Showing posts with label torture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label torture. Show all posts
Monday, February 9, 2015

Food for thought

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Here are a few items I picked up the last week or so that seemed particularly relevant for one reason or another... If you represent defen...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

On torture, war crimes and hypocrisy

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So Democrats in Congress are up in arms about revelations that our government tortured inmates as part of the War on Everything Terror. It...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Serving two masters

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I will  prescribe  regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and  never do harm  to anyone. -- Hippocra...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Forced feeding = torture

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Is it a form of torture to force feed a prisoner on hunger strike? Let's forget for a second the question of whether it's torture ...
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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Monday, January 28, 2013

Blowing the whistle

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Former CIA agent John Kiriakou will spend the next 30 months in a federal prison for revealing the name of a former officer who tortured de...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Tracking down betrayal

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Martin Almada is an attorney in Paraguay. He and his wife were teachers back in the 1970's when Gen. Alfredo Stroessner wielded his brut...
Friday, December 14, 2012

The (show) trial of the century

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US Army Col. James Pohl is faithfully doing the bidding of his masters . The man who will preside over the trial, in military court, of Khal...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The truth comes with a hefty price tag

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Two-and-a-half years ago, the U.S. Army accused Pfc. Bradley Manning of leaking classified documents that embarrassed the U.S. government to...
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...
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...
Monday, May 7, 2012

Let the show trial begin

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The long-awaited military trials of the alleged masterminds of the 9/11 hijackings commenced this weekend at Guantanamo. Khalid Shaikh Moha...
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, November 18, 2011

Defending the indefensible

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The other night (at yet another televised "debate") three GOP presidential hopefuls, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann and our own Ric...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Ye shall know the truth and yada yada yada

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President Obama has rejected the idea of creating a truth commission to look into interrogation techniques used during the Bush administrat...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

CRU and the assault on the Constitution

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HPD's Crime Reduction Unit (CRU) is making the city safe from the likes of hardened criminals like jaywalkers and bicyclists. It's ...