Tag: Waterboarding

Over the weekend, Green Beret Tim Kennedy, a former mixed martial arts fighter, livestreamed the 41-minute footage, which shows him being voluntarily waterboarded and answering questions between sessions. He claimed it proved waterboarding was not torture. Ok, I didn’t watch the video…I read the article. Waterboarding is not torture. Horse…

In an op-ed piece in The Telegraph, Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, warned former U.S. President George W. Bush, who has openly admitted to authorizing torture, to keep his book tour on this side of the Atlantic: It is not yet clear whether George W Bush is planning to…

Joshua Tabor, a U.S. soldier at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Washington has been arrested and charged with assault after he admitted to police to having waterboarded his four year-old daughter because she was unable to recite the alphabet. Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique…

Watch Chicago radio personality Eric “Mancow” Muller get waterboarded: Now keep in mind Mancow has previously said on his show that he didn’t believe waterboarding was torture. It’s funny how one’s opinion changes once they’ve experienced waterboarding. H/T to James Rowen.

For weeks, former Vice President Dick Cheney has been making the rounds on television to defend the Bush administration’s torture program, and during his media blitz, Cheney has been citing two CIA memos as proof that torture works as a method of obtaining intelligence. However, during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee…

I’ve spent a little time here on Blogging Blue talking about waterboarding, and I’ve made it clear I believe waterboarding is torture. I’ve read the argument that waterboarding can’t be torture since it’s used to train American military forces in SERE training, and I’ve also read the argument that waterboarding…

From the first post at Heartland Hollar comes a novel fundraising idea for Scott Walker’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign, which kicked off this week: s you may know, Scott Walker is “officially” believing in himself as governor again (or did he ever stop) and he is going to need a lot…

Just a warning that this is definitely not safe for work due to language… H/T to Emily Mills over at The Lost Albatross.

Ronald Reagan, an idol to many conservatives, was opposed to torture. In fact, here’s what he said in his signing statement ratifying the UN Convention on Torture from 1984 (emphasis mine): “The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of the Convention . It marks a significant step…

It’s no secret I’m a fan of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, and among the reasons I’m a fan of his is his staunch opposition to the use of toture by the United States, as well as his desire for an investigation into Bush-era torture practices: “Part of what troubles me…