Tag: human rights
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Torture doesn’t work. There has never been much reason to believe that it does. Now Reuters reports that a three-year investigation by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence committee confirms what we already knew: there's little evidence that our so-called “enhanced interrogation” techniques ... Read More
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"The object of torture is torture." As George Orwell wrote in 1984, torture is not a means to an end, it is an end in itself. As I've argued, there's no evidence that torture is a good way to get reliable information out of a prisoner. Nor did the architects of our torture policy show any serious ... Read More
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Last Sunday on ABC's "This Week," former Vice President Dick Cheney told Jonathan Karl that he was "a big supporter of waterboarding." It's a remarkable admission, because waterboarding is—as acceptable as it has become in the media—still clearly illegal. Since Cheney sat on the National Security ... Read More
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