According to the May 30. 2005 Bradbury memo, the CIA has used “enhanced techniques to varying degrees” in the interrogations of 28 detainees.
The CIA “used the waterboard extensively in the interrogations of KSM (Khalid Sheikh Muhammed] and Zubaydah [Abu Zubaydah], but did so only after it became clear that More…
That’s the claim made by the Wall Street Journal editorial board over the weekend, hammering Obama for his aggressive assertion of executive power to hide evidence of warrantless wiretapping under the Bush administration.
Last night on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” Harper’s writer and lawyer Scott Horton made the astonishing — and very convincing — argument that, while most of us didn’t realize it, over the last eight years President George W. Bush had turned our country into a dictatorship.
Horton, a More…
Despite the longstanding prohibition on torture, the U.N. Convention Against Torture (which the United States has ratified) and the Geneva Conventions, the Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush determined in March 2002 that the president may transfer any prisoner captured abroad to a foreign country where he More…
The Obama administration, under pressure to turn over key memos written by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, has asked the federal judge in New York for another 90 days to consider its position on a Freedom of Information Act case brought by a coalition of civil liberties advocates. More…
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