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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Posts Tagged Geneva conventions

HOLDER HEARING: Holder: Detainees Have to Be Treated Humanely

By | 01.15.09 | 3:36 pm

Earlier today, Eric Holder called waterboarding out-and-out torture. But later, when asked about other kinds of interrogation techniques (dogs, painful stress positions, nudity, and mock executions), he said he wouldn’t call those actions torture.

Instead, he refreshingly reminds the committee that Common Article III of the Geneva Conventions requires More…

Gonzales Still Feeling Sorry for Himself

By | 01.02.09 | 10:01 am

Steve Benen over at The Washington Monthly has a nice commentary on Alberto Gonzales and his recent lament that he’s “one of the many casualties of the war on terror,” as he told the Wall Street Journal earlier this week.

Echoing some of the themes running through my More…

Afghan-Taliban talks could boost the case for war crimes charges against Bush Administration officials

By | 10.08.08 | 2:44 pm

As Spencer Ackerman reported yesterday, it appears the Taliban have been talking to the Afghan government, with the help of Saudi Arabia.

Reports last week noted that Afghan President Hamid Karzai had asked the Saudi king for help in reaching out to the Taliban, in the hope of brokering More…

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