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This is from a post at Tennessee Guerilla Women.

Will wonders never cease? Bushie can’t recollect being told about the CIA tapes. The Decider says he simply has no recollection whatsoever. High crimes and misdemeanors are just so very easy to forget. We are still waiting for Madame Speaker to jog Bushie’s memory. How many high crimes and misdemeanors will it take for you to act, Madame Speaker?

No word yet on whether Harriet Miers can recall the CIA’s intentional destruction of the tapes that documented the severe interrogation — aka TORTURE! — of two al Qaeda operatives, but ABC News says Harriet Miers knew:

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This is from a post at Blue Girl, Red State.

On the day that House and Senate negotiators reached agreement on legislation that will codify in law the prohibition of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation torture methods when interrogating suspected terrorists; CIA director Michael Hayden came clean and admitted that the CIA had destroyed video evidence of “harsh interrogation techniques” employed in the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah (yet another top lieutenant of ObL – but aren’t they all?) and another unnamed suspected high-ranking al Qa’eda member. (Zubaydah is one of three suspects who has been identified as having been waterboarded. Waterboarding, in case you have been under a rock for the last two years, is not just a “dunk in the water” as that bastard Cheney so glibly put it. It is controlled drowning.)

From the Washington Post: All the tapes were destroyed in November 2005 on the order of Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., then the CIA’s director of clandestine operations, officials said. The destruction came after the Justice Department had told a federal judge in the case of al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui that the CIA did not possess videotapes of a specific set of interrogations sought by his attorneys. A CIA spokesman said yesterday that the request would not have covered the destroyed tapes.

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This is from a post at Ramblings of a Madwoman.

Am I romanticizing history? Wasn’t there a time in this country when people stood for their beliefs, and when something was blatantly morally wrong, they said so?

Waterboarding is torture. The U.S. military knows it, and bans the practice. The U.S. government knows it — after World War II we prosecuted Japanese soldiers for waterboarding American prisoners of war.

Yet yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm a man as U.S. Attorney General who would not state that waterboarding is torture.

I am happy to say that my senators, Mikulski and Cardin, both voted against Mukasey’s confirmation.

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I am disgusted to report that several presidential hopefuls simply did not vote:

• Clinton
• Obama
• Dodd
• Biden
• McCain

Six democrats and the president’s BFF, Joe Lieberman, voted to confirm. See how your senator voted here.

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This is from a post I found at the Mosquito Blog.

My take: It seems we are living in a country where the few people brave enough to stand-up to the Bush-Cheney administration, are simply silenced…A country where freedom of speech is mocked, and torture accepted. Is this still our country? Is this still the “United” States of America? I’m beginning to wonder. How does this video make you feel?

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If only we had people running for office that understood Americans as well as Keith Olbermann. The Washington Lieber-crats–Feinstein, and Schumer–better watch out. You are playing with an angry fire when you decide to become accomplices with the criminal and treasonous acts of Bush and Cheney.

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