The Washington Post’s Joby Warrick reports today that
At least two dozen other former and current detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere say they were given drugs against their will or witnessed other inmates being drugged, based on interviews and court documents.
Warrick’s WaPo article gives a vivid account from Adel al-Nusairi, one of the detainees who […]
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that among hundreds of recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1950s was a 1950 proposal by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty….
Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to “protect the […]
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Tagged church committee, congress, fbi, globalization, habeas corpus, halliburton, harry s truman, j edgar hoover, ku klux klan, milton friedman, mississippi, naomi klein, nsa, segregation, shock doctrine, sovereignty commission
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Breaking news on the ‘Skeeter Bites Report:
A letter by a Virginia-based U.S. attorney to a federal appeals court appears to contradict CIA Director Michael Hayden’s public statements on the destruction of hundreds of hours of video footage of “extreme” interrogations of suspected al-Qaida operatives by strongly indicating that at least two of the videos still […]
Glenn Greenwald explains.
Numerous Senate Democrats delivered dramatic speeches from the floor as to why Mukasey’s confirmation would be so devastating to the country. The Washington Post said the “vote came after more than four hours of impassioned floor debate.”
“Torture should not be what America stands for . . . I do not vote to […]
Sunday, September 9, 2007
I became aware of Naomi Klein’s work in the first month after Hurricane Katrina, when she had made a remarkable discovery about New Orleans: in neighborhoods that had been declared habitable by Mayor Nagin there were 23, 267 uninhabited apartments that could be rented to evacuees. I said then:
If each unit houses three people, that’s […]
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Recent reports say that the Senate is investigating detainee abuses by CIA and DoD personnel. It is therefore all the more important to keep public attention focused on US torture policy to ensure that there is a full accounting of the abuses that occurred and that there is a total ban on the twenty interrogation […]
Thursday, August 30, 2007
In a surprising turn of events, Texas Governor Rick Perry granted clemency to death row inmate Kenneth Foster. Foster’s death sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment. Until the reprieve came, things were not looking good. As the San Francisco Bay View put it in an email message a few days ago:
Five of the seven […]
Jane Mayer has a remarkable article in the latest New Yorker. It is a deeply disturbing companion piece to Katherine Eban’s recent article in Vanity Fair. This is harrowing reading for anyone; I can hardly imagine how doctors and psychologists must feel to see a regime of torture so dependent on the participation and collusion […]
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I made a bad decision when I used the phrase “Voodoo Scientists” in the title of my post on Katherine Eban’s latest article. I was picking up on a quote from Michael Rolince, section chief of the F.B.I.’s International Terrorism Operations, who said that US torture tactics are based on “voodoo science.”
Voodoo as an adjective […]
Over at Physicians for Human Rights (where I work), we have issued a statement concerning the disturbing evidence disclosed today in Katherine Eban’s Vanity Fair article, “Rorschach and Awe.”
In today’s statement, PHR Executive Director Len Rubenstein compares the current CIA torture program to the infamous US Public Health Service use of 400 Black men as […]
It wasn’t bad apples, folks. I’ve said it before, but the proof is in. Read Kathrine Eban’s jaw dropping exposé in Vanity Fair.
Eban’s article provides the first ever eye witness accounts of a CIA interrogation at a “black site”; it explains the role of two psychologists, James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, in devising the […]
As members of the Presidential Scholars class of 2007, we have been told that we represent the best and brightest of our nation. Therefore, we believe we have a responsibility to voice our convictions. We do not want America to represent torture. We urge you to do all in your power to stop violations of […]
A recently declassified report by the Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General confirms what many have long been deducing from the available evidence. Interrogation tactics seen at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere—such as sleep deprivation, isolation, sexual humiliation, nudity, exposure to extremes of cold and stress positions— “were part of a carefully […]
Really, he said that. Article at the link says more than 25,000 FEMA trailers are still in service in Mississippi.
Judge give me life this mornin’ down on Parchman Farm (2x)
I wouldn’t hate it so bad, but I left my wife in mourn
Oh, goodbye wife, all you have done gone (2x)
But I hope some day, you […]
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While I was at Harvard Law School on Friday, the reunion was underway, but who knew what was in store…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
APRIL 28, 2007
CONTACT: DEBORAH POPOWSKI, NATE ELA
HLS ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Cell Phones: (646) 831-8255, (646) 245-8792
Emails: dpopowski [at] law [dot] harvard [dot] edu, nela [at] law [dot] harvard [dot] edu
GONZALES EMBARRASSED AT HARVARD REUNION
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