Tag Archives: torture

The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us

From Frank Rich’s article, The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us: “Call me cynical, but when Laura Bush spoke up last week about the human rights atrocities in Burma, it seemed less an act of selfless humanitarianism than another administration maneuver to change the subject from its own abuses. As Mrs. Bush spoke, two women, both Armenian [...]

Conscience of a Conservative

From the NY Times Magazine article, Conscience of a Conservative: “What, exactly, are the legal limits of executive power in the post-9/11 world? How should administration lawyers negotiate the conflict between the fear of attacks and the fear of lawsuits?”

Only the Jailers Are Safe

In Only the Jailers Are Safe, the NY Times editorial board discusses the Bush Administration’s use of torture, and to all those who said that we would never torture Americans, the Times reports on the case of Donald Vance, an innocent American (not only was he innocent, but he was also actively aiding the F.B.I. [...]

Rushing Off a Cliff

If there was ever a moment for a filibuster, this was it.

Interview with Mark Danner

Here’s an interesting interview with Mark Danner, the NY Review of Books journalist who has written at length about the U.S. torture scandal and, via the title of his new book, the secret way to war. The interview includes this gem from Danner, “One is perilously close to arriving at the conclusion that reality doesn’t [...]

For shame

Michael Ratner, a human rights lawyer and president of the Center for Human Rights, has an article on Salon today, titled, Wrong about rights.
He writes:
The idea that torture could be so publicly defensible — and the news that the United States is maintaining secret facilities in former Soviet-era prisons for torturing nameless and disappeared people [...]

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