A ramping up in abuse since Obama elected.

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Friday May 15, 2009 · 7:10 PM PDT

2009/05/15 · 19:10

Apparently, there are still black-shirted, Bush-era goon squads in operation down at Guantanamo. You'd think after all the revelations of detainee mistreatment, humiliation, torture, abuse, murder, and so on, that the Obama adminstration would aim for impeccable standards of detainee treatment as they try to figure out how to close GITMO legally, safely, and above all, with utmost deference to basic human rights for potentially innocent individuals who have been incarcerated for years without charges. You'd be wrong.

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Thursday May 14, 2009 · 4:40 PM PDT

2009/05/14 · 16:40

Update I just realized the date stamp from that story is

Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:50 PM ET

This is hardly surprising. Except that it is. The 9/11 Commission was never credible, and has even been sharply criticized by those who ran it. Even they don't believe their own bullshit. Now, we find out that about one quarter of all of the footnotes for the final report were based on harsh interrogations, aka "torture."

Specifically, the NBC News analysis shows 441 of the more than 1,700 footnotes in the Commission’s Final Report refer to the CIA interrogations. Moreover, most of the information in Chapters 5, 6 and 7 of the Report came from the interrogations. Those chapters cover the initial planning for the attack, the assembling of terrorist cells, and the arrival of the hijackers in the U.S. In total, the Commission relied on more than 100 interrogation reports produced by the CIA. The second round of interrogations sought by the Commission involved more than 30 separate interrogation sessions.

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Sunday May 10, 2009 · 6:05 PM PDT

2009/05/10 · 18:05

Although Harry Reid is said to be Mormon, he remains profoundly agnostic on what is or isn't illegal, immoral, or just plain taboo with respect murder, torture, anal rape, and sodomizing children.

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Wednesday May 06, 2009 · 4:53 PM PDT

2009/05/06 · 16:53

It really tells you something profoundly disturbing about our country when a lawyer in the Office of legal Counsel cribs from a health benefits law to justify torture.

Jack Goldsmith, who succeeded Bybee at OLC, said that Yoo, a former OLC attorney who now teaches at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., arrived at that definition by relying on a statute written in 2000 related to health benefits.

"That statute defined an ‘emergency medical condition’ that warranted certain health benefits as a condition ‘manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain)’ such that the absence of immediate medical care might reasonably be thought to result in death, organ failure, or impairment of bodily function," Goldsmith wrote in his book, The Terror Presidency.

http://onlinejournal.com/...

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Tuesday April 28, 2009 · 3:49 PM PDT

2009/04/28 · 15:49

This is short and sweet. A special prosecutor has been formally requested of Eric Holder by Conyers and Nadler et al.

http://www.pubrecord.org/...

via Benmasel, the other signers:

Robert Scott, , Steve Cohen, , Hank Johnson, , Mel Watt, Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, Robert Wexler, Pedro Pierluisi, Luis Gutierrez, Tammy Baldwin, Anthony Weiner, Linda Sánchez, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Daniel Maffei.

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Thursday April 16, 2009 · 7:03 PM PDT

2009/04/16 · 19:03

Joe Stiglitz told Bloomberg that the bailout was doomed by conflicts of interest.

BREAKING !!!

Not.

The Obama administration’s plan to fix the U.S. banking system is destined to fail because the programs have been designed to help Wall Street rather than create a viable financial system, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said.

"All the ingredients they have so far are weak, and there are several missing ingredients," Stiglitz said in an interview. The people who designed the plans are "either in the pocket of the banks or they’re incompetent."

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Monday April 13, 2009 · 11:02 PM PDT

2009/04/13 · 23:02

I tried to put this into a comment over at Buhdy's joint, Fail. It was intended for NPK.

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Monday April 13, 2009 · 7:21 PM PDT

2009/04/13 · 19:21

Apparently, Scott Horton has sources (in Spain of all places):

Spanish prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal investigation targeting former U.S. attorney general Alberto Gonzales and five top associates over their role in the torture of five Spanish citizens held at Guantánamo, several reliable sources close to the investigation have told The Daily Beast. Their decision is expected to be announced on Tuesday before the Spanish central criminal court, the Audencia Nacional, in Madrid. But the decision is likely to raise concerns with the human rights community on other points: they will seek to have the case referred to a different judge.

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Tuesday March 03, 2009 · 2:23 PM PST

2009/03/03 · 14:23

I’m reproducing this interview of Susan Lindauer by Michael Collins in full, with permission, because "no one could have predicted..." It makes a nice bookend to the revelation that we’ve been living in a dictatorship for the past eight years.

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Monday March 02, 2009 · 4:10 PM PST

2009/03/02 · 16:10

Former Secretary of the Treasury and chief of staff to Saint Ronnie, and Secretary of State under G.H.W. Bush, and all around nice guy, James Baker, says that the way to avoid "zombie banks" is to kill them.

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Wednesday February 18, 2009 · 4:49 PM PST

2009/02/18 · 16:49

Alan Greenspan wants limited bank nationalization?

The former Fed chairman said temporary government ownership would "allow the government to transfer toxic assets to a bad bank without the problem of how to price them."

But he cautioned that holders of senior debt – bonds that would be paid off before other claims – might have to be protected even in the event of nationalisation.

"You would have to be very careful about imposing any loss on senior creditors of any bank taken under government control because it could impact the senior debt of all other banks," he said. "This is a credit crisis and it is essential to preserve an anchor for the financing of the system. That anchor is the senior debt."

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Sunday February 15, 2009 · 5:20 PM PST

2009/02/15 · 17:20

If you like being rolled in a dark alley with the full complement of assault, battery, and robbery, then savagely kicked into destitution, you're gonna flip your lid for Tim Geithner's plan, says Chuck Schumer (D-Wall Street).

Some say Geithner's plan is light on details, downright "sketchy," because it's pretty hard to break the news to regular folks that they're getting shafted for another several trillion dollars to cover the gambling losses of the uber-rich. Not so, says Chuck Schumer (D-Wall Street). Chuck Schumer (D-Wall Street) says you're gonna love Geithner's plan, whenever the details get released. Chuck even goes into some detail himself: A little bit of this, a little bit of that, each bit of this or that tailored to precise specifications for each completely insolvent institution, not a "one size fits all" sorta thing. That's where Hank Paulson and Friends went wrong: One size fits all. C'mon, take the damned money already, everybody! Geithner's "Son of Hank" plan ain't like that at all. There are simply too many ways to become utterly insolvent for that kind of thing. "Son of Hank" definitely involves this, that, and maybe even the other thing.

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Special prosecutor formally requested (Updated).

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Spanish prosecutors to move ahead?

No one could have predicted.

James Baker: Kill the Zombie Banks!

Nationalize properties, not banks.

Chuck Schumer (D-Wall Street): You're gonna love Geithner's plan.