January 14, 2009 – 6:15 am
In an interview with Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, Susan J. Crawford, has admitted that Mohammed al-Qahtani, the suspected 20th terrorist in the 9/11 attack on the US was brutally tortured while being detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Brutally tortured by Americans while being held without regard for the Geneva Convention.
Tortured by [...]
December 9, 2008 – 5:55 am
Defense Lawyers for the Blackwater 5 had thought to influence justice by having their clients surrender in Utah. A state that traditionally supports the military, the lawyers for the defense hoped to find a sympathetic jury there.
Those hopes were squashed like bugs underfoot when a federal judge there ordered the defendants to [...]
November 20, 2008 – 12:50 pm
I’m so overjoyed I’m incapable of commenting!
Cheney, Gonzales indicted for alleged prisoner abuse
(CNN) – Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on separate charges related to alleged prisoner abuse in federal detention centers, Willacy County, Texas, District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra told CNN Tuesday.
The indictment stems from [...]
I imagine that Still President Bush and his shotgun totin’ sidekick Herr Cheney are all but gnashing their teeth at the miscarriage of justice that took place in Cuba earlier this week.
In case you live under a rock, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the former driver of Osama Bin Laden, was sentenced to a [...]
On September 26, 2002, freedom loving United States Immigration and Naturalization Service agents detained Mahar Arar as he waited for a connecting flight to Montreal. He had just flown in from Tunisia.
In the first know act of "extraordinary rendition" to be conducted on American soil, Mr. Arar was deported to Syria where he [...]
April 24, 2008 – 11:12 am
Take an opportunity to sign a petition and document of support against the atrocities that the Chinese occupiers are conducting against the subjugated Tibetan People. Click HERE.
April 24, 2008 – 10:48 am
Amnesty International is concerned that China’s history of flagrant human rights abuses will continue in this time immediately prior to the Olympic Games as China seeks to remove dissidents from the ‘public’ eye. Visit Amnesty International and learn how you can help.
The European Union Parliament passed a resolution yesterday calling for all European countries to boycott at least the opening ceremonies in Beijing this upcoming august 8th. The resolution further demands that China re-open negotiations with the Dalai Lama regarding the controversy surrounding Tibet which has been unlawfully occupied by the Chinese for the [...]
March 28, 2008 – 11:41 am
The University of Georgia hosted a roundtable discussion this week that was comprised of the 5 former Secretaries of State; Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell. During the discussion they quickly reached a consensus that the detention/torture facility at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay should be [...]
January 31, 2008 – 2:47 pm
I think we all know where our ex-AG stood on waterboarding, he knew damn well it was illegal torture. Our newest AG doesn’t seem to be able to make that leap of intellect. After three months of ‘review’, Mukasey still can decide if simulated drowning, condemned by every civilized nation, is actually torture.
It’s kind [...]
January 22, 2008 – 8:30 am
A brilliant Op/Ed piece from my local Seattle Times:
Democracies don’t torture
By Robert Crawford Special to The Times
Torture has re-entered the public domain. From Attorney General Robert Mukasey’s equivocation about waterboarding at his confirmation hearings to the current controversy over the CIA’s destruction of interrogation videotapes, [...]
January 18, 2008 – 1:21 pm
In a brilliant and twisted turn of events, Canada has placed both the US and Israel on their list of countries who torture prisoners as well as classifying some of the more common techniques that the US uses as torture.
We’ve officially become the bad guys to at least one normal democratic nation.
Canada places U.S., [...]
January 15, 2008 – 2:12 pm
From about 1478 through 1834, in both Spain and Mexico, the black garbed priests of the inquisition used three methods of interrogation:
The prisoner could be hung by his wrists from a pulley, repeatedly hoisted and dropped.
He could be tied to a rack and stretched.
Or he could be waterboarded.
Utilizing the incredibly detailed records [...]
January 7, 2008 – 2:47 pm
There is a very interesting article in the Eugene, Oregon, Register-Guard that put the appointment of Justice Department prosecutor John Durham in a new perspective. The basic question posed was this: Did Mukasey find so much evidence of wrongdoing at all levels of our current administration, that even a jaded party hack like himself [...]
January 4, 2008 – 10:15 am
The Baltimore Sun has a spiffy piece which reflects on Mukasey and his attempt to thwart a Congressional probe into the CIA tape fiasco, who Alberto had Pledged his Allegiance to (and the result isn’t shocking to me!), and the controversy itself over the legality of waterboarding as a torture interrogation device.
Tapes and cover-ups redux
January [...]
