The media is failing Americans again by buying into the narrative that there is a real debate if using torture actually helped or did not help track down Osama Bin Laden. It is simply logically invalid to let the...
As far as Sgt. Bergdahl is concerned, I think he should be given the benefit of doubt. We don't know what he witnessed to make him walk off into the enemy territory. Some soldiers are more attuned to combat while others are less so. I feel that he was overcome by his experience.
The GAO released a long awaited report on CIA abuse of prisoners during the Bush years. It documents many things we know and many things we did not.
"CIA report: 'Inhumane' tactics used on detainees
WASHINGTON – CIA interrogators threatened...
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
- Auden
St Francis of Assissi had, to be sure, an odd relationship with his body. As a strict ascetic, he...
CNN Poll: Americans want KSM tried in military court
Washington (CNN) – Two-thirds of Americans disagree with the Obama administration's decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a civilian court rather than a military court, according to a new national...
In an interesting development relating to the story I published yesterday, three leading conservative figures: Bob Barr, Grover Norquist and David Keene; support trying and holding terror suspects in US. When I read this I truly thought "did hell...
FINALLY, an Attorney General & a President that actually EMBRACE our Constitution & have not only RESPECT for it's precepts, but FAITH in them as well.
The right wing has launched an all out deluge of criticism on AG Holder and President Obama because they have decided to try KSM and top Gitmo detainees in American civil courts. While I've read over half a dozen...
What we know confidently now is that torture did take place under the Bush Administration by the CIA, that it didn't work or help keep Americans safe, that it permanently undermined our nation's moral authority in the world and that there is absolutely no regret or apology from those who oversaw and committed it.
