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Antiwar Radio: Jeff Stein and Michael Hastings

Jeff Stein and Michael Hastings will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Friday, April 21st.

Stein will discuss the major scandal involving Rep. Jane Harman, Alberto Gonzales and AIPAC at 2:00PM Eastern and Hastings will discuss his recent article from GQ Magazine, “Obama’s War” at 2:30PM Eastern.

Jeff Stein is the National Security Editor and SpyTalk columnist for Congressional Quarterly and Michael Hastings is a correspondent for Newsweek and author of I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story.

The Scott Horton Show airs Tuesday through Friday from 2PM-4PM Eastern at Antiwar.com/radio, where additional archives from past shows can also be found.

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 legitimate argument why the law shouldn’t count in this case:

Via Glenn Greenwald.

AWC Contributor in Court Monday

Antiwar.com contributor Neil Kitson will have his day in court in Vancouver Monday. Kitson is seeking information on prisoners taken by Canadian troops in Afghanistan. His requests have thus far been denied.

The hearing is open to the public. For details, check out Neil’s blog.

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 lawsuit that compelled the disclosure of the torture memos yesterday. But these are probably only the tip of the iceberg. Hopefully the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and supporters of disclosing Bush-era crimes will have sufficient clout to force the government to reveal far more information on the torture scandal. Obama becomes complicit for all the crimes he covers up.

I will be curious to see if the revelations of how the Justice Department tortured the law and rationality to set loose the CIA will have any broader impact on how Americans view the federal government. I ain’t holdin’ my breath.

Antiwar Radio: Ivan Eland and Harper Magazine’s Scott Horton

Ivan Eland and Harper Magazine’s Scott Horton will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Friday, April 17th.

Eland will be on at 2:30PM Eastern and Horton at 3:30PM Eastern.

Ivan Eland is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute in Oakland, California and is the author of several books, his most recent being Partitioning for Peace. His weekly column can be found at Antiwar.com/eland. The other Scott Horton is an international human rights lawyer and contributing editor to Harperâ€™s Magazine. His blog, No Comment, can be found at Harpers.org.

The Scott Horton Show airs Tuesday through Friday from 2PM-4PM Eastern at Antiwar.com/radio, where additional archives from past shows can also be found

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 Prison” “Black Sites,” including pretty much everything the Soviet GPU would have done.

In my interview with Danner on February 18th, he explained that the U.S. government granted full access to the ICRC in the understanding that the report would be kept between them.

Well, on April, 2, Danner published a second article: “The Red Cross Torture Report: What it Means,” and published also the entire text of the ICRC report.

We here at Antiwar.com just wanted to make sure you all had a chance to read it [.pdf]. Please do.