Could he [Mr. Obama] order the targeted killing of an American citizen [cleric Anwar al-Awlaki], in a country with which the United States was not at war [Yemen], in secret and without the benefit of a trial? The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel prepared a...
From the Tenth Amendment Center: Los Angeles Event shows how States and Local Communities Can Stop NDAA Indefinite Detention As Congress focused last week on the so-called “indefinite detention” provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA),...
OK, this is the first anniversary of the U.S. apparently killing someone with a long beard in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The new spin is that Mr. Obama, making a "gutsy call," took the high-risk course of sending in "boots on the ground" rather than...
Reposted with permission from Campaign for Liberty's Michael Ostrolenk: A vote could occur today on two amendments introduced to prevent the indefinite detention of American citizens as currently written into the National Defense Authorization Act, S. 1867. Senate...
On Monday, September 12, 2011 at 12:30pm at Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th St NW; (14th and V St NW), Washington, D.C. Free and open to the public. Ralph Nader and Busboys & Poets will host a thought-provoking roundtable discussion on Monday, September 12, 2011. Looking...
Bill Keller provides a handy list of people who should have been eternally discredited by their behavior after 9/11: During the months of public argument about how to deal with Saddam Hussein, I christened an imaginary association of pundits the...
Reuters: Norwegians believe penalties for serious crimes in their country should be tightened in the wake of a shooting and bomb attack that killed 77 people in July, an opinion poll showed Monday. In a survey of 1,283 people conducted six days after the July 22...
Before Norwegian authorities arrested a sole, Norwegian suspect in today's murders, America's professional bullshitters stroked themselves into quite the, er, terrection, if you will. A sampling: Jennifer Rubin: This is a sobering reminder for those who think it’s too...
Breaking: Twenty-Four Anti-Torture Activists Acquitted in Trial for Protest at the US Capitol Calling for Guantanamo's Closure and the Investigation of Deaths at the Prison. From WitnessTorture.org: On Monday, June 14, twenty-four activists with Witness Against...
Click play to see the heroic anti-torture human rights lawyer, Columbia law professor and Harper's magazine journalist The Other Scott Horton (no relation) discuss the case of "The Guantanamo 'Suicides'" on Freedom Watch with Andrew Napolitano The Guantanamo...
