You remember the George W. Bush administration word play which turned “torture” into “enhanced interrogation.” Not that Bush was the first, or the last, to do such things, of course. Two things happened yesterday, related to this. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the CIA’s rendition program employed “torture,” and the Senate Intelligence [...]
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Senators, Advocacy Groups Challenge NDAA
Challenges to the National Defense Authorization Act came this week from a group of senators and from a coalition of advocacy groups. From Michael McAuliff at HuffPo: A bipartisan group of senators made a bid Wednesday to end the indefinite military detention of Americans in the United States. Declaring that a provision of the National [...]
“Why does the 1 percent have 2 parties but we have none?”
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. NewHampshireSouthCarolinaNevadaFloridaIsItSuperTuesdayYet … First, I’m thinking about the residents of South Carolina, and want to extend my sympathies for the days of political ads to which you will be subjected until the January 21 Republican voting is done. In good news – assuming one considers having [...]
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