Eric Holder
So now it begins — months, perhaps even years of Justice Department investigations and, perhaps, prosecutions of CIA agents and contractors who may have violated U.S. laws in interrogating terrorism suspects. Who knows where it will end, but probably…
Detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. AP Photo/Shane T.McCoy, U.S. Navy
It’s no secret that during the Bush administration, the Central Intelligence Agency “rendered” suspected terrorists to overseas facilities where they were subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Some sessions were recorded…
Guess who wrote this:
It is clear that many in the intelligence community remain in denial about the scope of its intelligence failures. While the report frequently criticizes the Director of Central Intelligence as the primary liaison to the president, the…
What did Nancy know and when did she know it? Those questions are going to have to be answered by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and the sooner the better.
To avoid being a distraction from the debate on torture, Pelosi…
Over at The Atlantic’s website, the blogger Andrew Sullivan poses an interesting, even gruesome, philosophical argument: If you buy the Bush administration’s arguments that its “enhanced interrogation” techniques don’t constitute torture, why not rape? Sullivan writes:
Raping someone need not leave any long-term…
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H. Thomas Wells Jr., came to St. Louis earlier this week. He’s a lawyer from Birmingham, Ala., and current president of the American Bar Association, the nation’s largest professional association of lawyers.
Mr. Wells was here for an…
I was in line buying a Christmas tree when I heard it:
Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say
On a bright Hawaiian Christmas Day.
That’s the island greeting that we send to you
From the land where palm trees…
An excerpt, click here to watch the entire documentary. Coming soon to public television.
(h/t Andrew Sullivan)
After two weeks’ vacation and more than 1,700 Midwestern highway miles, I came home looking for some wisdom. I found it on the editorial page of Sunday’s Post-Dispatch — in a letter to the editor by Dorothy Anderson of Spanish Lake:
“I have…
Jane Mayer, on Letterman, discussing her new book about the Bush Administration’s use of torture.
Philosophers long have pondered what separates humans from the great apes with whom we share 95 percent or more of our DNA.
Is it the ability to make and use tools? To remember the past and plan for the future? To…
Christopher Hitchens, the tough minded journalist and social critic, undergoes torture waterboarding for Vanity Fair and talks and writes about the experience.
Read some commentary about his effort here.
David Addington, as chief counsel and then chief of staff to the vice president, and John Yoo, as a member of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, occupied top tier staff positions in national…
My column today pulls together and reflects on last week’s three major developments in America’s ongoing effort to understand how the Bush administration came to approve and use abusive interrogation techniques on prisoners — something that violates every principle of…
John C. Yoo is a law professor at the University of California-Berkeley. From 2001 through 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. It was there that…
For anyone interested in diving into the torture pool, which was the subject of my oped column of April 9, there’s no shortage of original documents on the subject. Here are links to a few that are mentioned in the column –…
