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U.S. Engaged in Torture After 9/11, Constitution Project Report Concludes
WASHINGTON — A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” and that the nation’s highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it.
The sweeping, 577-page report says that while brutality has occurred in every American war, there never before had been “the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody.” The study, by an 11-member panel convened by the Constitution Project, a legal research and advocacy group, is to be released on Tuesday morning.
Debate over the coercive interrogation methods used by the administration of President George W. Bush has often broken down on largely partisan lines. The Constitution Project’s task force on detainee treatment, led by two former members of Congress with experience in the executive branch — a Republican, Asa Hutchinson, and a Democrat, James R. Jones — seeks to produce a stronger national consensus on the torture question.
While the task force did not have access to classified records, it is the most ambitious independent attempt to date to assess the detention and interrogation programs. A separate 6,000-page report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s record by the Senate Intelligence Committee, based exclusively on agency records, rather than interviews, remains classified.
“As long as the debate continues, so too does the possibility that the United States could again engage in torture,” the report says. Read more…
Social Media Election
via Open-Site.org
Anyone with a Facebook or Twitter account has probably noticed an increase in the number of political postings over the past few years. This is due, in part, to the explosive rise in social media outlets and users. But voters are not the only people who use social media; among politicians, 9 out of 10 Senators and Representatives have Twitter accounts. However, many are starting to wonder if social media is becoming less a reporter of political races and more of a predictor of the results. In Senate races, the candidate with more Facebook friends than his or her opponent has won 81% of the time. And one email sent to 60 million Facebook users prompted an additional 340,000 people to vote in the 2010 election. This infographic illustrates just how politics and social media are affecting each other.
Info-graphic & post by Open-Site.org
AnarchitexT Graffiti gets Published on Guardian and Al Arabiya
The outcome of two heavy weeks at Ithadia (Egyptian Presidential Palace), protesting the New Presidential constitutional amendments of November 22, which effectively Made Morsi an undisputed dictator; and the Referendum on the New Egyptian Constitution Draft set for December 15.
These were the Graffitis we painted on the Ithadia Palace walls, saying :
No to the Pharoah Morsi
And
No to the Ikhwani Constitution
The Graffitis were published in two new outlets, Al Arabiya & Guardian.
Here are the links for the Stencils used for the graffitis if anyone would like to spread the Joy!
No Stencil
Pharaoh
Video: No to the Egyptian Constitution Referendum – رموز مصر بجد قالو لأ [HD]
A little something we made hastily to counter Ikhwani propaganda!


























