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The Torture Memos Waterboarding Song

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on April 27, 2009

You might have seen the Jonathan Mann Paul Krugman song. Well Mann is back with a musical reading of the first of the recently released OLC memos (written by John Yoo and signed by Jay Bybee, aka the Techniques Memo) providing retroactive legal justifications for the US torture program.

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Folks I’ve got them hungry blues
And nothin’ in this to lose
People tellin’ me to choose
Between dyin’ and lyin’ and keep
on cryin’

Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain’t you heard the news
There’s another thing to choose
A brand new world clean and fine
Where nobody’s hungry
And there’s no color line
A thing like that’s worth
anybody dyin’
I ain’t got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues

James P. Johnson
Langston Hughes