America's Problem - How Torture Came Down From The Top
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Torture and Rumors of Torture: Archive
Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
Torture and Rumors of Torture: Archive
Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
06/12/2004 04:45 AMSeymour Hersh Talks of Child Torture, Looks Frightened .. The scariest
part .. getting E-mail .. How low? ..
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"the President of the United States is
not bound by laws banning the use of
torture and anyone he orders to torture
another could not be prosecuted"
"the President of the United States is
not bound by laws banning the use of
torture and anyone he orders to torture
another could not be prosecuted"
06/08/2004 08:23 PMThieves Fall Out in the Bush
Administration Over American Torture in
Saddam's Torture Chambers, But It
Happened at Gitmo and in Afghanistan
Too. Don't Kid Yourself. 5/6
Thieves Fall Out in the Bush
Administration Over American Torture in
Saddam's Torture Chambers, But It
Happened at Gitmo and in Afghanistan
Too. Don't Kid Yourself. 5/6
05/06/2004 10:04 AMBush Privately Chides Rumsfeld (washingtonpost.com) .. The Washington
Post
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More Appalling Iraqi Torture Photos
Emerge. Impeachment Now! It Won't Happen
But It Should. America is Disgraced and
an Islamic Backlash for the Bush Cartel
Corporate Culture of Torture and
Humiliation Threatens Our National
Security. 5/6
More Appalling Iraqi Torture Photos
Emerge. Impeachment Now! It Won't Happen
But It Should. America is Disgraced and
an Islamic Backlash for the Bush Cartel
Corporate Culture of Torture and
Humiliation Threatens Our National
Security. 5/6
05/06/2004 04:44 AMwashingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5623-2004May5.html
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Torture and Truth and The Logic of
Torture
Torture and Truth and The Logic of
Torture
06/04/2004 03:58 PM
Torture and Truth
and
The
Logic of Torture--Mark Danner writes about
Article 15-6
Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade (The Taguba
Report) and
Report of the International Committee of the Red
Cross (ICRC) on the Treatment by the Coalition Forces of Prisoners of
War and Other Protected Persons by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq
During Arrest, Internment and Interrogation in the former and
concludes thusly in the latter:
Behind the exotic
brutality so painstakingly recorded in Abu Ghraib, and the multiple
tangled plotlines that will be teased out in the coming weeks and
months about responsibility, knowledge, and culpability, lies a simple
truth, well known but not yet publicly admitted in Washington: that
since the attacks of September 11, 2001, officials of the United
States, at various locations around the world, from Bagram in
Afghanistan to Guantanamo in Cuba to Abu Ghraib in Iraq, have been
torturing prisoners. (More Within) No aid for America's bad image
No aid for America's bad image
12/30/2004 04:51 PMBy lying low in the wake of the Asian tsunami, and then surfacing to
pledge the relatively small amount of $35 million in relief aid, has
President Bush squandered an opportunity to mend America's image
abroad? It's a provocative question posed by David Sanger in the
New York Times Thursday, in which he
quotes Morton Abramowitz, who served as American ambassador to
Thailand a quarter century ago and went on to become one of the
founders of the International Crisis Group, which helps prepare
governments to respond to unexpected shocks. "It's a tragedy but it is
also an opportunity to demonstrate that terrorism doesn't drive out
everything else," Abramowitz said. "It's a chance for him to show what
kind of country we are."
America's First POWs
America's First POWs
05/31/2004 01:52 PM
America's
First POWs. The Department of Defense says there were 4,435 battle
deaths during the Revolutionary War. More than twice as many
Americans
died in
British prison ships in New York Harbor. You can get an idea of
their suffering from the news stories I've linked, or read
a more
detailed account written in the 1860s from Henry R. Stiles's
A
History of the City of Brooklyn (scroll down a bit and keep
hitting Next). There are more links at
this
site, which focuses on the long-neglected
Monument for
the Prison Ship Martyrs in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park. A
remembrance for Memorial Day.
America's Best Spirit
America's Best Spirit
05/30/2004 09:07 AMMarc Danziger, a.k.a. the ``Armed Liberal'' Web logger, supported the
war in Iraq. Britt Blaser, a Howard Dean campaign adviser, did not.
