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Has the GOP Become the Pro-Torture Party?

Elite conservatives are all arguing for torture, and the rank-and-file may be following along.

Incredibly, the torture advocates still claim that Jose Padilla’s case justifies the barbarism the Bush administration embraced.

There are more than 40,000 CBP officers authorized to act like judges but without legal training. The new executive order does not change this.

It sure sounds like many of them do.

The two contractors who designed the program were paid $81 million. And that’s just one thing.

Nobody’s going to tell Joe Biden to dial down the self-congratulation.

“It’s not clear who or what would come in his place,” says Robert Ford, “and it’s a valid concern.”

We know they oppose it now, but revoking it in 2017 will be a lot more complicated.

To understand the administration’s approach to negotiations with Iran, Obama’s poker-playing style is instructive.

The arrival of ISIL makes an Israeli-Palestinian settlement even more urgent. But Hamas is not ISIL, and ISIL is not Hamas.