Prisoner Torture and abuse - Supporters
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Western Supporters of Prisoner Torture and Abuse

See also "Hate speech catalogue", under section 6- "Hate speech on prisoner abuse".

NOTE: Some stories have multiple entries to give the reader the opportunity to compare differences in coverage between different media organizations, writers, nationalities, etc..

About the links: see bottom of page*

PART I

Prisoner Abuse Condoned, Supported or Protected by Americans in Positions of Authority

(not in chronological order)

2005 Dec-Tortuous Progress: A little honesty in the interrogation debate
(editorial supporting abuse. See also next entry)

2005 Dec- WSJ editorial misrepresented Abu Ghraib abuses, ABC News report

2005 Dec-Death By Torture: US Media Ignores Hard Evidence

2005 Dec-Memo suggests sending militant to nation that uses torture

2005 Dec- Rice moves to clarify U.S. interrogation methods

2005 Dec-President Relents, Backs Torture Ban

2005 Nov- Senate wrests detainee issue from courts

2005 Dec- How we should judge torture

2005 Nov- Senate bars detainees from filing lawsuits

Senator John McCain's Bill of Rights for Terrorists

Serious Lapses Taint Probes of Detainee Deaths

Vice President for Torture

White House Seeks Exception in Abuse Ban

Legalized Torture, Reloaded

License to Torture

U.S. soldiers get off easy for crimes against Iraqis, review finds

Poll on Court Cites Detainee Rights as Concern

A Need for Congress

Guant�namo trials to resume

Congress drops ball on torture charges

WaPo Tortures Its Readers

Pentagon officials say old rules on prisoners don't apply

We have ways of making you talk

Rice 'to talk tough on CIA claim'

Cheney Fights for Detainee Policy

Bush will veto anti-torture law after Senate revolt

Bush White House declares torture vital to US security policy

New York Times whitewashes US torture
HaSM note: NYT has, since the break of the abuse scandal, consistently denounced prisoner torture and abuse.

Teaching Torture: Congress quietly keeps School of the Americas alive

Rationalizing Torture

Detainee Policy Sharply Divides Bush Officials

Rumsfeld Rejects U.N. Access to Guantanamo

U.S. denies U.N. group access to detainees

Australian soldiers taught torture

Senate Approves Limiting Rights of U.S. Detainees

Guantanamo inmates to lose all rights

U.S. Torture and Abuse of Detainees
Human Rights Watch (HRW) web site on toture and abuse of prisoners by the USA. Wide range of reports and documented cases.

PART II

Hate speech on Prisoner abuse

Hannity debated Rosie O'Donnell on Abu Ghraib abuse: no torture or rape, just "underwear on the head of one" prisoner

Stuff Happens! Don't call it torture. It's just a broomstick up the butt.

Limbaugh: prisoner abuse "brilliant"

Hannity & Colmes guest compared U.S. soldiers' maltreatment of Iraqi POWs to "frat hazing"

Rush: MPs Just 'Blowing Off Steam'

Limbaugh on torture of Iraqis: U.S. guards were "having a good time," "blow[ing] some steam off"

It should be "Hate Radio"

Senator labels abused prisoners 'terrorists'

Senator Critical of Focus on Prisoner Abuse

Senator 'outraged' by reaction to prisoner abuse

Transcript of Senator Inhofe�s Remarks

Inhofe Already! (condeming Inhofe)

Senator Zell Miller agrees with Senator Inhofe!

Senator Zell Miller: The National Act of Contrition

Limbaugh claimed his Abu Ghraib comments "represent the views of the average American leftist"

Fox's Hunt: Judge who ordered release of torture photos should be "drawn and quartered"

Pentagon officials say old rules on prisoners don't apply

Guantanamo Loses Five-Star Rating

Links last revised December 2007

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