torture

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/31/bergen.cheney/index.html

"Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff for then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, said that the interrogation program began in April and May of 2002, and Cheney's office kept close tabs on the questioning.

"Its principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at preempting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al Qaeda," Wilkerson wrote in The Washington Note, an online political journal."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/29/levin.cheney/index.html

Actually an intesting interview of Ventura on Larry King:

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/05/jesse_ventura_c.php

"Prison guards jailed for abusing inmates at the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq are planning to appeal against their convictions on the ground that recently released CIA torture memos prove that they were scapegoats for the Bush Administration.

"The photographs of prisoner abuse at the Baghdad jail in 2004 sparked worldwide outrage but the previous administration, from President Bush down, blamed the incident on a few low-ranking “bad apples” who were acting on their own.

I don't recognize this site, but it'll be intesting if there's more on this...

Good response for all the "torture is necessary" people:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/195089

Bush administration twisting science to their own ends?  I'm shocked!  SHOCKED I tell you!

"A newly declassified Congressional report released Tuesday outlined the most detailed evidence yet that the military’s use of harsh interrogation methods on terrorism suspects was approved at high levels of the Bush administration."

This is exactly why we need fact-finding... to see the extent of what was done, and make sure it never happens again.  Also, this is why there must be trials for these people, to make sure that they are who we think they are and that they deserve punishment.  Placing the roles of judge, jury, and torturer in the same soldier's hands is a recipe for abuse.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/20/cia.waterboarding/index.html