Bush Administration Promises: U.S. Will Give Detainees Geneva Rights
ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY of the AP (published at Washington Post) dutifully reports:The Bush administration, called to account by Congress after the Supreme Court blocked military tribunals, said Tuesday...
View ArticleSilencing the Tortured
Liberal Candy gives the proper analysis of a Washington Post article "U.S. Seeks Silence on CIA Prisons" in post "Bush Admin. wants to silence the tortured regarding secret CIA prisons and methods". WP...
View ArticleMost Ex-Gitmo Detainees Free In Homelands
AP report at CBS5.com (same title as above). Considered 'Most Dangerous' By U.S.; Cleared After Leaving Guantanamo (AP) The Pentagon called them "among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers...
View ArticlePentagon and WSJ Call on "Corporate Clients" to Drop Law Firms that Represent...
Excerpt NY Times article "Round Up the Usual Lawyers": No one who has followed President Bush’s policies on detainees should be surprised when a member of his team scorns American notions of justice....
View ArticlePsychological torture just as bad, study finds
Though the Bush administration has tried to down play the accusations of prisoner abuse by limiting the use of the word "torture" to the most severe physical assaults, a recent study shows that...
View ArticleWaterboarding is Not "Simulated" Drowning
I don't blame anyone for being mistaken about this fact. I was too when I only read mainstream articles on the practice, but...
View ArticleMcClatchy: Huge Report on the Detention of Enemy Combatants. First Part...
A big report in the McClatchy newspapers show mistaken identity and mistreatment at America's detention
View ArticleYou Too Can Be an Enemy Combatant
You think you can't fall into the system at a moment's notice?You're too American.You're too white.You haven't converted to Islam.Think again, friend.It could come in a second.You could call 911,...
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