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Students protest CIA torture
On Wednesday a group of students from the University of California Santa Barbara sabotaged a CIA recruiting presentation to protest covert U.S....
How Do Americans View the World?
This week, I attended two fascinating briefings on how the American public is thinking about the world. The first was a press...
Daniel Levin: History Take Note
Years from now, hopefully not too far off in the future, historians will note the heroism displayed by Daniel Levin. Who is...
Retired JAGs: ‘Waterboarding is Torture’
Just in case our recent array of posts and our organization's stand against Attorney General nominee Judge Mukasey are not convincing enough,...
Mukasey: ‘the last, best hope’…oh my!
As Raj Purohit and Scott Paul have noted, we are strongly opposed to Judge Mukasey's nomination to be our country's next Attorney...
Reject Mukasey
My colleague Howard Salter and I had a funny conversation a couple of weeks ago that evolved into this blog post of...
We are opposing Mukasey
We have been following the AG nomination process closely and decided yesterday that we needed to oppose Mukasey - here is our...
Democracy, West Africa, and the U.N.
The National Democratic Institute hosted a terrific (and huge, and really long) lunch yesterday honoring the Fifty Fifty Group in Sierra Leone...
Refugee Crisis: A First-hand Account
I was reading this important post from Riverbend blog on the Iraqi refugee crisis - 1.5 million Iraqis are refugees in Syria...
Who Got to Mukasey?
On Wednesday, President Bush's Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey reaffirmed our nation's commitment to international justice and the rule of law as...
Amnesty International USA: Overturn the Military Commissions Act!
Check out AIUSA's ad in today's USA Today: One year ago today, Congress passed the Military Commissions Act. With it, founding principles...