Yet they agree on at least one thing about that Middle Eastern
nation's struggle: However right or wrong America's official policy
may be, Americans should do what we can to help Iraqis.
More...
America's Best Airline?
America's Best Airline?
01/03/2005 05:56 PMHawaiian Airlines is putting up impressive numbers, including some
that really matter to travelers.
America's War With Blogistan
America's War With Blogistan
07/07/2004 04:43 AMThe blog represents free speech in excelsis. Or does it? If the blog
accepts advertising or maintains ties to institutions -- like, say,
the Democratic Party -- then the freedom to say whatever you like can
be sharply curtailed. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
America's Not So Up to Speed
America's Not So Up to Speed
04/16/2005 02:43 AMWhat is America's global role?
What is America's global role?
07/04/2004 05:32 AMAmerican power and influence is admired but also reviled. Is the
world's only superpower the champion of liberty or is it also an
imperial power?
America's Online Pursuits
America's Online Pursuits
12/29/2003 05:29 PMAmerica's Online Pursuits: The Changing Picture of Who's
Online and What They Dohttp://ww
w.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=106A report
by the Pew Internet & American Life Project analyzing the responses of
more than 64,000 Americans to phone surveys in the past three years
shows that 63 percent of U.S. adults now are online and many of them -
especially those with several years of online experience - have built
Internet use into their lives in practical ways. Among our findings
about change in the Internet world over time:
- Online
activity has consistently grown over the course of our research.
Internet users discover more things to do online as they gain
experience and as new applications become available. This momentum
often fuels increasing reliance on the Internet in everyday life and
higher expectations about the things people can do online.
- Despite this growth in activity, the growth of the online
population itself has slowed. There was almost no growth over the
course of 2002 and there has been only a small uptick in recent months
to leave the size of the online U.S. adult population at 63 percent of
all those 18 and over.
- Different people use the Internet
in different ways. The report is full of examples of how people in
different demographic groups use the Internet for different
purposes.
- Experience and the quality of online
connections matter. Those with more experience online and those who
have high-speed connections at home generally do more online more
often than those with lower levels of experience and those with
dial-up connections. The growth of the cohort of veteran users, those
with at least three years of online experience, has been striking.
Nearly three-quarters of Internet users have at least three years of
experience.
- Online Americans' experience with the
commercial side of the Internet has expanded dramatically in spite of
the economic slump. Financial and transaction activities such as
online banking and online auctions have grown more than any other
genre of activity.
- Email continues to be the "killer app"
of the Internet. More people use email than do any other activity
online. Many report their email use increases their communication with
key family and friends and enhances their connection to them.
- Big news stories drive lasting changes in the news-seeking
audience online.
America's Most Literate Cities
America's Most Literate Cities
12/08/2003 05:53 AMAmerica's Most Literate Citieshttp://www.uww.edu/cities/This study, compiled in summer 2003, pieces together a
literacy profile of America's 64 largest cities, drawing from U.S.
Census data, newspaper circulation rates, library resources,
publishers and other public documents. The study, authored by
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Chancellor and education Professor
Jack Miller, draws on statistics from five categories and 13 different
measures of literacy to provide a ranking for all cities with a
population of 250,000 or more. The Top 10:
1) Minneapolis,
MN
2) Seattle, WA
3) Denver, CO
4) Atlanta, GA
5) San Francisco, CA
6) Pittsburgh, PA
7) Washington,
DC
8) Louisville, KY
9) Portland, OR
10) Cincinnati,
OH
America's Car-Mart Accelerates
America's Car-Mart Accelerates
09/09/2004 02:41 PMThe used-car dealer produces better-than-expected results for the
first quarter.
Diminishing America's Meaning
Diminishing America's Meaning
06/10/2004 11:35 AMRichard Cohen (Washington Post): A Plunge from the Moral Heights. The Bush administration
constantly reminds us that there's a war on. That's wrong. There are
two. One is being fought by soldiers in combat, and the other is being
fought for the hearts and minds of people who are not yet our enemies.
