Tag: geneva conventions

Obama signs an executive order closing Gitmo within a year. He also signed another one saying we will interrogate pursuant to the Geneva Conventions and Army field manual

Of course we are talking about torture, and the bill Bush wants to veto is the intelligence bill that passed in the House yesterday, mostly across party lines: The White House threatened to veto the measure this week in a lengthy statement, highlighting more than 11 areas of disagreement with the bill. The administration particularly […]

Our nation has now turned back the hands of time to a point in history before we were actually a nation: The Senate, siding with President Bush shortly after he personally lobbied lawmakers at the Capitol, rejected a move Thursday by a leading Republican to allow terrorism suspects to challenge their imprisonment in court. The […]

Bush is losing support in all corners now: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, parting company with President Bush, came out against harsh interrogations of terror suspects even as the president lobbied personally for it on Capitol Hill Thursday. “I will resist any bill that does not enable this program to go forward with legal […]

Now the Republican White House does not like Republican passed laws: An obscure law approved by a Republican-controlled Congress a decade ago has made the Bush administration nervous that officials and troops involved in handling detainee matters might be accused of committing war crimes, and prosecuted at some point in U.S. courts. Senior officials have […]

This was the big ruling everyone was waiting on and Bush suffered a big blow on it: The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Bush administration did not have the legal authority to go forward with military tribunals for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba. The 5-3 ruling means officials […]

Arguments are once again heating up over detainee treatment at Guantanamo Bay. This time it is not from some U.N. group or international human rights organization: Via UPI: Blair: Guantanamo ‘must be stopped’ LONDON, Nov. 22 (UPI) — The U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is an “anomaly that has to be dealt with,” […]

While the country waits for the release of the latest rounds of Abu Gharib abuse photos to emerge, news is coming out of Australia that U.S. soldiers burned bodies of Taliban rebels in an effort to taunt their opponenets. The following is from Australia’s Fairfax Digital where they have obtained footage of this act: Film […]