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    <title>Trump, 79, forgets who is with him on Pittsburgh trip as rambling talk includes unlikely Unabomber story | The Independent</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-18T11:54:03+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I will admit that my gut reaction to reading this is to feel bad for our university president.  (That may be reaction may be misguided or even perverse.)  He strikes me as a decent man  and a faithful steward of institutions who felt he had to swallow something foul to avert the malign attention of the Eye of Sauron falling upon us, but I doubt he realized just how hard this would be to choke down.]]></description>
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    <title>A Guantanamo Guard And His Detainee Reunite : NPR</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-11T19:25:20+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The man must be some kind of saint.]]></description>
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    <title>Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo | Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-26T16:35:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This searing memoir shares the trauma and triumphs of Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir's time inside America's most notorious prison.
"Lakhdar and Mustafa were living quiet, peaceful lives in Bosnia when, in October 2001, they were arrested and accused of participating in a terrorist plot. After a three-month investigation uncovered no evidence, all charges were dropped and Bosnian courts ordered their freedom. However, under intense U.S. pressure, Bosnian officials turned them over to American soldiers. They were flown blindfolded and shackled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they were held in outdoor cages for weeks as the now-infamous military prison was built around them.
"Guantanamo became their home for the next seven years. They endured torture and harassment and force-feedings and beatings, all the while not knowing if they would ever see their families again. They had no opportunity to argue their innocence until 2008, when the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in their case, Boumediene v. Bush, confirming Guantanamo detainees' constitutional right to challenge their detention in federal court. Weeks later, the George W. Bush–appointed federal judge who heard their case, stunned by the absence of evidence against them, ordered their release. Now living in Europe and rebuilding their lives, Lakhdar and Mustafa are finally free to share a story that every American ought to know."]]></description>
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    <title>Why Torture Doesn't Work — Shane O'Mara | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-13T17:07:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane O’Mara writes in this account of the human brain under stress, another reason torture should never be condoned is because it does not work the way torturers assume it does.
"In countless films and TV shows such as Homeland and 24, torture is portrayed as a harsh necessity. If cruelty can extract secrets that will save lives, so be it. CIA officers and others conducted torture using precisely this justification. But does torture accomplish what its defenders say it does? For ethical reasons, there are no scientific studies of torture. But neuroscientists know a lot about how the brain reacts to fear, extreme temperatures, starvation, thirst, sleep deprivation, and immersion in freezing water, all tools of the torturer’s trade. These stressors create problems for memory, mood, and thinking, and sufferers predictably produce information that is deeply unreliable—and, for intelligence purposes, even counterproductive. As O’Mara guides us through the neuroscience of suffering, he reveals the brain to be much more complex than the brute calculations of torturers have allowed, and he points the way to a humane approach to interrogation, founded in the science of brain and behavior.
"Torture may be effective in forcing confessions, as in Stalin’s Russia. But if we want information that we can depend on to save lives, O’Mara writes, our model should be Napoleon: “It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.”"]]></description>
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    <title>Is Obama a great president? Not so fast.</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-15T03:32:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://theweek.com/articles/532941/obama-great-president-fast</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This was what I was worried about back in 2008, that the security state was so locked in, and what domestic opposition there is to it so politically negligible, that very little would shift for the better, certainly not so much that we'd not disgrace ourselves again the next time there was a crisis.  Which seems like where we are.  (ObHistoricalAnalogy: the combination of expanding the welfare state at home and disgraceful militarism brings to mind LBJ, but both are somehow muted.)]]></description>
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    <title>Brad DeLong : A Question for Harold Hongju Koh on Changes Over the Last Nine Centuries in the Law of Outlawry...</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-04T22:19:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Today, by contrast, in order to be outlawed—and thus in order to have your death commanded not just by blade or bow or gun but by teleoperated robot drone—there needs to be no public process by which you are commanded and offered the opportunity under the king’s peace to surrender and publicly defend yourself at five different successive county sessions. Instead, all that has to happen is that the high functionaries of the President, men and women not bound to others by feudal ties of mutual obligation or republican ties of election and representation but simply chosen at the President’s pleasure to sit on the National Security Council, in secret proceeding without judicial or other scrutiny, put your name on a list. And if you are a minor? Then a high functionary of the President will say, with a straight face, that you “should have chosen a better father” than one who was himself outlawed.
"This is not a good trend in the rule of law as applied to outlawry that we have seen since the thirteenth century, is it?
