{"id":33212,"date":"2013-04-16T17:51:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T23:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/americas-shame.html"},"modified":"2013-04-17T09:10:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:10:36","slug":"americas-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/americas-shame.html","title":{"rendered":"America's shame"},"content":{"rendered":"
History will, I suspect, judge our nation as harshly as some in the present do.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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U.S. Practiced Torture After 9\/11, Nonpartisan Review Concludes<\/a>
\n A nonpartisan review concluded that the use of torture had \u201cdamaged the standing\u201d of the United States and \u201cpotentially increased the danger to U.S. military personnel.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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History will, I suspect, judge our nation as harshly as some in the present do.\u00a0 Embedded Link U.S. Practiced Torture After 9\/11, Nonpartisan Review Concludes A nonpartisan review concluded that the use of torture had \u201cdamaged the standing\u201d of the United States and \u201cpotentially increased the danger to U.S. military personnel.\u201d View this post on … Continue reading “America's shame”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137459,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/15\/helping-employees-vote.html","url_meta":{"origin":33212,"position":0},"title":"Helping Employees Vote","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Nov-18 4:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It is both maddening and so very (alas) American that large employers feel the need to volunteer to make it less difficult for their employees to vote in elections. 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