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POPSUS Attorney General Considers Torture Probe This is great news many of us have been pressuring for, lobbying for and waiting for. Of course, if you're a warmonger and believe your country can do any evil, this is an alarm bell, for sure: It's the start of the dam breaking.
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POPSLawsuit Against Torture Moves Forward
The lawsuit is against the lawyer in the Bush White House who wrote legal opinions justifying torture. The lawsuit is filed by a victim of torture, a U.S. native-born citizen who was held in prison, in indefinite detention for three years and tortured during that time. This is how the "system," is suppose to work. Torture is a crime. It's supposed to be handled in courts. This is very good to see - although I'd add a caution against utopian idealism. People have been hurt here. Core principles of our justice systems betrayed and broken. Hundreds of thousands killed by a war started with deliberately fabricated lies; it's not like they're is a cure-all, instant 'happy ending.' It's like if you're caught in an avalanche. People die in avalanches. Or bones get broken and lives crippled. Homes get destroyed, etc. Later a team will probably arrive to clear the road, clean things up, provide aid for the wounded...but they don't buy you a new home, don't replace your wife or
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POPSMore CIA Torture Docs to be Made Public This Week and Next Continued: He eviscerates Dick Cheney's much publicized explanation of the CIA interrogation tactics. So, we've got a lot to look forward to over the next week. The un-redacted statements from "high-level members of al Qaeda" will be released on Friday. However, these won't do much sway the opinions of Bush defenders. The 2004 CIA Inspector General report, having been prepared while Bush was still in power, will be more difficult to deflect. We can expect the CIA IG report to be released on June 19. Let's just hope the CIA doesn't get carried away with the black marker.
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POPSUSA VP Cheney Admits Approving Torture This story comes from a TV interview yesterday. By way of background info, torture is a war crime and waterboarding is torture. Also, after World War II the U.S. convicted and sentenced to death and hung Japanese prison officials who did waterboarding. So now what? -- Well, of course there should be war crime trials, as I and hundreds of thousands of others have been strongly advocating for the last few years. Yet the current now news spin is: "The Democrats/Congress might not want to do anything about this, like it might be 'too messy,' or distract from their agenda. !? People have done well in getting a good number of better leaders this past election but now lobbying pressure - activist pressure -- advocating pressure is needed. JUSTICE - is the word we want to impress upon them. JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY. Part of the issue, it seems, is Special Privileges Politicians think they have special privileges. Cheney must believe he can get away with murder and t
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POPSSecret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations
MORE: Mr. Gonzales approved the legal memorandum on “combined effects” over the objections of James B. Comey, the deputy attorney general, who was leaving his job after bruising clashes with the White House. Disagreeing with what he viewed as the opinion’s overreaching legal reasoning, Mr. Comey told colleagues at the department that they would all be “ashamed” when the world eventually learned of it. Later that year, as Congress moved toward outlawing “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment, the Justice Department issued another secret opinion, one most lawmakers did not know existed, current and former officials said. The Justice Department document declared that none of the C.I.A. interrogation methods violated that standard. The classified opinions, never previously disclosed, are a hidden legacy of President Bush’s second term and Mr. Gonzales’s tenure at the Justice Department, where he moved quickly to align it with the White House after a 2004 rebellion by staff lawyers
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