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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
It's over and has been for more than year since Congress legalized torture. Did you think the Congress was going to stop illegal wiretaps and allow the phone companies to be held responsible by law? As Ray McGovern pointed out, Pelosi and the other Democrats were in on legalizing torture from the beginning and have been giving out retroactive immunity ever since. If Democrats really wanted a return to constitutional government, why haven't they even tried to repeal the MCA? The reason is plain as day: For all their protests to the contrary (just enough to get money from liberals online), they support torture and illegal wiretapping.
Benjamin Franklin said we'd have a republic as long as we chose to keep it, but once a people became corrupt, despotism was inevitable, since that's the only kind of government suitable for corrupted people. We chose not to keep it and it's been dead since MCA was passed. Once Congress legalizes wiretapping, can we at least give our dead republic a decent burial? It's starting to go putrid.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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