The Washington Post's Support For Torture

(Blog Post) In the latest release from those in the Bush administration and CIA who authorized and supported America's torture of prisoners of war, we get the following story today in the Washington Post. It details that Khaled Sheikh Mohammed gave up a ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Aug 29, 2009 - 2:38 PM PDT
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Aug 31, 2009 - 9:30 PM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 31, 2009

Sullivan focuses upon the Washington Post for their defense of war crimes.

Perhaps the Post is morphing into a copy of the moony paper across town.

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by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Sep. 6, 2009

In the perfect world the media is unbiased. This article does honor the media as exposing a specific media outlet of twisting, at a minimum, the truth.

An eye opener!! Anyone who relies on the Washington post needs to read this, so they will think twice before accepting a Washington Post article as unbiased; at least read a second article on the subject.

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Aug. 30, 2009

They refuse to use the word “torture” for an act that is memorialized in Cambodia’s museum of torture. That’s how deeply the Washington Post is ... More »

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by Randy Morrow - Aug. 30, 2009

There is absolutely no reason for the Post to give him anonymity, except to promote the neoconservative project of torture as the core means for the war against ... More »

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