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Category Archives: torture
Obama Administration Pot Calls Out Pakistani Kettle
From the Department of Blatant Hypocrisy, Do As I Say, Not As I Do Division: “The Obama administration is expressing alarm over reports that thousands of political separatists and captured Taliban insurgents have disappeared into the hands of Pakistan’s police … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Bill of Rights, drone strikes, Justice Department, Obama, Obama administration, Pakistan, torture, war on terror
Tagged al Qaeda, Bill of Rights, Bush administration, CIA, Department of Justice, drones, due process, extrajudicial killings, Gitmo, human rights, hypocrisy, indefinite detention, look forward not back, Obama administration, Pakistan, Poland, Taliban, torture investigation, treaties, war on terror
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Medical Experimentation on Gitmo Detainees
Paging Dr. Mengele, Dr. Josef Mengele. Truthout has a report taken from Department of Defense documents showing that detainees at Guantanamo were given massive doses of an anti-malarial drug which was known to have serious psychological side effects before they … Continue reading
Obama Invokes “State Secrets” in Assassination Plot
“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”—James Madison, often referred to as the father of that antiquated, outdated, document known as the Constitution of the United States, which … Continue reading
Posted in Bill of Rights, Constitution, Justice Department, Obama administration, torture, war on terror
Tagged ACLU, al Qaeda, American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, assassinate, Center for Constitutional Rights, Constitution, due process, George Bush, Glenn Greenwald, James Madison, Justice Department, President Obama, state secrets, tyranny. oppression
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What Hath 9/11 Wrought?
September 11, 2001 has been dubbed ‘The Day That Changed America’ and indeed it did. Indeed it did—and not for the better. It changed America from the land of the free and the home of the brave to the land … Continue reading
Posted in Bill of Rights, Constitution, Justice Department, Obama administration, terrorism, torture, war on terror
Tagged ACLU, Andrew Sullivan, Bush administration, Daily Dish, due process, equal justice, Executive Branch, habeas corpus, Judicial Branch, national security, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Obama administration, President Obama, rendition, rule of law, September 11, state secrets, The Day That Changed America, torture, war crimes
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Supremes Refuse to Hear Torture Appeal
That old-fashioned notion of equal justice under the law was dealt another blow by the Supreme Court yesterday as they refused to hear the appeal of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was detained, tortured, and imprisoned for over a … Continue reading
I Thought We Were “Looking Forward”
Wait a minute. I sense some inconsistency here. What happened to “look forward, not back?”: “The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a … Continue reading
The Rule of Law Loses Another Round With Johnsen Withdrawal
In what has become SOP for this administration, President Obama has once again capitulated under the slightest pushback from the GOP obstructionists, although without too much of a struggle I might add. After leaving his nominee to head the OLC, … Continue reading
President Obama to Indonesians: Look Backward, Not Forward
From the Department of ‘Do As I Say, Not As I Do’ comes this from Glenn Greenwald at Salon: “President Obama gave an interview earlier this week to an Indonesian television station in lieu of the scheduled trip to that … Continue reading
Posted in Obama, Politics, torture, war on terror
Tagged Glenn Greenwald, human rights, Indonesia, look backwards, President Obama, Salon
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Guantanamo Detainee Ordered Released
In another victory for the rule of law and a defeat for the Bush administration’s “war on terror” policies (sadly continued by the Obama administration), U.S. District Judge James Robertson has ordered the release of Mohamedou Slahi, who has been … Continue reading
