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An Interrogator Speaks
I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfully hunted down one of the…
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The Torture Memos Won't Go Away
In the Afterword to her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, Jane Mayer states: "The number…
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What Beverly Eckert Can Teach Us About Seeking Accountability
With each new sudden loss of life, like the crash of a Continental Airlines flight near Buffalo on February 13, a fresh awareness of the fragility of life and a…
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Business as Usual?
The past week has seen some alarming news stories (and bloggers trying to figure out how alarming) suggesting that the Obama administration may be backing away from commitments made on…
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Sri Lanka: Suicide Bombers and Impunity
The opposition Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka are well-known for their use of suicide bombers, especially female bombers. So I wasn’t shocked to hear on the radio yesterday the words…
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Both Illegal and Dumb
This weekend saw the publication of two powerful opinion pieces on the futility of using torture as an interrogation tool. Writing in The (London) Times on Friday General Lord Guthrie,…
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Macho Posturing Does Not Make Us Safer
Speaking to Politico last Tuesday, former Vice-President Richard Cheney opined: “When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are…
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Silence Is Betrayal
Over 10 years ago, I worked in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. As a legal advisor, I researched Israeli policy and practice of demolishing the homes of Palestinians. In the night,…
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There's nothing backwards about accountability.
What’s all this talk about not wanting to look backward? Inquiries from the ACLU to the U.S. Senate produce more and more evidence that the U.S. government not only violated…
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Exec Orders – Did you see the part about contractors?
One positive piece of President Obama’s much heralded executive orders that seems to be overlooked in all the excitement is the unambiguous statement that contractor abuses fall within the scope…
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Freed GTMO Detainee Becomes Al Qaeda Chief? Blame Bush (and Clinton).
In a case of interesting timing, today’s New York Times reports in "Freed by U.S., Saudi Becomes a Qaeda Chief"  that a former Guantanamo detainee is now a deputy leader of…
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Call To Action, Obama's Orders
The Counter Terror With Justice campaign and Amnesty International volunteers were on the National Mall yesterday, gathering 100 Days petition signatures before the inauguration and wearing orange and holding signs on the…