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Pennsylvania: David Addington

July 3, 2009 - 05:54 am
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Iranian Torture

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

Via Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish, we learn of this tweet:
Tehrani source close to those detained says some have been beaten heavily and waterboarded with hot water
To which CB at the Dish writes:
Andrew recently stated, "The Tehran regime does not have a record of waterboarding." Could this then be a new development? If so, Ahmadinejad will clearly want to invoke the "Americans did it first!" argument. Sadly, he would be right - regardless of the fact that Iran's torture record is far more brutal and far less justifiable than Cheney's. But he and Yoo have blurred the bright line forever.
OF COURSE (and I write this to pre-empt any sort of "he's making a moral equivalence" argument) Iran's torture is far more brutal than Bush/Cheney's.

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April 13, 2009 - 10:04 pm
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Maybe SOMEONE Will Prosecute

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

Someone in Spain:
Spanish prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal investigation targeting former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five top associates over their role in the torture of five Spanish citizens held at Guantánamo, several reliable sources close to the investigation have told The Daily Beast. Their decision is expected to be announced on Tuesday before the Spanish central criminal court, the Audencia Nacional, in Madrid. But the decision is likely to raise concerns with the human-rights community on other points: They will seek to have the case referred to a different judge.

The six defendants—in addition to Gonzales, Federal Appeals Court Judge and former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, University of California law professor and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, former Defense Department general counsel and current Chevron lawyer William J.

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