SEE ACLU.org item as of May 5, 2011 here
Andy Worthington Osoma Bin Laden's Death and the Unjustifiable Defense of Torture and Gitmo here
Find plenty of related day-by-day items at the excellent for current items: Reader-supported News here
Be sure to take a scroll, at least, at the shocking background of Ashcroft just below and the questioning of presidential sanity in doing nothing to block the RE-hiring of the outlaw Blackwater/Xe company...
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Here's another on same case - with more reasons as to why it's counter-productive to torture here
In case you did not see it, former GTMO guard Brandon Neely appeared last night in the Piers Morgan show describing abuse at the base, opposing torture, and pointing out that a Texan sheriff was prosecuted under Reagan for waterboarding a suspect.
ReplyDeleteHere's a YouTube link to his segment (3 mins or so):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD8BDaNGjRg
Proud to say I was able to facilitate the interview. . .
From Almerindo
Almerindo E. Ojeda, Director
Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas
University of California at Davis
http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Others who've posted on the recent Ashcroft stories or related:
ReplyDeletehttp://nasir-khan.blogspot.com/2011/05/blackwaters-new-ethics-chief-john.html Mr or Dr. Nasir Khan is an academician/writer who is from Kashmir and living in Norway. His publications look very interesting indeed.
http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/ashcroft-to-head-ethics-at-blackwater/ Jessica Pieklo is a former litigator turned writer/teacher
Comments on Ackerman's article - Wired - have grown to around 560!
NPR.org (US National Public Radio) is unfortunately quite watered-down on this Ashcroft story as was their interview with John Negroponte right after the alleged taking out of OBL. They are not always quite this superficial and hopefully, many of us will call in our protests and/or suggest we hold back our monthly contributions until better journalism?
Or what would you suggest?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/04-2?print See Glen Greenwald "The Illogical Torture Debate"
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