Reuters:
The number of Americans who would condone torture, at least when used on terrorists in order to save lives, has risen over the past two years and now stands at over 40 percent, according to a new opinion poll.
I’ve always wondered what people who took this stand were thinking in their heads as the question […]
And no doubt in a secret CIA prison somewhere, being regularly motivated to advise the Bush administration on how to treat Guantanamo detainees.
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit determined that Huzaifa Parhat, who has been detained in Guantanamo Bay for more than six years, is not an enemy […]
Maj. David Frakt is a military lawyer assigned to defend Mohammad Jawad, “a minor when he was captured in Afghanistan after allegedly throwing a hand grenade that wounded two U.S. soldiers and their Afghan interpreter”.
These are excerpts from the powerful and eloquent closing argument Frakt presented at a pretrial hearing before a military commission at […]
It’s interesting how scandal after scandal has erupted in the State Department, many of them pointing to systematic mismanagement, but Condi Rice has consistently avoided any measure of accountability or blame.
The most egregious of these was probably the State Department’s longstanding role as Blackwater USA’s dedicated enabler and cover-upper—from trying to dismiss and whitewash mass […]
Anybody who follows politics understands about feet of clay, and may be willing to cut politicians some slack for garden variety clay-footing. But John “Lobbyists’ Worst Nightmare” McCain seems to be in a class by himself. His feet seem to be not just made of clay but marinaded in raw sewage for a […]
When the McCain campaign is involved, and when it would be illegal for it to be a fundraiser. Then it becomes some kind of non-campaign finance event, presumably before blossoming into a full-fledged non-campaign non-finance event. It may be a while, though, before they can turn it into a non-event.
St. John gave […]
We’ve all been hearing for years about the evidence the government has against Guantanamo detainees. This is the evidence George Bush and his band of obedient henchmen have sworn by all these years, the evidence that proved the detainees were terrorist die-hards, the evidence that justified holding them indefinitely in Guantanamo, the evidence […]
Scott McClellan seems to still nurse the naive belief that George Bush can be shamed into consistency with his own explicit or implicit standards. He explained to the House Judiciary Committee why Bush shouldn’t pardon Scooter Libby:
Mr. Chairman, I believe that it would signal a special treatment, the same thing that happened with the […]
On June 17, the Washington Times reported on a joint investigation with ABC News:
The government is testing drugs with severe side effects like psychosis and suicidal behavior on hundreds of military veterans, using small cash payments to attract patients into medical experiments that often target distressed soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, a Washington […]
… William “Jim” Haynes II!
What do you do when you’ve already perjured yourself before a Senate committee once, and you come up before a Senate committee again, to answer questions on the exact same issue?
You can’t repeat your earlier testimony, you can’t contradict your earlier testimony. You can plead the fifth. […]