However badly the administration has botched the first war -- where,
oh where, is Osama bin Laden? -- it has done even worse with the
second. It has jutted its chin to the world, appeared pugnacious and
unilateralist, permitted the abuse of POWs and others at Abu Ghraib,
and now toyed in some fashion with torture. The Bush administration
has shamed us all, reducing us to the level of those governments that
also have wonderful laws forbidding torture, but condone it anyway.
Even if there wasn't a moral issue, you'd imagine
that even this crowd would grasp the practical necessity of treating
prisoners with decency. If we declare license to do this to other
nations' combatants, other nations will do it to ours.
But the issue is deeper. As Michael Froomkin, professor of law at the
University of Miami, notes on
his blog, the adminstration's rationale is
truly frightening. Of a redacted copy of the Justice Department memo
Ashcroft won't give Congress but which has been leaked widely to the
media, Froomkin writes:
(It) sets out a view of an
unlimited Presidential power to do anything he wants with “enemy
combatants”. The bill of rights is nowhere mentioned. There is
no principle suggested which limits this purported authority to
non-citizens, or to the battlefield. Under this reasoning, it would be
perfectly proper to grab any one of us and torture us if the President
determined that the war effort required it. I cannot exaggerate how
pernicious this argument is, and how incompatible it is with a free
society. The Constitution does not make the President a King. This
memo does.
Will this be the catalyst that helps
Congress find its spine?
Bob Herbert: America's Abu Ghraibs
Bob Herbert: America's Abu Ghraibs
06/01/2004 05:46 AMnytimes.com/2004/05/31/opinion/31HERB.html
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Repairing America's image
Repairing America's image
01/04/2005 01:45 PMBush asks his dad and Clinton to lead a fundraising appeal among U.S.
citizens, who so far have donated about $100 million to tsunami
relief.
America's Army Fluxbox 2
America's Army Fluxbox 2
06/16/2004 05:57 PMA theme about the game America's Army.
America's Army Patch v2.1
America's Army Patch v2.1
06/02/2004 04:12 AMAmerica's Best Hospitals 2003
America's Best Hospitals 2003
11/10/2003 10:50 PMAmerica's Best Hospitals 2003htt
p://www.usnews.com/usnews/nycu/health/hosptl/tophosp.htmAmerica's Best Hospitals 2003 ... If you're looking for the best in
medical care, check out the 14th annual edition of "America's Best
Hospitals." They rank 203 top medical centers in 17 specialties. View
the U.S. News
H
onor Roll.
America's Army 2.0 now available for
Mac, Linux
America's Army 2.0 now available for
Mac, Linux
12/02/2003 12:31 AMAs MacCentral
first
reported yesterday, today marks the release of America's Army:
Special Forces, a new version of the recruiting tool/computer game
produced by the U.S. Army. The game is now available from links on the
America's Army Web site, both as an updater for existing 1.9 users and
also as a full version download.
America's Internet terrorist
America's Internet terrorist
04/15/2004 10:29 PMStraits Times Apr 16 2004 2:13AM GMT
America's future firepower
America's future firepower
06/11/2004 01:32 AMNews.bbc.co.uk - Thu Jun 10, 08:15 am GMT
America's laziest fascist
America's laziest fascist
05/19/2004 11:46 PM
America's laziest fascist Inside Michael Savage's hatefest. I
can't tell if this is offensive or just sadly pathetic. Salon: But
if the first half of the event showcased Savage's ability to stir the
faithful, the second half was an object lesson in how a performer can
take his audience -- and his talent -- for granted. Basically, he
bombed. He spent nearly 20 minutes sitting in a stuffed chair in front
of a television set, free-associating as he channel surfed. Seeing
footage of Jordan's King Abdullah, he screamed, "Kiss my ass!
Shut the hell up!" To a soccer match in Spanish, he quipped,
"Reminds me of my gardener." It was about as entertaining as
watching a middle-aged man yelling at his living room TV. Savage
eventually realized things weren't going well. "You don't like
this shit," he said. "It's a bad act."
America's Biggest Employers
America's Biggest Employers
01/28/2004 09:15 AMMany of them are hiring, too.
