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I shouldn’t be surprised about this newest outrage; we’ve seen no shortage of it in Iraq from Sadr’s goons.
Chunks of hair waft lazily across the floor in the hot Baghdad breeze.
“This was the torture room,” said Muhanad, the leader of a U.S.-backed armed group that now controls the mosque.
“This is what they used for [...]

Touchy.

Have an unhappy Independence Day! (Photo: Protest Shooter)

While I was stuck in traffic on the way to UStream’s Mountain View offices for the From the Frontlines web-a-thon yesterday, I tuned into the Gitmo interrogation hearing by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Serving as human voo-doo dolls: Berkeley law professor John Yoo, who served in the [...]

On record. Plus: How did McCain vote?

Shocked, shocked.

“The waterboarding lasted about 35 seconds before Abu Zubaida broke down.”

Update 12/8 10:00am Eastern: What Harriet Miers knew.
And Ed Morrissey takes a closer look at what Reps. Silvestre Reyes and Pete Hoekstra say they did and didn’t know.
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Update 1:05pm Eastern. Tom Maguire: “This ongoing selective outrage by the Congressional overseers is ridiculous.”
Par for the course.
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It’s the top news at Memeorandum this morning. The New York [...]

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Don Surber and Wretchard at The Belmont Club note the silence of the human rights crowd and the MSM in regard to the al Qaeda torture manual published at The Smoking Gun. Writes Wretchard:
The problem with the word “torture” is that it has been so artfully corrupted by some commentators that [...]

The human rights group finally releases a statement about the barbaric murders of Privates Menchaca and Tucker. Timestamped 1:36pm EDT:
To: National Desk
Contact: Sharon Singh of Amnesty International USA, 202-544-0200 ext. 289
WASHINGTON, June 21 /U.S. Newswire/ — Larry Cox, Amnesty International USA’s executive director, made the following statement in response to the alleged killing and torture [...]

Jay Leno, Tonight Show (hat tip: reader Kenneth Davis):
The United States has announced a plan tighten all borders by 2008…Unfortunately, Mexico announced a plan to have all their people here by 2007.
Max Boot in today’s Christian Science Monitor:
Remember how exercised everyone around the world was about crimes committed at Abu Ghraib? Infinitely worse deeds are [...]

Unbelievable. A lower Manhattan polling place is surrounded by left-wing propaganda art exploiting Abu Ghraib imagery.
(Hat tip: Little Green Footballs)

“I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?”
– (Seventy-one-year-old) Donald Rumsfeld, in a notation on a 2002 memo about interrogation tactics, which detailed how terrorism detainees may stand for up to four hours.

Power Line’s John Hinderaker takes a closer look at the Associated Press report on how President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld supposedly gave the green light to unleash torture on al Qaeda detainees:
I found this paragraph, near the end of the AP’s account, astonishing:
“[Rumsfeld] approved 24 interrogation techniques, to be used in a manner consistent with [...]

Excellent post by Junkyard Blog on the “Abu Ghraib Bait and Switch.” Go there now!