"What steps have you taken while in government to reverse this trend, and return the law of outlawry to something that would not have caused the justiciars of Henry III to raise their eyebrows and suggest that we remember what the common law is?"]]></description>
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    <title>What Won’t Change (I) | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-05T22:00:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/11/05/what-wont-change-i/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tim Burke articulates my fears (not convictions, yet).]]></description>
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    <title>What You Can Say While Being Objective | Wintry Smile</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-25T00:34:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hyperpapeterie.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/what-you-can-say-while-being-objective/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What would an objective article on waterboarding have looked like during the Bush administration? A history of the practice would have to state that the US government considered it torture for several decades and that this status was essentially unquestioned until after September 11th. It would also record that the US had hanged Japanese soldiers for waterboarding US POWs, and perhaps that as Governor of Texas, Bush had imprisoned a sheriff for waterboarding a prisoner. It would describe the experience of being waterboarded as essentially like the experience of being drowned, and record that there were often lingering psychological effects. Against that, such an article would have to report that legal memoranda had argued that waterboarding was not torture and was legal. It might also report that some people responded to the September 11th attacks by arguing that even torture should be justified as a response to terrorism.

"That article would have been objective in even the restrictive sense that the American media uses. Every claim is not only true, but unambiguous and part of the public record.

"And I don’t recall seeing anything like that during the Bush era. Individual claims might appear in an article about the waterboarding debate, but I never remember seeing a single article that would give the  full picture. 

"Journalists are sometimes criticized for treating both sides of any disagreement as equally respectable, even if the facts are squarely on one side. But we can see that it’s not just that–the media won’t even collect and report facts that aren’t in dispute, if the net effect would be to undermine the claims of one side."]]></description>
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    <title>The Way the Present Was § Unqualified Offerings</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-11T20:58:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2011/09/09/13532</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Bliss it was in that atrocity to be alive, but to be on the internet was very heaven."
]]></description>
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    <title>The Years of Shame - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-11T16:02:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/the-years-of-shame/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it."
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/why-dick-cheney-left-office-unpopular-and-reviled/244306/">
    <title>Remembering Why We Loathe Dick Cheney - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-30T15:58:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/why-dick-cheney-left-office-unpopular-and-reviled/244306/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Dick Cheney was a self-aggrandizing criminal who used his knowledge as a Washington insider to subvert both informed public debate about matters of war and peace and to manipulate presidential decisionmaking, sometimes in ways that angered even George W. Bush. 
After his early years of public service, he capitalized on connections he made while being paid by taxpayers to earn tens of millions of dollars presiding over Halliburton. While there, he did business with corrupt Arab autocrats, including some in countries that were enemies of the United States. Upon returning to government, he advanced a theory of the executive that is at odds with the intentions of the founders, successfully encouraged the federal government to illegally spy on innocent Americans, passed on to the public false information about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and became directly complicit in a regime of torture for which he should be in jail."
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/a-bit-more-on-liberalism-and-detention-or-what-if-private-manning-confesses/">
    <title>A Bit More on Liberalism and Detention, or: What If Private Manning Confesses? « Rortybomb</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-17T00:56:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/a-bit-more-on-liberalism-and-detention-or-what-if-private-manning-confesses/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lots to say here... For the moment, cf. Gellner on procedural justification as part of the core of liberalism.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>torture justice procedures_vs_substance liberalism rortybomb our_national_shame authoritarianism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:76ba5cb33829/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/04/did-you-see-john-yoos-easter-sunday-op-ed.html">
    <title>Did You See John Yoo's Easter Sunday Op-Ed?</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-04T21:00:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/04/did-you-see-john-yoos-easter-sunday-op-ed.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Did You See John Yoo's Easter Sunday Op-Ed?  In the Washington Post: "Crucifixion is legal when ordered by the president in his role as commander-in-chief of the armed forces.""
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming yoo.john delong.brad our_national_shame torture running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.slate.com/id/2246692">
    <title>A former military interrogator unearths the errors and fear-mongering in Marc Thiessen's Courting Disaster. - By Matthew Alexander - Slate Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-06T17:23:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/id/2246692</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["My gut reaction on reading Marc Thiessen's new book ... was: "Why is a speechwriter who's never served in the military or intelligence community acting as an expert on interrogation and national security?" Certainly, everyone is entitled to a voice in the debate over the lawfulness and efficacy of President Bush's abusive interrogation program, regardless of qualifications. But if you're not an expert on a subject, shouldn't you interview experts before expressing an opinion? Instead, Thiessen relies solely on the opinions of the CIA interrogators who used torture and abuse and are thus most vulnerable to prosecution for war crimes. That makes his book less a serious discussion of interrogation policy than a literary defense of war criminals. Nowhere in this book will you find the opinions of experienced military interrogators who successfully interrogated Islamic extremists.... Courting Disaster is nothing more than the defense's opening statement in a war crimes trial."