America's National Asstime
America's National Asstime
01/11/2004 01:34 AMPete Rose may be banned from baseball, but he can still enjoy a
rousing game of Ohio's other favorite pastime on Feb. 20, when U.S.
Bank Arena hosts the first annual
Cincinnat
i Cornhole Classic. (01-11)
America's Car-Mart Rolls On
America's Car-Mart Rolls On
06/10/2004 11:07 AMWill the pre-owned car dealer continue to drive better-than-expected
results?
America's Army: Special Forces 2.0
America's Army: Special Forces 2.0
12/02/2003 01:48 AMPlayers virtually explore the development and employment of Army
Special Forces Soldiers.
America's Best Graduate Schools 2005
America's Best Graduate Schools 2005
04/19/2004 07:08 AMAmerica's Best Graduate Schools 2005 http://snipurl.com/5rxtIn addition to rankings of graduate programs, USNews offers a
detailed school directory, search and comparison tools, articles, and
more. New in Best Graduate Schools 2005: mini-directories and
mini-searches for Fine Arts, Health, Library Science, and Public
Affairs!
New Site Discovers America's Best
Bakeries
New Site Discovers America's Best
Bakeries
12/17/2004 06:36 PM1-800-Bakery.com has launched the Web's first ever site now offering
anyone in the country the opportunity to find online, in one location,
the most extensive variety of unique baked goods selected from
numerous small town (Main St. USA) bakeries and larger specialty
bakers.
GW Bush Invigorating America's Youth
GW Bush Invigorating America's Youth
07/12/2004 08:59 AMI just found this very funny clip from David Letterman on David
Weinberger's blog. (You need Real Player) So David, you may be the
last person in America to see this clip, but at least not the last in
the...
America's Army: Special Forces 2.1
America's Army: Special Forces 2.1
08/03/2004 07:34 PMIf you're looking for a great, free way to explore player tactics in a
good, realistic environment, then there's nothing better out there
than America's Army. By Eric Ford, Inside Mac Games (via MyAppleMenu)
Top Tip: How do I install "America's
Army" in Linux?
Top Tip: How do I install "America's
Army" in Linux?
01/08/2004 07:15 PMAfter reading about how awesome "America's Army" is on a linux system
(I have RedHat 9), I decided to download all 670 MB of it. MY QUESTION
IS THIS: the file is a .RUN file, so how do I install it? Do I just
double-click it or what? I never came across a .RUN file before.
Patterson America's New Golden Girl (AP)
Patterson America's New Golden Girl (AP)
08/20/2004 08:54 AMAP - Carly Patterson wanted to be an Olympic champion for as long as
she can remember, hoping she'd be "the next Mary Lou" someday. Now,
little girls all over America want to be "the next Carly." Soaring
high above the floor and strutting her stuff as if she owned the
place, the 16-year-old dynamo became the first U.S. woman to win the
Olympic all-around since Mary Lou Retton in 1984. And in the process,
she tumbled her way into the hearts of millions of Americans.
America's Top Chef Returns to New York
(AP)
America's Top Chef Returns to New York
(AP)
02/15/2004 02:31 PMAP - In a profession known for big egos and sharp knives, Thomas
Keller got an uncharacteristic welcome from his fellow chefs.
Casey Kasem's last day as host for
America's Top 40
Casey Kasem's last day as host for
America's Top 40
01/06/2004 06:48 AMan exclusive interview after his final taping .. Well, apparently,
he's had enough .. keep your feet on the
ground
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Gates Fetes America's Top CEOs
Gates Fetes America's Top CEOs
05/21/2004 05:30 AMIn his annual schmoozefest with top American CEOs, Microsoft chairman
Bill Gates says technology still has a long way to go in improving
productivity. The CEOs politely listen, then go about networking.
Cydney Gillis reports from Seattle.
QSR Magazine | America's Hottest Chains
QSR Magazine | America's Hottest Chains
08/14/2004 05:01 PMTop 50 fast food chains (by
sales)
qsrmagazine.com/qsr50/2004/charts/top50.html
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