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Christopher Hitchens Gets Waterboarded Tortured

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in The War On Terrorism, The World, Torture, United States, al Qaeda

I’m sure you’ve heard the reports of what this process actually feels like (a slow drowning), so I’ll spare you Hitchens’ explanation.
Instead, let’s look at the aftermath…
The interrogators would hardly have had time to ask me any questions, and I knew that I would quite readily have agreed to supply any answer. I still feel [...]

July 2nd, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

The CIA tortured this cartoon

By donar | Related entries in 9/11, Cartoons, Guantanamo Bay, Political Graffiti, Torture

Usually it’s the cartoonist that is tortured, but the CIA got a hold of my cartoon and it disappeared for awhile. Thank god it survived and I was able to recover it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t like to talk much and tends to curl up in the corner of my studio. Wash Post article

June 18th, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

Video: Man Gets Stuck In Elevator For 41 Hours

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Comedy, Kitchen Sink, New York, New York City, Torture, Video

Watch this time lapsed video. It’s hypnotic.

More from the New Yorker:
White has the security-camera videotape of his time in the McGraw-Hill elevator. He has watched it twice-it was recorded at forty times regular speed, which makes him look like a bug in a box. The most striking thing to him about the tape is that [...]

April 21st, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Thank You Media!

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, 9/11, Barack, Billary, Bush, Cheney, Democrats, Hillary, Law, Media, Memes, Religion, Republicans, The War On Terrorism, Torture

Greenwald has a breakdown of the stories that made the news…
Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:
“Yoo and torture” - 102
“Mukasey and 9/11″ — 73
“Yoo and Fourth Amendment” — 16
“Obama and bowling” — 1,043
“Obama and Wright” — More than [...]

April 6th, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

The Yoo Torture Memo

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 9/11, Bad Decisions, Bush, Cheney, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Islam, Law, Military, Terrorism, The War On Terrorism, The World, Torture, War

All 70+ pages of it.
Here’s the gist…
In the March 14, 2003 memo, Yoo says the Constitution was not in play with regard to the interrogations because the Fifth Amendment (which provides for due process of law) and the Eighth Amendment (which prevents the government from employing cruel and usual punishment) does “not extend to alien [...]

April 1st, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Errol Morris’ Standard Operating Procedure

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Bush, Cheney, Ethics, Iraq, Military, The Politics Of Film, The War On Terrorism, The World, Torture, Transparency, Video, War

The award winning documentarian trains his patented eye on the events that happened at Abu Ghraib prison in a film coming out on April 25.
From watching the following clips, as well as Frontline’s searing Bush’s War, a pretty clear picture emerges and makes it incredibly difficult for the Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld to put [...]

March 31st, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Congressional Dems Briefed On Waterboarding In 2002

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Law, The War On Terrorism, Torture

The Washington Post reports that four members of Congress, including Pelosi, were told about this interrogation method and their were no objections.
In fact…
[...] on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
Push harder? The gall of these people is [...]

December 10th, 2007 | Permalink| No Comments »