Emptywheel has a very interesting post up: On June 29, SCOTUS ruled that even enemy combatants must be treated according to the Geneva Convention. On July 13, Christine Axsmith posted this on her blog on the CIA’s confidential intranet, Intelink. Read on to find out what happened to Christine.
Wow – here is another great pick by the Bush White House: BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Gen. Bantz Craddock, the chief of U.S. Southern Command who oversees the controversial Guantanamo prison, is to succeed Gen. James Jones as NATO’s top commander of operations, the alliance said on Friday. Craddock will replace Jones as Supreme Allied Commander […]
Well here are the standards that our Commander in Chief and his little idiot Secretary of Defense decide to impose upon our soldiers: The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans “humiliating and degrading treatment,” according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that […]
You have to watch this: http://www.channel4.com/guantanamo I’ve been sitting here for the past two hours watching a documentry/film about the 3 british Guys who were detained at Guantanamo for months. It tells the story of their capture, why they were there, how they were captured and above all the relentless abuse and torture they suffered […]
Seems like Rumsfeld is pretty upset about the new allegations that have come out regarding our troops burning Taliban bodies according to Reuters. VILNIUS (Reuters) – Accusations that U.S. soldiers burned the corpses of two Afghan guerrillas to taunt the Taliban have damaged the American military, whether or not they are true, Secretary of Defense […]
On October 18, the Senate judiciary committee will start hearings into the ties between Timothy Flanigan and Jack Abramoff. Flanigan was nominated by President Bush in May to become Deputy Attorney General at the Justice Department. Abramoff was a lobbyist for Tyco, where Flanigan became a senior vice president in 2002. Flanigan joined Tyco following […]