Waterboarding Torture - What It's Really Like Posted: 11 months ago by bigtonyboy
A video demonstrating what waterboarding really looks like
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CIA director: Waterboarding necessary, but potentially illegal Posted: 9 months ago by dollyllama
Waterboarding is necessary though probably not legal, CIA Director Michael Hayden told Congress Thursday as Attorney General Michael Mukasey said he would not open a criminal investigation into the CIA's use of the technique.
*So it's illegal, but no charges, WTF?
*Wanted to post this as an update but can't find it.
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Bush Will Veto Ban On Torture Posted: 9 months ago by dollyllama
Although President Bush has stated that the United States has not and will not torture people, it has been learned that Mr. Bush himself has authorized the use of waterboarding on detainees (a practice previously prosecuted by the United States as a war crime), and has claimed the authority to do so again in certain circumstances.
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Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding Posted: 9 months ago by TraumaMamma
The White House says President Bush will veto legislation on Saturday that would have barred the CIA from using waterboarding — a technique that simulates drowning — and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects.
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Former Employee Claims Company Used Waterboarding to Motivate Workers Posted: 9 months ago by cb__
A supervisor is accused of waterboarding an employee to demonstrate that they should work as hard on sales as the employee had worked to breathe.
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Jon Henley on US military torture euphemisms Posted: 11 months ago by leopoldogolba
Waterboarding, according to the CIA - some of whose most senior officials are currently giving evidence before a congressional inquiry into the organisation's decision to deliberately destroy video recordings of two al-Qaida captives being subjected to the practice - is merely an "enhanced coercive interrogation technique".
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Ex CIA Agent Claims Waterboarding Saved Lives Posted: 11 months ago by mandolinorange
...yet he now claims to be against the use of this torture technique.
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Totally looks like Posted: 4 months ago by BernardBlack
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Some really great ones here.
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CIA destroyed terrorism suspect videotapes Posted: 12 months ago by dollyllama
Officials told NBC News' Robert Windrem that one of the videos included the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah, the leader in charge of al-Qaida's training camps.
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Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002 Posted: 11 months ago by Dangerman
Nancy Pelosi didn't have any concerns about the use of waterboarding when she and other members of congress was briefed on its use.
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I Park Like An Idiot Posted: 3 months ago by muppetmaker
Slap an 'I Park Like An Idiot' sticker on that poorly parked vehicle, snap a photo and send it in.
I cant stand people who park like this.
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Torture justified, say US soldiers Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
WELL over a third of US combat troops deployed in Iraq condone torture to obtain information from insurgents and nearly one in 10 acknowledge mistreating civilians, a survey has found.
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AyePhone talks like a pirate, so you don't have to Posted: 2 months ago by AutumnLotus
In honor of the 13th annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19th, Area 49 has released ayePhone (iTunes link), a ninety-nine cent iPhone application that helps you, too, avoid the critical mistake of speaking like a non-pirate on this, the holiest of all pirate days.
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Waterboarding an attraction at amusement park Posted: 3 months ago by AfroMosHi
A man with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it's not Guantanamo Bay naval base, but New York's Coney Island amusement park.
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Torture? Naw. Posted: 12 months ago by Galoot
This disturbing new Amnesty International video reenacts CIA stress-position torture techniques. Oh, wait. Did I say disturbing? I meant to say, "Hells yeah, do whutever it takes to git them terrists!"
Not safe for work or children.
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Believe Me, It's Torture Posted: 5 months ago by misslesh
What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist—not inflict—it.
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CIA's Latest Waterboarding Victim Posted: 11 months ago by 2manyusernames
Kids, Sadly, Santa may be a bit late getting your gifts to you as he has been detained by the CIA and is undergoing enhanced interrogation.
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