http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/01/11/bush_admits_to_personally_auth Comments On: Bush Admits to Personally Authorizing Torture by Anthony Hecht en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:30:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Birdland]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:36:17 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Cabbagehead]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:38:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by raindrop]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:47:38 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Greg]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:58:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by raindrop]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:46:34 -0800 The Stranger
Keep that in mind when you decide to go In Bruges and then head over to the Hague later.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:11:58 -0800 The Stranger
The problem is that you usually can't tell the wheat from the chaff...When they do a massive information dump, you don't know what's real and what's fake and you have to expend all sorts of intelligence resources to figure it out.
Posted by gnossos]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:42:49 -0800 The Stranger Why? Oh, yeah, except for Dennis Kucinich, Democrats in office are too f--king cowardly to impeach Bush. That's why.
Posted by yucca flower]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:35:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by tacomagirl]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:01:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by California]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:22:44 -0800 The Stranger
United States = epic FAIL.
Posted by Original Andrew]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:42:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by cptnpntstc]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:31:08 -0800 The Stranger
Here's what an Al Qaeda ex-con would sound like on the phone: "Yeah, and then they pushed me underwater for a few minutes...yeah...I was like laughing and bubbles came out my nose and shit...they thought it was torture...shit, I've done worst crap than that to my baby sister...yeah..."
Posted by Captain Wrongway Peachfuzz]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:20:40 -0800 The Stranger
Asking them questions between electric shocks is just to keep the inquisitors amused. It gets to be too much like assembly line work if you don't get to ask them stupid questions each time they cough out all the water in their lungs.
Posted by Rain Monkey]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:04:42 -0800 The Stranger
#3, to answer some of your follow-ups: DOJ attorney John Yoo penned the infamous torture memo that set forth the legal arguments upon which the administration relied. Enjoy:

http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/doj…
Posted by California]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:33:34 -0800 The Stranger
In a way I'm going to miss seeing the little number on the cover of the paper Stranger counting the days until the motherfucker leaves office...
Posted by RainMan]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:19:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by ah ha!]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:14:47 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Anthony Hecht]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:00:05 -0800 The Stranger
[quote]In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, "A number of protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Karla Faye Tucker." "Did you meet with any of them?" I ask. Bush whips around and stares at me. "No, I didn't meet with any of them", he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. "I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with Tucker, though. He asked her real difficult questions like, 'What would you say to Governor Bush?'" "What was her answer?" I wonder. "'Please,'" Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, "'don't kill me.'" I must have looked shocked — ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel — because he immediately stops smirking.[/quote]

http://www.slate.com/id/2131451/

BTW, the exchange between Larry King and Karla Faye Tucker that then-Governor Bush was fuming about for a year after he'd denied her mercy never actually happened, so Bush was doing an impression of a TV moment he apparently also "misremembered".

Also worth mentioning is that Bush's advisor on clemency/death penalty legal issues was none other than Alberto Gonzales.
Posted by My Name Here]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:41:12 -0800 The Stranger Some say let the torturers get a pass, let's not rile up the right wing, we have to save Obama's "political capital" for legislative fights. But it's legally wrong to make prosecutorial decisions for political reasons. And it's politically an error to empower the pro-torture party to be able to say the Democrats think the torture was okay, since they're okay with not prosecuting the torturers.


Posted by Cleve Stockmeyer]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:31:58 -0800 The Stranger You're not actually a writer,
are you...
Just some asshole blowing his brain and spewing whatever falls out. Right?
At least no trees were harmed putting this drivel out...
Posted by zzzzzzz]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:12:55 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sonny]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:02:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Youth Worker]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:50:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by RKM]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:47:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by MG]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:17:22 -0800 The Stranger