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/02/american_takfiris.php">
    <title>American Takfiris - Ta-Nehisi Coates</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-21T18:38:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/02/american_takfiris.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A. Serwer on the analogy between Yoo and the other torture-memo lawyers and Fadl and the others who cooked up "apostasy" as an excuse for Muslim terrorism.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>terrorism al-qaeda our_national_shame torture yoo.john</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/02/no-one-expects-the-spanish-inquisition.php">
    <title>Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-09T00:27:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/02/no-one-expects-the-spanish-inquisition.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>moral_depravity torture the_continuing_crises our_national_shame running_dogs_of_reaction yglesias.matthew</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1d78836a6103/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-the-guantanamo-gift-shop-by-spencer-ackerman">
    <title>The End of the 00s: The Guantanamo Gift Shop, by Spencer Ackerman | The Awl</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-23T00:21:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-the-guantanamo-gift-shop-by-spencer-ackerman</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most horrifying thing I have read this year.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>our_national_shame torture guantanamo the_continuing_crises whats_gone_wrong_with_america ackerman.spencer to:blog</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/011632.html">
    <title>Making Light: September 11</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-11T21:30:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/011632.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Today marks a grim anniversary, a day when a few fanatics, equipped and secretly encouraged by foreign ideologues, struck a violent blow against normal, civil, democratic society. In the years that followed, the events of that day led to further tragedy, as a once-civilized country turned to the widespread practice of torture. Perhaps now at last we can gain some perspective on this history, and better understand what the defense of a democratic society demands of us.  --- Today is also the anniversary of an attack on New York City and Washington, DC."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_continuing_crises the_nightmare_from_which_we_are_trying_to_awake 9/11 chile american_hegemony moral_responsibility our_national_shame nielsen_hayden.patrick</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:687a4ec6bc8b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/torture-an-unnecessary-post-part-two-the-prehistory-edition/">
    <title>Torture…An Unnecessary Post, Part Two (The prehistory edition) « The Inverse Square Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-20T20:48:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/torture-an-unnecessary-post-part-two-the-prehistory-edition/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>torture our_national_shame history_of_law</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ef6dda7f46df/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/exeunt-all-including-hero-agent/">
    <title>EXEUNT ALL. Including HERO AGENT. « The Edge of the American West</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-05T13:49:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/exeunt-all-including-hero-agent/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["You know, were I the guy whose unit failed to capture a seventy-year-old, two meter tall man on kidney dialysis, I wouldn’t be mentioning that as proof of my skills in intelligence gathering."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>torture our_national_shame utter_stupidity the_continuing_crises schuerer.michael</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:79b8b4daf32c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/some_truths_abo/?ref=fp2">
    <title>Guest Post by Lawrence Wilkerson: Some Truths About Guantanamo Bay - The Washington Note</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-27T17:31:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/some_truths_abo/?ref=fp2</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The "mosaic philosophy" bit in particular is so crazy that "utter stupidity" is hardly adequate.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>torture our_national_shame utter_stupidity the_continuing_crises running_dogs_of_reaction terrorism_fears intelligence_(spying)</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1137d03e650f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/02/i-never-thought-i-would-grow-up-to-be-the-kind-of-crank-who-wrote-letters-to-the-chancellor-trying-to-get-my-colleagues-fired.html#comments">
    <title>I Never Thought I Would Grow Up to Be the Kind of Crank Who Wrote Letters to the Chancellor Trying to Get My Colleagues Fired...</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-18T02:18:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/02/i-never-thought-i-would-grow-up-to-be-the-kind-of-crank-who-wrote-letters-to-the-chancellor-trying-to-get-my-colleagues-fired.html#comments</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>yoo.john delong.brad our_national_shame torture war_crimes moral_responsibility academic_freedom</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:716b2b687202/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/25456948/what_obama_must_do/print">
    <title>What Obama Must Do : Krugman</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-21T13:45:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/25456948/what_obama_must_do/print</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Krugman's long-form take on what Obama should do, domestically, in year 1.  Where do I sign up to help pressure Obama to do all this?

(And, in a "why oh why can't have a better press" moment, why does our leading public intellectual have to publish this in Rolling Stone, of all places?)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics mortgage_crisis economic_policy political_advice political_economy macroeconomics federal_reserve unions progressive_forces krugman.paul obama.barack corruption our_national_shame the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:774b2874b779/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.samefacts.com/archives/torture_/2009/01/a_modest_proposal_for_dealing_with_the_torture_problem.php">
    <title>The Reality-Based Community: A modest proposal for dealing with the torture problem</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-12T20:32:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.samefacts.com/archives/torture_/2009/01/a_modest_proposal_for_dealing_with_the_torture_problem.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Who hasn't been thinking this?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_continuing_crises creeping_authoritarianism our_national_shame running_dogs_of_reaction torture us_politics modest_proposals kleiman.mark</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/feel-my-truth/">
    <title>ATTACKERMAN » Feel My Truth</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-21T04:08:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/feel-my-truth/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["McClatchy is truly the most badass MSM crew there is. Marisa Taylor actually wrote a piece that will appear in newspapers across this great country about prosecuting Bush for war crimes."
