Rock the Look that Shook Guantanamo!
You too can rock the terrorist look! According to horse whisperers quoted in the New Yorker referencing information absolutely not from Wiki-something, one of the signs of a terrorist was that he wore...
View ArticleContractors in Iraq Never Held Responsible
If my child does something wrong, as a parent I’m responsible for interceding. If an employee does something wrong, the employer steps in to fix things. If a US Government contractor in Iraq does...
View ArticleNever Again? Gitmo Medical Records Chilling
A recent study of medical records kept at Guantanamo Bay is chilling in its simplicity. The study concludes: The findings in these nine cases from GTMO indicate that medical doctors and mental health...
View ArticleLet’s Watch Qaddafi Get Beaten and (Maybe) Sodomized
Though apparently my posting of a video of your Secretary of State gleeful at the death of Qaddafi may not have been to everyone’s taste, NOW we know why everyone was so happy. More complete video of...
View ArticleVery Sexy Videos from State Department
Did you know your government has a propaganda arm? No, no, not Fox News, they’re independent, I’m talking actual Federal employees. They live and work inside the State Department (New motto once...
View ArticleAmerican Torturers
If only the people who ordered torture as a policy of the once magnificent United States had the stones to actually get their own hands dirty, maybe– maybe– things would be different? Good God, what...
View ArticleTorture and the Myth of Never Again
This article originally appeared on TomDispatch, HuffPo, Salon, the Nation and other sites on 9/11/12. Here is what military briefers like to call BLUF, the Bottom Line Up Front: no one except John...
View ArticleAn All-American Nightmare
This article was originally published on Salon.com, December 18, 2012 Why Zero Dark Thirty Won’t Settle the Torture Question or Purge Torture From the American System If you look backward you see a...
View ArticleJohn Kiriakou, Scooter Libby and the Myth of Justice
John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer, pleaded guilty to leaking the identity of one of the agency’s covert operatives to a reporter and was sentenced on January 24, 2013 to two and a half years in...
View ArticleDestroying Rights Guaranteed since the Magna Carta
Here are the Department of Justice’s legal arguments granting permission to the president to assassinate Americans if they are connected with al Qaeda, essentially destroying rights guaranteed citizens...
View ArticleToo Hilarious: Susan Rice Decries Torture (except by the U.S.)
Where, oh where to begin? America’s would-be Secretary of State, Obama confidante and rumored former lover, and our next National Security Advisor, has the temerity to actually ask anyone to commit to...
View ArticleVideo of Torture in Afghanistan as American Soldiers Stand By and Watch
This is horrific, what appears to be a video of Afghan military beating and torturing a bound captive while persons who appear to be American soldiers stand by and watch. One of the Americans has on...
View ArticleWhen Does the Torture End?
While the unfolding Constitutional crisis over the CIA’s spying on Senate staffers reviewing the torture program continues, all media accounts are quick to add to their articles a variant of the phrase...
View ArticleTorture and the Destruction of the Human Being Shaker Aamer by the United States
Somedays we have a little fun in this space, commenting on world events with a joke, some satire, a little snark. Today will not be one of those days. The Bush and Obama administrations have gone to...
View ArticleTorture Laid Bare at Nuremberg, and Maybe Guantanamo?
In another time and place, the intentional mistreatment and torture of human beings, often with the assistance of medical doctors and learned men and women, was made public to destroy it. But open...
View ArticleJack Rice Interview: Torture Laid Bare, Nuremberg and Guantanamo
A powerful interview with radio host Jack Rice of KTNF, 950AM. We discuss my article Torture Laid Bare at Nuremberg, and Maybe Guantanamo. What does it say to the world when we return to the days of...
View ArticleClassification: Hiding American War from Americans
Our government classifies a lot of documents, some 92 million in 2011 alone. The ostensible point of all that classification is protect the nation’s secrets. Some of it even makes sense. Troop...
View ArticleCIA, Senate and a Constitutional Crisis Resolved (not in favor of the...
Chroniclers of the decline of the republic will recall March 2014. Speaking then in reference to revelations that the CIA searched computers being used by Senate staffers, and removed documents those...
View ArticleThinking About Torture Ahead of the Senate Report
The highly-redacted Senate Intelligence Committee report on post-9/11 torture is being released as you read this. It will likely contain few details on what actually happened by America’s hand. But...
View ArticleThe Torture Never Stops
With the release of the Senate torture report, media accounts are quick to add a variant of the phrase that “Obama discontinued the enhanced interrogation programs soon after coming into office.” That...
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