by Jim McIntosh | Feb 12, 2010 | Observations, Torture |
Why are more people not shocked that the George W. Bush administration out-did the Gestapo in their torture methods? This is all so very sad. “Verschärfte Vernehmung” – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan.
by Jim McIntosh | Apr 21, 2009 | Observations, Torture |
In today’s New York Times, Cheney is quoted as “saying that if the country is to judge the methods used in the interrogations, it should have information about what was obtained from the tough tactics.” This man has no shame. Isn’t this like...
by Jim McIntosh | Nov 9, 2007 | Franciscan, Observations, Status, Torture |
I am over in Chile for a Franciscan justice and peace conference. Yesterday, we took a break from the sessions to visit Santiago. Our first stop was Villa Grimaldi, what was in the early 1970s a rural farm house that was used by the military dictatorship of Pinochet...
by Jim McIntosh | Nov 2, 2007 | Observations, Torture |
The judiciary committee of the U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote on the nomination of Mr. Mukasey to be attorney general of the U.S. on Tuesday. His nomination is at risk because of his inability, or, rather, his unwillingness, to say that water boarding is torture....
by Jim McIntosh | May 15, 2004 | Observations, Torture |
The news from the States has been terrible recently. I am able to listen to WAMU via the Internet and sometimes listen to NPR Morning Edition, and I also try to read the New York Times online. The reports on prisoner abuse and now wider reports about CIA...
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