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Face the Nation – Schieffer thinks waterboarding similar to chopping off heads

By Steve McGough / May 11, 2009 /

I’m not going to let this stand. Does the left really think that if they keep saying it over and over again it will be true? Bob Shieffer interviewed Vice President Dick Cheney on Face the Nation Sunday morning and tried – once again – to warp the Bush administration’s enhanced interrogation techniques into being…

Torture memos: NOT a dark and painful chapter in our history

By Steve McGough / April 17, 2009 /

Twenty-four hours have passed since the so-called torture memos have been released and as I expected, it’s not a story that has gone viral. Plenty of coverage, but not oh-my-God kind of coverage.

Guantanamo detainees in the US and enhanced interrogation techniques

By Steve McGough / March 27, 2009 /

Two bits of news from President Obama’s intelligence chief and attorney general in the past week. First, the administration is considering releasing some inmates here in the United States. Second, the Obama administration is considering “enhanced interrogation techniques” when questioning terrorists.

24 … in real life

By Jim Vicevich / January 11, 2009 /

I’ll have more to say on this tomorrow. George W. Bush responding to a question from Brit Hume on Fox News Sunday today … would the nation be in danger if the next president did not have all interrogation tools at his disposal? The president’s answer is critical and I think Obama understands this already.…

The Prosecutor In Chief?

By Jim Vicevich / January 11, 2009 /

It does not surpirse me this is the AFP’s headline … US President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday he was not ruling out possible prosecution for abuses committed under the George Bush administration, saying no one “is above the law”. “We’re still evaluating how we’re going to approach the whole issue of interrogations, detentions, and so…

Ensign to Matthews: We put our Navy SEALs through worse

By Jim Vicevich / April 23, 2009 /

Any investigation into the Bush Administration authorization of enhanced interrogation will center on the definition of torture. The left will try to define torture as anything above a coercive conversation and in so doing will be able to position Bush officials as law breakers or “war criminals”. The jumping off point will be a Carl Levin report…

Federal court order results in release of Bush interrogation memos

By Steve McGough / April 16, 2009 /

The Obama administration will release interrogation memos written by Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel lawyers during President George W. Bush’s administration. A federal court required the Obama administration to release them or to provide a good reason to withhold them in response to an ACLU lawsuit. My guess is that the documents may drop…

Bush administration wiretap plan good to go

By Steve McGough / January 15, 2009 / Comments Off on Bush administration wiretap plan good to go

Remember that question on This Week with George Stephanopoulos about wiretapping and the prosecution of George W. Bush’s gravest crimes? With about 120 hours left in the current administration, a federal intelligence court has ruled that it is perfectly fine for the Executive branch to wiretap/intercept international phone calls and e-mails without a specific court order, even if American citizens…

Cheney’s request to declassify documents: denied

By Steve McGough / May 14, 2009 /

Lots of enhanced interrogation technique (EIT) information floating about news circles today, so I’ll add one more. After the release of the four so-called torture memo a few weeks ago, Cheney officially requested the Obama administration release two memos that showed what intelligence was gathered from detainees after the use of the EITs. The request…

Game on! Bush torture memo prosecutions NOT off the table UPDATE: Thompson Speaks

By Jim Vicevich / April 21, 2009 /

UPDATE: Fred Thompson weighs in on the whole matter here. (via instapundit)