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GRAPHIC: Video of U.S. Helicopter in Iraq Firing on Civilians in 2007

By | 04.05.10 | 2:53 pm

Via Marcy Wheeler and Rachel Maddow, this video obtained by Wikileaks shows what the classified information repository Website claims is an “unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers” by a U.S. helicopter in Baghdad in 2007. “Two young children involved in the rescue were More…

When Rahm Emanuel Opposed Indefinite Detention Without Trial

By | 03.16.10 | 6:10 pm

A timely reminder from FDL’s Marcy Wheeler that Rahm Emanuel lent his name to the following statement in 2007:

Since the time that captured “enemy combatants” were first brought to Guantanamo Bay in 2002, the detainment facility has undermined America’s image as the model of justice and protector

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CIA Interrogation Tapes Destroyed Shortly After News Reports on CIA Black Sites and Interrogation Methods

By | 11.25.09 | 1:45 pm

Marcy Wheeler at Firedoglake has an interesting take today on the most recent summary of classified documents that the government turned over to the American Civil Liberties Union Friday, as part of its response to the organization’s Freedom of Information Act requests about the More…

Did Greg Craig Bungle Dawn Johnsen’s OLC Nomination?

By | 11.17.09 | 10:24 am

Greg Craig announced his departure as White House counsel on Friday, and you can Google for yourself all the Internet-dispersed acrimony and recriminations that his vexed tenure has inspired. This, however, via Marcy Wheeler, is news to me. Marc Ambinder:

The White House was also dissatisfied with Craig’s

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Holder’s Invocation of State Secrets Privilege Shields Government From Accountability

By | 11.02.09 | 6:42 pm

As Marcy Wheeler and Glenn Greenwald both pointed out over the weekend, Eric Holder on Friday once again declared that a case charging government lawbreaking must be dismissed because to let it continue would reveal important “state secrets.” That’s despite the fact that Attorney General More…

If the ‘War on Terror’ Is Over, So Is the Right to Preventive Detention

By | 08.14.09 | 12:58 pm

Writing about the role Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan played in the Bush counterterror surveillance program, Marcy Wheeler, blogging for Glenn Greenwald at Salon today, argues that as NSA adviser, rather than CIA director (a position Brennan was nominated for, but Glenn helped torpedo the nomination by More…

ACLU to Argue Against Use of Evidence Obtained Through Torture in Federal Court

By | 06.30.09 | 6:31 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union will file a brief tomorrow urging the federal court to suppress evidence gathered using torture, which the government wants to rely on in the case of Mohammed Jawad, the boy who “confessed” to throwing a grenade at U.S. soldiers after being arrested and tortured More…

Why Isn’t the Justice Department Enforcing the Convention Against Torture?

By | 06.28.09 | 1:48 pm

Marcy Wheeler made a great point on Friday that’s worth following up on. President Obama’s declaration to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention Against Torture tosses the responsibility for developing “effective policies and programs for stopping torture” to the State Department, asking it to solicit information from More…

BREAKING: 2004 CIA Inspector General Torture Report’s Release Is Delayed AGAIN

By | 06.26.09 | 12:51 pm

It was supposed to be a magical day: the day when, in response to an agreement reached in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Obama administration will declassify an important document in the history of its predecessor’s apparatus of torture. I refer to the 2004 More…

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Was Waterboarded 183 Times, Blogger Discovers

By | 04.20.09 | 9:25 am

After digging through the newly-disclosed Office of Legal Counsel memos, my friend Marcy Wheeler of Firedoglake discovered that CIA interrogators waterboarded 9/11 architect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times in one month. The New York Times piece that follows up today appropriately acknowledges Marcy’s discovery. (Full disclosure: my personal blog More…