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<item rdf:about="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/11/what_to_do_with_war_criminals.php">
    <title>Matthew Yglesias » What to do With War Criminals</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-25T18:20:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/11/what_to_do_with_war_criminals.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yes: "I’m half inclined to say there should be neither truth nor reconciliation. Instead, George W. Bush should be kidnapped, drugged, flown to Spain in an unmarked plane, and wake up on the streets of Madrid tied up with a bunch of files and evidence pinned to his chest so Judge Garzón can sort the whole thing out. If anyone asks how that happened, deny knowledge and mention “executive privilege.” "
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<item rdf:about="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/29/the_case_for_endless_torture_p/">
    <title>Spencer Ackerman: The Case For Endless Torture Prosecutions</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-01T05:29:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/29/the_case_for_endless_torture_p/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Is it still a witch-hunt if they really are witches?
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502985_pf.html">
    <title>I'm Home, but Still Haunted by Guantanamo</title>
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    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502985_pf.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002373.html">
    <title>Collateral Damage - washingtonpost.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-19T15:46:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002373.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews torture the_continuing_crises vast_right-wing_conspiracy bush.george_w cheney.richard yoo.john war_crimes our_national_shame bacevich.andrew_j. mayer.jane</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=574">
    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » Neither Victims Nor Torturers</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-08T03:21:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=574</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If you had asked me in 1998 what I thought the consequences would be if the United States government was revealed in public to have officially sanctioned torture ... I would have said that this revelation would be an enormous scandal with catastrophic po
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<dc:subject>our_national_shame torture the_continuing_crises decline_of_American_character burke.timothy moral_depravity</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://thepoorman.net/2008/05/07/they-write-letters/">
    <title>They write letters « The Poor Man Institute</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-08T21:39:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thepoorman.net/2008/05/07/they-write-letters/</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/05/the-torture-mem.html">
    <title>Brad DeLong: The Torture Memo and Academic Freedom</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-07T13:29:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/05/the-torture-mem.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/04/did-yoo-and-bybee-violate-canons-of.html">
    <title>Balkinization: Jack Balkin on Yoo</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-14T04:07:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/04/did-yoo-and-bybee-violate-canons-of.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>yoo.john torture moral_depravity our_national_shame balkin.jack_m.</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:93f40d5ebe2c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/04/response-to-dean-edley.html">
    <title>Balkinization: Response to Dean Edley</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-14T04:06:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/04/response-to-dean-edley.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>yoo.john torture moral_depravity our_national_shame horton.scott</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:02cab4d8b181/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=550">
    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » Does the Other Shoe Ever Drop?</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-06T14:50:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=550</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>yoo.john torture our_national_shame war_crimes academic_freedom</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://fromthearchives.blogspot.com/2008/04/maybe-if-he-had-kidnapped-white-girl.html">
    <title>From the archives: Maybe if the country were torturing white girls.</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-06T14:49:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fromthearchives.blogspot.com/2008/04/maybe-if-he-had-kidnapped-white-girl.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>yoo.john our_national_shame torture war_crimes academia academic_freedom</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2008/04/04/what-to-do-with-yoo/">
    <title>Crooked Timber » » What to do with Yoo</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-05T02:41:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2008/04/04/what-to-do-with-yoo/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>yoo.john war_crimes torture our_national_shame the_continuing_crises creeping_authoritarianism moral_responsibility moral_depravity utter_stupidity academic_freedom delong.brad running_dogs_of_reaction kantorowicz.ernst</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ca9a6871d75f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/04/the_yoo_coverup.php">
    <title>Matthew Yglesias : The Yoo Coverup</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-03T00:52:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/04/the_yoo_coverup.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Impeach them.  Impeach them now.
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002387">
    <title>&quot;Six Questions for Darius Rejali, Author of ‘Torture and Democracy’&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-16T07:13:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002387</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>torture america iran the_continuing_crises democracy liberalism our_national_shame horton.scott rejali.darius</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:cffab33d98d1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.brennancenter.org/content/pages/fixing_democracy">
    <title>Dahlia Lithwick: Close Guantanamo</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-12T19:25:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.brennancenter.org/content/pages/fixing_democracy</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Close it down. Move the remaining prisoners stateside and give them trials. Torch the camp. Issue a press release. And walk away."
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    <title>Balkinization: How Low Can They Go?</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-04T15:45:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[White House Office of Legal Counsel lawyer has _himself_ water-boarded to see if it is in fact torture; concludes that it is; writes opinion to that effect; gets fired by Gonzalez.
]]></description>
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