Comments on: Late Late Nite FDL: Baby Likes To Rock It

By: wigwam

wigwam — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:12:07 +0000

LOL!!

By: wigwam

wigwam — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:11:12 +0000

Me neither. Businesses pay a hell of a lot for “competitive intelligence,” and government officials seems to be for sale on everything else.

By: darkblack

darkblack — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:10:22 +0000

Congratulations, Suzanne - just a driveby, on my way to slumber - welcome to the rain forest.

and America, don’t forget to exorcise your right to vote.

;>)

By: yonodeler

yonodeler — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:08:23 +0000

Somehow I can’t get used to the idea that government-held information about you can’t be used to hurt you unless you’ve done something bad and deserve to be hurt.

By: yonodeler

yonodeler — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:02:44 +0000

“~~envisoned~~ envisioned”

By: yonodeler

yonodeler — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:54 +0000

The Framers, I dare say, never envisoned that citizens would not be able to discover records kept about them individually by the government.

By: newtonusr

newtonusr — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:51:29 +0000

The case against is shaping up. There’s policy weight and depth. Now, we press.
That’s nice work.

nite pups

By: wigwam

wigwam — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:45:03 +0000

Thanks, Newt. It’s a distillation of all that shit I was digging up last night.

By: wigwam

wigwam — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:44:23 +0000

“China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo” By SCOTT SHANE, July 2, 2008:

WASHINGTON — The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.”

What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.

The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and by the Central Intelligence Agency.

[…]

But, we don’t do torture, because that’s not the kind of people we are.

By: newtonusr

newtonusr — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:36:06 +0000

outstanding
highly recommended