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Krauthammer: Obama, Bush, and the torture show trials

By Jim Vicevich / April 22, 2009 /

When the young President changed his mind in less than 48 hours in regard to prosecuting lawyers and Bush Administration officials who authorized enhanced interrogation techniques, it caused confusion even among the White House Press Corps (no jokes please). So why, after sending out your chief of staff on Sunday and your press secretary on Monday, to make…

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…

In Norway, “isolation is torture” for mass murderer

By Steve McGough / August 23, 2012 /

Almost speechless. Norway’s mass killer – who killed 77 people 13 months ago after setting off a bomb in Oslo and moving on to a teen camp where he went on a shooting rampage – is being moved to a high security prison area that features more than 250 square feet of living space, with…

Pelosi Denies Reports: “I did not know about torture.” UPDATE: Hoekstra “Pelosi Knew”

By Jim Vicevich / April 23, 2009 /

UPDATE: You can hear Speaker Pelosi’s comments for yourself below … but Congressman Peter Hoekstra says either the Speaker was asleep or she just wasn’t paying attention because the intelligence briefing laid it all out. Asleep or not paying attention, either way, with Nancy in charge … we are doomed.