Showing posts with label George W. Bush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George W. Bush. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Plugging leaks

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The Obama administration has gone after more whistleblowers and journalists for leaking classified information that all other administration...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Shutting down dissent anyway possible

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By now it is quite obvious to the most oblivious observer that President Obama has failed miserably in his attempt to close down the prison ...
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Saturday, May 11, 2013

Justice in Guatemala

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Yesterday in Guatemala we saw an example of just what democracy is all about. In a court of law former Guatemalan strongman Efrain Rios Mont...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Lies, lies, lies

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The Big Lie began ten years ago this week. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The Bush administration knew it was a lie. T...
Monday, October 15, 2012

What right to know?

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In our government's ongoing quest to keep us in the dark about all that it does in our name, government prosecutors have requested that...
Friday, September 21, 2012

When the chickens come home to roost

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Back in 2003, Abu Omar, an Egyptian cleric living in Italy, was kidnapped, flown back to Egypt and tortured. The kidnappers were 23 American...
Monday, September 3, 2012

Nothing to see here

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There is no question that the U.S. government has operated secret prisons around the world that have been used to torture detainees suspecte...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

An innocent man

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A man is kidnapped in Somalia. The warlord hands over to an official from another country who then sends the man to a secret prison somewher...
Friday, May 4, 2012

Book review: The Torture Report

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(a)   Offense.—  Whoever outside the United States commits or attempts to commit torture shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Wanted: George W. Bush

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Amnesty International has called on the Canadian government either to arrest former US President George W. Bush or to extradite him when he...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

On statistics and the death penalty

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Doug Berman over at Sentencing Law and Policy  presents us a new statistic to measure the efficiency of state death machines - "Execu...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Presidential pardon pool

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Since election night I have joked with more than one colleague about starting up a pool on how many presidential pardons George W. Bush gran...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The Bush legacy

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Last year George W. Bush vetoed a bill increasing spending on health care for the poor by $7 billion because, according to W, we couldn'...
Tuesday, September 2, 2008

So much for the First Amendment

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Cheap Trick sang about them two decades ago -- the Dream Police have invaded the Twin Cities. This past weekend, while everyone else was f...