We Need a Stronger Word for This Kind of Hypocrisy
The Department of Justice is trying to strip citizenship from a woman in Oregon who came to this country from Bosnia and apparently committed war crimes in her home country. And Jeff Sessions says that...
View ArticleHaspel Promises Not to Restart Torture Program
The nomination of Gina Haspel to be the next CIA director has been teetering on the edge since it was announced because the Republican margin is so slim in the Senate and at least John McCain and Rand...
View ArticleHaspel Almost Withdrew Her Nomination This Weekend
The Washington Post reports that Gina Haspel, the war criminal Trump has nominated to lead the CIA after a career spent torturing people, nearly withdrew her name from nomination this weekend rather...
View ArticleFox and Friends: Haspel was Just Following Orders
You knew this was inevitable, right? You knew that those who are perfectly fine with torturing people would grab on to the “they were just following orders” defense. Never mind that their hero, Ronald...
View ArticleHaspel’s Disingenuous Answers on Torture
The confirmation hearings for war criminal Gina Haspel to be the next CIA Director began on Wednesday and her answers on her history of ordering and carrying out torture were predictably incoherent and...
View ArticleOthers Objected to Torture While Haspel Did Not
My former colleague Spencer Ackerman, now with the Daily Beast, reports that while others who worked at CIA black sites did object to using torture to extract information from detainees, Gina Haspel,...
View ArticleNo, Torture Did Not Lead to the Capture of Bin Laden
Amid the controversy over the nomination of war criminal Gina Haspel to had the CIA, Fox News has been relentlessly pushing the claim that torture led to the capture of Osama Bin Laden by providing the...
View ArticleRand Paul: Use Lie Detectors to Find Out Who Wrote Anonymous Op-Ed
Rand Paul, the alleged libertarian who has embraced the blatantly authoritarian Donald Trump, says that he should require everyone in his administration to take lie detector tests to find out who wrote...
View ArticleDid Kavanaugh Contribute to Bush’s Torture and Warrantless Surveillance...
The Intercept has an interesting article about Brett Kavanaugh’s time in the Bush administration, where he served as an Associate White House Counsel and as Staff Secretary. Trump refused to turn over...
View ArticleWiles Wants McCabe, Rosenstein Waterboarded
Deranged right-wing conspiracy nut Rick Wiles wants former Acting Director of the FBI and current Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein sent to Guantanamo Bay and tortured. Why? I have no idea....
View ArticleTrump to Name Torture Advocate to Head Human Rights Office
In this week’s edition of You Have Got To Be Kidding Me, Trump has nominated a former Pentagon official who staunchly advocated for the Bush torture regime for one of the top human rights positions in...
View ArticleBernstein Wants Democrats Tortured for Trump Impeachment Inquiry
Deranged right-wing thug wannabe Josh Bernstein is so upset by the Democrats opening an inquiry to impeach his hero Trump that he thinks they should be tortured in front of their families as punishment...
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