Arraignment Set for Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales

Photo from source, Telegraph UK

I'm still sure that this will come to nothing. We'll have to wait for karma to take care of Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, and the rest of the Bush Administration. But for now, the headline is what I've got, and I simply can't resist it.

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Arraignment set for Cheney, Gonzales in prisoner abuse case

Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center. . .

Read more at: Raw Story

And more at: Telegraph UK

Are We or Are We Not in the Business of Torture?

The White House has asserted, time and again that they are not "about torture." Even today, White House Press Secretary, Dana Perino, denied it one more time, in the face of this story. The denials are becoming less and less convincing, at least to me. See what you think.

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Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations

When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations.

But soon after Alberto R. Gonzales’s arrival as attorney general in February 2005, the Justice Department issued another opinion, this one in secret. It was a very different document, according to officials briefed on it, an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency. . .

Read this explosive--and lengthy--report at: NYTimes.com