What People Are Talking About: Torture
Hot Topicstags: torture, waterboarding, CIA
The Water Torture—Facsimile of a woodcut in J. Damhoudère's Praxis Rerum Criminalium, Antwerp, 1556. (Wikipedia)
News
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Powell aide says torture helped build Iraq war case
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Philip Zelikow testifies that US adopted torture as a practice under Bush
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Historians sponsor petition to protest John Yoo's legal opinions on torture
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Obama says Churchill didn't torture even in WW II (with dissenting views)
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CIA ignored warnings from soldiers that torture would not work
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Eric Holder visits torture site--a very historic one
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Spanish judge opens new probe into Guantanamo torture
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Obama official: Torture worked
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Salon.com: Torture planning began in 2001, Senate report reveals
- "Torturing Democracy" Wins RFK Journalism Award
Commentary
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Glenn Melancon: Who Would Jesus Torture?
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Harold H. Bruff: Lawyers Should Punish the Torture Lawyers
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Deepak Tripathi: Review of Christopher Pyle’s Getting Away with Torture: Secret Government, War Crimes, and the Rule of Law
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Andrew Roberts: How Torture Helped Win WWII
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Don Williams: Shout it from the rooftops--Al-Libi--keep his torture story alive
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Alfred W. McCoy: America's Political Paralysis Over Torture
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Noam Chomsky: The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia
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Robert W. Thurston: The History of Torture Shows It Does Not Work
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Edwin G. Burrows: Why Obama's Right to Claim that Torturing Prisoners Is Un-American
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Harold H. Bruff Lawyers Should Punish the Torture Lawyers
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Liam Brockey Tortured Debate: Why the Media Should Stop Referring to the Inquisition
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William Loren Katz: Tortured Reasoning and Tortured Results
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William J. Astore: American Torture: No Knowledge of History, No Sense of Tragedy
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Robert Brent Toplin Punish Torture? Hollywood's Answer.
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Juan Cole: Obama Reversal on Torture Photos ... Is He Afraid they would Destabilize Iraq?
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