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...
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...
Links are collecting in my bookmarks so I’ll post these now for some quick reading and I’ll tie them into War on Terror, Torture and the American Identity Crisis later. Public Perceptions of Enhanced Interrogation, Ed Gillespie and Whit Ayres, August 26, 2009 Obama overturns Bush policy on state secrets, AFP, September 23, 2009...
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...