Torture

Five months in the brig, with no certain date for a hearing, in “maximum custody”: a report on visiting Bradley Manning: “In my visit to see Bradley at the Quantico brig, it became clear that the Pentagon’s public spin from last week sharply contradicts the reality of Bradley…

Strong stuff: “Eric Holder and Barack Obama have taken pains to tell the American people that water-boarding is illegal torture. So what? That’s just their opinion. President Bush disagrees. The persistent failure to hold anyone accountable at any level for years of…

Life being what it is, I have not, save for the purposes of a paying review or other research, read a book all the way through in, Jesus, the longest period of my life since I achieved literacy. That said, I am currently devouring Andy Beckett’s When the…

The Iranian Dissident Fitness Program

As mass trials against reformist elements take place in Iran, the government is denying…

FOR GENERAL RELEASE: Merely 20 or so minutes (approximately two cigarettes) after the announcement of a Justice Department investigation into whether there should be an investigation of CIA torture, I have completed my review of documents and…

An investigation is taking place to decide whether there should be an investigation! This is only exciting because the pre-investigation is by the Justice Department, and of the CIA and its techniques. You know…

“The Obama administration has turned down former Vice President Dick Cheney’s request for the declassification of two CIA reports on the effectiveness of the Agency’s detainee program.” These memos are currently being reviewed in two different Freedom of…