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Awesome Clip about Torture from TYT

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Rice: Nazis were less of a threat to the U.S. than al Qaeda; SCOTUS wouldn’t let us try detainees. – www.ThinkProgress.org

Speaking with a group of Stanford students Monday, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared that al Qaeda is a greater threat to the United States than Nazi Germany was because Germany “never attacked the homeland of the United States.” In a defensive exchange with a student, she also insisted that the Bush administration had always wanted to hold trials for detainees, but the Supreme Court wouldn’t let them:

RICE: Now, the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] also had access to Guantanamo. And they made no allegations about interrogations in Guantanamo. What they did say was that indefinite detention, where people didn’t know whether they’d come up for trial — which is why we tried under the military commissions system to let people come up for trial. Those trials were stayed by who? Who kept us from holding the trials?

STUDENT: I can’t answer that question.

RICE: Do your homework first. … It was the Supreme Court.

Of course, the Supreme Court “stayed” the Bush administration’s military commissions because they were woefully inadequate. The Court — three separate times — required the administration to come up with meaningful judicial review of suspects’ detentions. Indeed, last June the court held that military commissions “are not an adequate and effective substitute for habeas corpus” and thus “operates as an unconstitutional suspension of the writ.”

–By Ali Frick on Apr 30th, 2009 at 12:53 pm

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/30/rice-military-commissions/

Condi Rice Pulls a Nixon: If the President Orders Torture, It Must be Legal

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WH Torture Program’s Purpose: To Find A Justification For War In Iraq Before War Began Pt 1 of 2

Part 1 of 2 – On the Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel talks with Ron Suskind about the White House torture program, created before the war in Iraq began for the purpose of finding a link between 9/11 and Saddam Hussein, in order to justify attacking Iraq. Part 1 of 2. (from keithmsnbcer on YouTube) See part 2 below.

WH Torture Program’s Purpose: To Find A Justification For War In Iraq Before War Began Pt 2 of 2

On the Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel talks with Ron Suskind about the White House ordered torture program, created before the war in Iraq began for the purpose of finding a link between 9/11 and Saddam Hussein, in order to justify attacking Iraq. Part 2 of 2. 4/22/09 (from keithmsnbcer on YouTube)

“Tea Bagging” – GOPers Protest the cut on Corporate Taxes?

Make sure to check out Lawrence O’Donnell’s comments at 2:45 in the video