Archive for the 'detainee abuse' Category
Treating Humans Like Livestock
Posted on August 7, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under detainee abuse, war crimes | Leave a Comment
This is what our country has been reduced to by the unforgivable criminals running our government. We put living human beings in crates the size of coffins.
The U.S. military is segregating violent Iraqi prisoners in wooden crates that in some cases are not much bigger than the prisoners.
The military released photos of what it calls [...]
So Many Criminals
Posted on July 24, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Department of Justice, detainee abuse, domestic spying | Leave a Comment
Having trouble keeping up with all of the Bushies’ not-so-legal activities? Slate has a fantastic new interactive diagram to help you figure out who did what- to the extent of the information currently available- in each of the White House’s major scandals. Illegal wiretapping, corruption of the DOJ, secret CIA interrogation tapes, and torture are [...]
Habeas For All
Posted on June 17, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain, Osama bin Laden, detainee abuse, habeas corpus | Leave a Comment
This is the new McCain attack?
In a question posed toward the end of the call by Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard, the McCain campaign might have found a new talking point with which to emphasize the possible effect of the Gitmo decision. Hayes’ asked if – in the campaign’s interpretation – the Court’s decision would mean [...]
Hey, The Supreme Court Doesn’t Totally Suck
Posted on June 12, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Supreme Court, detainee abuse, habeas corpus | Leave a Comment
Justice Kennedy decided not to be an evil bastard this time around and joined the four liberal justices in ruling on a 5-4 decision that our Gitmo detainees have a right to habeas corpus.
How far has this country fallen when I’m reduced to celebrating the restoration of habeas corpus to people who have been denied [...]
How Low They Can Go
Posted on June 2, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, detainee abuse | Leave a Comment
Sea level, taken literally. Center of the Earth, taken metaphorically. (Via dday)
The United States is operating “floating prisons” to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees.
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Information about the operation of prison ships has emerged [...]
Take That, Jon Stewart!
Posted on April 22, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, John Ashcroft, detainee abuse, torture, waterboarding | Leave a Comment
Oh, thank goodness. For a while there the world had turned topsy-turvy; John Ashcroft appeared to have been the closest thing to a voice of reason in the early days of the Torture White House. Fortunately, Ashcroft is here to set the record straight.
Yesterday, former attorney general John Ashcroft spoke at St. John’s University on [...]
We think the same things at the same time, we just can’t do anything about it. So don’t ask me ask the ministry, so don’t ask me ask the ministry
Posted on April 10, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, John Ashcroft, detainee abuse, torture, war crimes | Leave a Comment
The big news this morning is ABC’s torture scoop:
In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News.
The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings [...]
Hey, New York Times: You Suck!
Posted on April 2, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, John Yoo, New York Times, detainee abuse, the media, torture | Leave a Comment
’03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations
Way to euphemize your own article, NYT headline person. The White House declared all laws designed to prohibit torture to be irrelevant to its conduct. That’s what the memo says and that’s what your reporting says; why does the headline need to be shrouded in bullshit about “harsh interrogations”?
For the [...]
The Yoo Memo Is Freed
Posted on April 1, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Department of Justice, John Yoo, detainee abuse, torture, war crimes | Leave a Comment
Time to fire up the international war crimes tribunal!
Federal laws prohibiting assault and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president’s ultimate authority as commander-in-chief overrode such statutes, according to a newly declassified 2003 Justice Department memo released today.
The memo–which was rescinded just nine months after it was [...]
America Doesn’t Torture
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 60 minutes, Bush administration, Murat Kurnaz, detainee abuse, war crimes | Leave a Comment
Read this. Seriously, read it. Or watch the 60 Minutes piece:
Getting booed at a baseball game doesn’t begin to serve as fair punishment for the men responsible. (Nor does being forced to talk to Joe Morgan for half an hour, for that matter.) I’m not optimistic when it comes to Murat Kurnaz’s odds of ever [...]
