Check out this great Esquire article about the torture occupation of Iraq and new Afghan boss McChrystal's role. How'd I miss this in '06? It was a point of pride that the Red Cross would never be allowed in the door, Jeff says. This is important because it defied the...
Democrats: Investigate Republicans
But why bring up lawbreaking by the Democrats who preceded them? We don't want to criminalize policy differences do we? The sooner we stop pretending there is a "rule of law" which binds the power of our government, the better off we'll all be.
Oh, Poor Judge Bybee!
Pravda reports that Federal Judge Jay Bybee, who "interpreted" the law to mean that it was perfectly okay for George W. Bush to slam people against the wall 30 times in a row after keeping them awake for a month chained to the ceiling and forced to evacuate on...
The Paradox of Law: The Past as Prologue
by Mario Rizzo  As an economist who has specialized in the economic analysis of law, I am quite frustrated by the statements of some commentators that the Obama Administration and the Congress should not look backwards in trying to uncover and/or prosecute member of...
Media Elite Fall Down Again, and Again and …
For all of their gasbaggery about the virtue and necessity of the Fourth Estate, the glittering mainstream media elite (big names, big money, very little gumshoe) is simply allergic to breaking news, and intelligently reporting about anything that implicates the power...
Harry Reid: Pathetic
"I think it would be very unwise, from my perspective, to start having [torture] commissions, boards, tribunals, until we find out what the facts are." -Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid So, I guess the question is whether the leader of the Great Imperial Senate...
Rahm Emanuel: There is no law.
This society is ruled only by the will of men. Don't you ever lie to your younger kin and tell them otherwise. Update: Robert "Obama's Ari Fleischer" Gibbs is forced by a CNN reporter to demonstrate the abject hollowness of the administration's absurd substitute for a...
Obama’s “Nation of Laws”
Obama proudly declared yesterday that ours is a "nation of laws" at the same time he announced that CIA torturers would not be prosecuted for their crimes. Life in Washington is one damn paradox after another. Kudos to the American Civil Liberties Union for their...
The ICRC Torture Report
A few weeks ago, Mark Danner at the New York Review of Books published an article about a classified International Committee of the Red Cross report written for the CIA's eyes only. It described in detail the tortures committed against those held in the CIA's "Ghost...
Colin Powell: War Criminal
Rachel Maddow busts Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former Secretary of State of the United States, as he pretends on live TV to not be qualified to know whether someone (him) would be in violation of the laws of war if that person...
