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More on Rendition
The Guardian ran an interesting article on Sunday that once again highlighted and called into question the relationship between MI5 and the...
Response to the Bush Executive Order on Torture
Today's Washington Post carries an important OP-ED by Gen. P. X. Kelley (commandant of the Marine Corp from 1983-1987) and Robert F....
Hicks trial labeled as “Shambolic”
An independent report by the Law Council of Australia has labeled the trial and detention of David Hicks on terrorism charges as...
Prosecuting Genocide
A few years ago I was talking to a former high level official from the Clinton Administration about Pol Pot. Specifically we...
The Lesson We Must Learn From Darfur
Faced with the horror of genocide, we struggle to learn its lessons - to discover how to make the unfulfilled promise of...
Cheney at the Center of Torture Policy
The WP blog carries an important piece from Gellman and Becker titled "Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power." It highlights how the...
A Fatally Flawed Approach to Foreign Policy
Detached from reality; surely that is the only explanation for the conduct of the member of Congress and/or their staffer when they...
The Other “Surge”
A reader at The Washington Note pointed out that yesterday was World Refugee Day. To mark the occasion, the UN High Commission...
Rule of Law v the dictator and the U.S.?
General/President Musharraf has, at least since 9/11, been viewed as an American stooge by Pakistanis of all political persuasions and at today's...
Extraordinary Rendition: Our Principles Betrayed?
Dan Simpson, a retired U.S. Ambassador and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist/associate editor, penned a great opinion piece on "extraordinary rendition" and the betrayal...
Key U.S. ally Facing Public Inquiry into Iraqi Torture
The British government is facing a pubic inquiry into their use of torture in Iraq after the Law Lords found for the...