December 7, 2005 By Brendan Smith, Jill Cutler & Jeremy Brecher How has the Bush administration gotten away with such apparently illegal acts as hiding intelligence reports from Congress, creating secret prisons, establishing death squads, kidnapping people and spiriting them across national borders, and planning unprovoked wars? Part of the answer lies in… Read More »
TOMGRAM: BRECHER AND SMITH ON THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY
December 6, 2005 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher Typically, when faced with a problem, the first thing Bush administration officials do is reach for their dictionaries to pretzel and torture words into whatever shape best suits them. Then they declare themselves simply to be following precedent (which turns out, of course, to… Read More »
WAR CRIMES: THE POSSE GATHER
December 5, 2005 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher Foreign Policy In Focus Diverse forces are assembling to bring Bush administration officials to account for war crimes. Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Mother for Peace, insists: “We cannot have these people pardoned. They need to be tried on war crimes and go to… Read More »
BAN TORTURE OR PROTECT THE TORTURERS?
December 2, 2005 Thousands of well-meaning people are mobilizing to pressure Congress to pass legislation banning torture. But the Bush Administration is maneuvering to turn it into legislation that would instead protect the torturers by eliminating a basic legal right. To stop them, torture opponents will need to be not just as innocent as… Read More »
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