GUANTANAMO BAY — Two weeks’ worth of testimony in a pre-trial hearing for the military commission of Omar Khadr, a 23-year old Canadian detained by the U.S. for nearly eight years, ended Thursday with two major declaratory statements. One was from the first man ever to interrogate Khadr, who testified More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — Now that former Army interrogator Damien “The Monster” Corsetti has testified on Omar Khadr’s behalf, he’ll be followed tomorrow morning by the long-awaited testimony of “Interrogator #1,” who apparently will testify to threatening the then-15-year-old detainee with sending him to another country to be More…
Manu Raju, who’s really dominated the Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) beat this year, has a darkly entertaining story about Republicans who are angry their votes against his amendment prohibiting federal contracts with companies that force their employees to go through internal arbitration are being spun as pro-rape. So they More…
When the Supreme Court ruled last week in a controversial 5-4 decision that prisoners have no constitutional right to obtain available DNA evidence that could prove their innocence, retiring Justice David Souter wrote an eloquent dissent.
This excerpt below (I’ve omitted the citations) explains how the majority’s “conservatism” in More…
In yet another 5-4 ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court denied a man imprisoned for a rape and attempted murder he says he didn’t commit the right to the DNA evidence that would prove his guilt or innocence.
Concluding that this is a matter for state legislatures, not the federal More…
Strange as it sounds, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was a strong proponent of President Obama’s decision to reverse course and argue in court that photographs depicting torture of Iraqis by U.S. troops ought to be kept private, according to McClatchy’s Nancy Youssef:
The official said Maliki warned that
The Daily Telegraph reports that some of the photos of prisoner abuse that President Obama has refused to release — after earlier promising to make them public — depict the brutal rape and sexual abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping
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