Category: War on Terror

When the terrorist attack in Russia happened last week, I kept wondering if Putin would use this as an opportunity to clamp down Ashcroft-style. This was a quick turn around: Portraying it as a means of combating terrorism, Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday outlined a plan to eliminate popular elections of governors and individual members […]

Okay – I’m calling Osama Bin Laden being rolled out in the next 60 days. What do you guys think? I think we’ve had him for at least 3 months already and there will be a carefully staged media event of his ‘capture’. Place your bets.

This is good news. The court said the president may order a U.S. citizen detained as an “enemy combatant” — but soundly rejected the administration’s expansive interpretation of that authority, ruling that such detainees are entitled to contest the government’s case against them. And further Each of the 595 alleged members of al-Qaida and the […]

Keeping this tacked to the bulletin board: (thanks RoguePlanet) Freedom from torture is an inalienable human right. The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, ratified by the United States and more than 130 other countries since 1984, forbids governments from deliberately inflicting severe physical or mental pain or suffering on those […]