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Was there some event that happened just before 2009 that might explain why we went from “shrugging” at torture to caring about it?
Archive for the ‘Torture’ Category
September 10th, 2010
Category: Torture
The Ninth Circuit rules that the Obama Administration can continue to cover up the war crimes of its predecessor. The NYT calls that “a victory for Obama.”
September 3rd, 2010
The news service of the United Nations Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has a report out on psychological trauma among Iraqis. What Iraqis have gone through over the past 40 years rivals the suffering of any other people in the world, but overall, things actually look less bleak in terms of Iraq’s mental health [...]
June 1st, 2010
Category: Crime Control, Torture
Why are leftists so soft on crime and so distrustful of the law enforcement agencies that keep us safe from criminals? Don’t victims have rights, too?
May 13th, 2010
To right-wingers who say that the Arizona immigration law is necessary to protect “respect for the rule of law,” there is a simple two word answer: John Yoo.
May 9th, 2010
Category: Supreme Court, Torture
She was against them, when Lindsey Graham wanted to shred the Constitution to permit them.
March 4th, 2010
Category: Torture
Vatican II ranked torture with genocide and abortion; the Chilean Bishops threatened to excommunicate Pinochet’s torturers.
February 20th, 2010
Category: Torture
David Margolis clears Yoo and Bybee on the grounds that the dishonest memos they wrote to facilitate torture didn’t break any rules because they didn’t have “a duty to exercise independent legal judgment and to render thorough, objective, and candid legal advice.” Congress could fix that.
February 19th, 2010
Category: Constitutional politics, Law Notes, Terrorism and its control, Torture, Watching Conservatives
In light of the OPR report, it beggars the imagination for Judge Jay Bybee to tell us what constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment”, or for Professor John Yoo to teach constitutional law.
