Medical Report Finds Evidence of Torture of Detainees Later Found to be Innocent « JONATHAN TURLEY

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:29:37 +0000

[...] the fact that interrogators and officials now admit to using torture, here, Congress continues to feign interest while withholding any substance action against those who [...]

By: deeply worried

deeply worried — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:54:51 +0000

Susan and Patty C,

What a horrible fate we avoided: a country with Giulani as President!

Patty C, I will check out that link you provided.

Let’s think outside the box, this testimony is making me giddy:

Lets keep the electoral college but give the United Nations a set number of votes in it that they could cast. That way the nations that are effected by our actions would have some small say in who goes to the Oval Office! With that standard, Bush would never have had a second administration. Yes, I am an unapologetic internationalist!

Let Barack Obama cross party lines and have Huckabee as his vice president on a “national unity” campaign! If he is serious about ending the partisan gridlock, let him choose someone from the other party as his running mate!

By: Patty C

Patty C — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:01:19 +0000

Susan, I heard last night Giuliani is announcing his endorsement of McCain today at the Reagan Library-where tonight’s debate is being held.

Tom Brokaw got a call from a friend, who has been following the Republican campaigns. ‘She’ said Rudy had a lot of BIG endorsements there to hand over – no big surprise there. And Tim Russert is predicting Huckabee to be he VP pick.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:04:50 +0000

Patty, that was good news for me too! I never liked Guiliani, and am very glad he lost. But is he going to continue in the race despite his loss in FL? I didn’t hear the details on that question.

By: Patty C

Patty C — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:05:44 +0000

DW, pick up The Lucifer Effect by Phil Zimbardo formerly of Stanford, if you haven’t yet or listen to his lecture on “The Zimbardo Prison Experiment”. http://www.prisonexp.org/

As to the white sepulchers reference, I often say “Church is a place for sinners”.

JT, guess I won’t be moving to Canada to start that kudzu brewery, afterall since Giuliani’s loss last night. Yehhh!

By: Mukasey Refuses to Answer Question on Waterboarding in Congress « JONATHAN TURLEY

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:11:30 +0000

[...] as confirmed recently by both high-ranking Bush officials and former interrogators. Click here Mukasey — as in his confirmation hearing — was asked to confirm a legal standard akin [...]

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:00:43 +0000

Jonathan (I hope you don’t mind my using your first name, if you do, my apologies), I have to respectfully disagree with the above. I certainly didn’t knowingly vote for any candidate who would be so willing to condone torture. Whether we “deserve” these so-called leaders in the Democratic party is open to question, for me anyway. Deeply Worried, I definitely agree that the attitude of the “religious right” on this issue is hypocritical but again not surprising.

Maybe Jonathan is right, that we do deserve the government we get, especially when we — both average citizens and those in the media — don’t cross-examine our candidates for Congress, the Senate and of course, the Presidency, at least not nearly enough BEFORE electing them. I’ll have to think that one over a bit more.

By: deeply worried

deeply worried — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:09:04 +0000

“…the terrible ease with which modern Americans turn away from human suffering”

I think that line was in a book review this week in the Sunday NYT.

What disturbs me is that the Evangelical Right with its strong solicitude for the dignity of life, doesn’t get up in arms about torture. Isn’t torture preciesly a defilement and desecration of the “temple of the Lord?” Yet a curious silence is all we get from them.

It makes me think of that biblical phrase, “whitened sepulchers” when contemplating the utter hypocrisy of America’s religious right on this issue.

By: jonathanturley

jonathanturley — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:51:42 +0000

Susan:

The problem with a democratic system is that you get the government that you deserve and we deserve these people.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:33:22 +0000

The unwillingness of leading Democrats to look deeply into the issues of torture sadly comes as no surprise to me by now. They have too many constituents that consider torture to be a positive, not a negative, anything to be “safe.” What utter nonsense that is, although the police-state advocates refuse to see it that way. They have no idea that they have done what Benjamin Franklin warned us all against long ago, given up our essential liberties to gain a little temporary “safety.” And in so doing, have gambled away both liberty and safety, for ALL citizens, which is a terrible tragedy for this nation.