just say no
Thomas Powers writes in The New York Review of Books: ‘The Biggest Secret’: In public life as in kindergarten, the all-important word is no. We are living with the consequences of the inability to say...
View Articletipping the scales in “balance of powers”
From the Boston Globe (Read the entire article) By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | March 24, 2006 WASHINGTON — When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he...
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From an article by R. Jeffrey Smith in the Washington Post, August 9, 2006: The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political...
View Articleny times on torture compromise: a bad bargain
It is the rule of law that protects citizens and nations from tyranny. When we agree together to adhere to a law that binds both of us/all of us then we have a standard to which both of us/all of us...
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From a March 8, 2007 article by Andrew Buncombe in The Independent: Campaigners have condemned the Bush administration’s plan to proceed with secret proceedings [Combatant Status Review Tribunals...
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Worth checking out: Ten Steps to Restore the United States’ Moral Authority: A Common Sense Agenda for the 110th Congress This document posted on the Human Rights Watch website provides a good summary...
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Some thoughts provoked by a lecture I heard last Monday evening delivered by Dr. Louise Richardson. Her latest book: What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat Dr. Richardson...
View Articledisheartened, but not surprised
Many Troops Say Torture OK is the title of an article posted at Military.com. The article discusses a report released today by the Army Medical Department detailing the results of a study of American...
View Articleif at first you don’t succeed …
It’s hard to see how this is just or fair by any definition. If this is the practice, why go through the bother of a hearing at all? Why pretend to adhere to any rule of law? The military system of...
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Our nation’s psyche is shaped by two defining archetypes: the cowboy and the preacher; the macho hero and the principled idealist; the adventurer and the reformer; the Louisiana Purchase and the Bill...
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