Dick Cheney will waterboard you now.

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CNN reports: CIA interrogators used waterboarding at least 266 times on two top al Qaeda suspects, according to a Bush-era Justice Department memo released by the Obama administration. The controversial technique that simulates drowning — and which President Obama calls torture — was used at least 83 times in August 2002 on suspected al Qaeda [...]

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My friend Allie pointed out that the Senate Judicial committee hearing of Eric Holder’s nomination to be the first African-American Attorney General took place on Martin Luther King’s birthday. Another milestone, quietly noted. The biggest news coming out of the hearing is that Holder acknowledges that “waterboarding is torture.” We’ll hold him to that. Jonathan [...]

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I had already decided that I would not go see Iron Man, because it looked like just another multi-million dollar piece of shit. But David Denby has given my smug leftist heart a moral reason to avoid it altogether: The director, Jon Favreau, and two writing teams, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, and Art Marcum [...]

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Senator Joe Lieberman and SCOTUS Judge Antonin Scalia, having watched too many episodes of “24″, want to leave the “torture” option open just in case that “ticking time bomb” scenario ever comes up. And apparently so does John McCain. Despite his own experiences as a tortured POW, McCain will back a Bush veto of the [...]

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