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The loss of standards
LewRockwell.Com by David Calderwood 03/05/07 The tenor of moral standards is moving toward the complete utilitarian justification of force. As our top elected officials have said, ‘All options are on... ...
Khaled El-Masri: I Am Not a State Secret
Khaled El-Masri was mistaken for a terrorist and wrongfully imprisoned by the CIA in Afghanistan four years ago, enduring severe beatings. In a first-person account of his ordeal, he writes, "What I want... ...
U.S. Blasted for Treatment of Detainees
The U.N. human rights chief expressed concern Wednesday at recent U.S. legislative and judicial actions that she said leave hundreds of detainees without any way to challenge their indefinite imprisonment.... ...
US blasted for treatment of detainees
South Florida Sun-Sentinel 02/28/07 Th e U.N. human rights chief expressed concern Wednesday at recent U.S. legislative and judicial actions that she said leave hundreds of detainees without any way to... ...
Testing the line between despotism and a free society
Boston Globe by Scot Lehigh 02/27/07 Habeas corpus is now headed back to the US Supreme Court, in a case that will prove a fundamental test of US justice. Will the Roberts court uphold one of the oldest... ...
Detainees seek fast ruling from justices
Lufkin Daily News 02/27/07 Foreigners imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay want the Supreme Court to rule quickly on their legal rights, before the justices go off on their summer break. Lawyers for two men... ...
Growth spurt predicted for US prisons
Salt Lake Tribune 02/16/07 Get-tou gh policies that lock up offenders for longer sentences are propelling a projected increase of nearly 200,000 in the nation’s prison population in the next five years,... ...
Eight reasons to close Guantanamo now
In These Times by Karen J. Greenburg 02/12/07 The first detainees arrived in Guantanamo four months to the day after the 9/11 attacks. From the opening of Camp X-Ray — the first site of imprisonment,... ...
Colonel Ann Wright (Retired): Watada Follows Military Rules on Dissent
"Courage is not only shown on the battlefield by military personnel," says Ann Wright. "It takes guts and courage for a soldier to refuse to deploy to Iraq with one's unit because he believes the war is... ...
Gitmo case rankles Germany
A tale of torture and imprisonment told by a man with a scratchy voice and a beard flowing to his waist has shaken the German parliament and sparked an intelligence agency scandal that has engulfed Foreign... ...