Andymatic

Category: 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

  • Obama's ‘Black Jail’ in Afghanistan

    How’s that Nobel Peace Prize working out? An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base. The site, known to […]

  • Birth Defects in Fallujah Up 700%

    How’s that Nobel Peace Prize working out? During medical school he had to search Iraq for case studies of an infant with a birth defect. “It was almost impossible during the 80s,” he says. … Drone strikes has risen dramatically since Obama became President. During his first nine and a half months in office, (Obama) […]

  • Mark Morford on Maine, Washington, the Bible and Gay Marriage

    From the always awesome Mark Morford: Meanwhile, there was a glimmer of good news up in the state of Washington, where they voted in favor of gay marriage, sort of, only they didn’t actually call it marriage because That Would Be Wrong, given how we all know “marriage” is a registered trademark of the Bible […]

  • Italian Court Convicts 23 Americans in CIA Kidnapping Case

    Watch carefully to see if this makes it to your evening news and how it is positioned: An Italian court on Wednesday convicted 22 CIA operatives and a U.S. Air Force colonel of orchestrating the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric here in 2003 and flying him to Egypt, where he said he was tortured. In […]

  • Senior Administration Officials

    Glen Greenwald looks at the sources for a news story about civil liberties, international and security: Here are all of Kornblut’s cited sources for the article — every last one of them — in the order she cites them: Obama aides pointed . . . administration officials said . . . a senior administration official […]

  • Torture Tells Us What We Want to Hear

    [T]he unclassified ruling in the habeas corpus petition of Fouad al-Rabiah, a Kuwaiti prisoner whose release was ordered last week by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly PDF. In the ruling, to put it bluntly, it was revealed that the U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated […]

  • DoJ Official Blows Cover Off PATRIOT Act

    In the debate over the PATRIOT Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people’s homes without their permission or knowledge so that terrorists wouldn’t be tipped off that they’re under investigation. Now that the authority is law, how has the Department of Justice used the new power? To go after […]

  • Indefinite Detention to Continue Under Obama

    The Obama administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new system of preventive detention to hold terrorism suspects and will instead rely on a 2001 congressional resolution authorizing military force against al-Qaeda and the Taliban to continue to detain people indefinitely and without charge, according to administration officials. via washingtonpost.com

  • Burying CIA Crimes Hurts Cooperation with Foreign Intel Agencies

    The former directors argue, for example, that any reopened investigation would damage the intelligence community’s ability to obtain cooperation of foreign intelligence agencies.In fact, the opposite is the case. Foreign intelligence agencies have been holding back their liaison activities and their cooperation with the CIA because of the crimes associated with secret prisons, torture and […]

  • Ex-CIA Chiefs Nervous About Investigations

    Seven former heads of the CIA on Friday urged President Barack Obama to end the probe into allegations of abuse of prisoners held by the agency, arguing that it would hamper intelligence operations. via Ex-CIA chiefs urge Obama to drop abuse investigation | Reuters.