Inquirer defends the indefensible: A monthly column by torture architect John Yoo
It was Yoo's immoral guidance that aided the United States in sanctioning the torture practice known as waterboarding -- used in the Spanish Inquisition, by despots such as Pol Pot and by Chinese Communists in the Korean War to obtain false confessions from Americans -- as well as slamming detainees into walls, part of a harsh interrogation regime that has been linked to the deaths of at least a dozen U.S, detainees and possibly more. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Control of the media by the right wing rich endangers the idea of an informed democracy.