Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror Charles Fried and Gregory Fried 2010 W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-10: 0393069516 ISBN-13: 978-0393069518 Because It Is Wrong is an inquiry into the legitimacy of torture and the expectation of privacy in the age of terror (although I cringe...
Use the links below to go directly to the updates: Updated on 4/12 Updated again on 4/21 Recently, the website WikiLeaks released an annotated, edited video from the gun-camera of an Apache helicopter from 2007. The video shows the helicopter shoot several men, some armed others not, two of which turned out to be...
On December 14, 2009 the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a lower court’s ruling on a case brought by four former Guantanamo detainees against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. In the lower court’s ruling, it was determined that neither the Geneva Convention nor the Alien Tort Statute applied on the basis that...
There are plenty of hard facts; tail numbers from planes, front company details, fake identities, first-hand accounts of torture, redacted documents, and photographs given as supporting evidence. The book presents the history of the program, which was started in the mid '90s, ramped up during the Clinton administration, then put on steroids after...
Given the length of this post, it’s strongly recommended that you print it for offline reading using the following link: A theory I will be exploring on this site is the idea that America, as a country, is going through an identity crisis. I’ll be fleshing things out in a series of articles on...