Law

No Surprise At President Obama’s Guantanamo Trial Chaos

No Surprise At President Obama’s Guantanamo Trial Chaos »

By Andy Worthington - The Public Record

Surprise is the last thing that anyone ought to feel on hearing the news that the Obama administration “has shelved the planned prosecution,” in a trial by Military Commission, “of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen,” as the Washington Post reported on Thursday, or that senior officials are “alarmed” by negative responses to the trial by Military Commission of Omar Khadr, as the...

September 3 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »

World

CIA Training Intelligence Agents For ‘State Sponsor Of Terrorism’ Sudan »

By Jeffrey Kaye - The Public Record

CIA Training Intelligence Agents For ‘State Sponsor Of Terrorism’ Sudan

The government of Sudan has been miffed that it cannot get off of the U.S. list of states that sponsor terrorism. It could be...

Sep 1 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Law

Would Al-Qaeda Terrorists Really Be Reading Harry Potter At Guantánamo? »

By Andy Worthington - The Public Record

Would Al-Qaeda Terrorists Really Be Reading Harry Potter At Guantánamo?

Every now and then, when the authorities at Guantánamo want to demonstrate how well catered for the prisoners are, a story emerges that purports...

Aug 30 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Law

Lawlessness Haunts Omar Khadr’s Blighted War Crimes Trial At Guantanamo »

By Andy Worthington - The Public Record

Lawlessness Haunts Omar Khadr’s Blighted War Crimes Trial At Guantanamo

On August 12, the US administration’s intention to proceed with the war crimes trial of Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was just 15 years...

Aug 26 2010 / 4 comments / Read More »

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Commentary

Another Swing And A Miss For Congress »

By Walter Brasch - The Public Record

Another Swing And A Miss For Congress

A federal grand jury last week indicted retired pitcher Roger Clemens on charges he lied to Congress. In February 2008, Clemens, a seven time Cy Young winner, voluntarily met with a House committee and testified he didn’t knowingly use steroids or human growth hormones. The...

Aug 25 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

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Operation Tillman: America’s Irrepressible Military Families Get A Big Boost »

By Jeff Norman - The Public Record

Operation Tillman: America’s Irrepressible Military Families Get A Big Boost

Toward the end of The Tillman Story, a riveting new documentary about football/war hero Pat Tillman and his family’s reaction to the circumstances of his death in Afghanistan, Vietnam war veteran Stan Goff describes the film as “an opportunity for reality to break through.” Goff...

Aug 23 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »

Torture

Guantanamo Guards Tortured 90-Year-Old Blind Man, Book Alleges »

By Sherwood Ross - The Public Record

Guantanamo Guards Tortured 90-Year-Old Blind Man, Book Alleges

Although U.S. officials have attributed the torture of Muslim prisoners in American custody to a handful of maverick guards or limited to a few “high-value detainees,” such criminal acts were widely perpetrated, likely involving large numbers of military personnel, a book by a survivor suggests....

Aug 20 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Commentary

There’s Nothing Wrong With Social Security That Taxing the Rich Fairly Wouldn’t Fix »

By Dave Lindorff - The Public Record

There’s Nothing Wrong With Social Security That Taxing the Rich Fairly Wouldn’t Fix

New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman, in his column Monday, is right to expose the attacks on Social Security as being the work of right-wing ideologues eager to destroy a government program that works, backed by cowardly Democrats who want to show their...

Aug 18 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Torture

Psychological Group Charges APA With Complicity In Bush-Era Torture Interrogations »

By Jeffrey Kaye - The Public Record

Psychological Group Charges APA With Complicity In Bush-Era Torture Interrogations

Coalition for an Ethical Psychology (CEP) has issued a press release on the eve of the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association (APA), currently underway in San Diego, California. CEP announces that it has sent a letter (PDF) to Carol Goodheart, current APA president,...

Aug 16 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

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The Ground Zero Mosque: We Are A Nation Of Laws, Not A Nation Of Emotions »

By GottaLaff - The Public Record

The Ground Zero Mosque: We Are A Nation Of Laws, Not A Nation Of Emotions

Crossposted from The Political Carnival. Time to vent a little, this time about the rise in very public, very unrestrained emotions that are infringing upon– and therefore reducing the opportunity to have– reasoned, rational discourse. The most recent example of this is the so-called “mosque...

Aug 15 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »

Commentary

‘No Drama Obama’ Needs A Strong Second Act »

By Walter Brasch - The Public Record

‘No Drama Obama’ Needs A Strong Second Act

The Obama administration is a welcome change from the Bush–Cheney years. Against severe Republican opposition, President Obama has kept campaign promises to reform health care, curb Wall Street excesses, create a federally-funded stimulus program to help bring the nation out of the recession, and to...

Aug 11 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »
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