Is a record $4.5 billion fine, serial environmental criminal” BP from placing profits before safety? If history is any guide, Scott West believes the answer is a resounding, “No.” West is a former veteran special agent-in-charge at the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Criminal Investigation Division. In 2006, he led an investigation into BP and the oil [...]
November 19, 2012 | Filed under
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Last Friday, November 9, Elisa Massimino, President and CEO of Human Rights First (HRF), hosted a press call with retired Rear Admiral Don Guter. HRF, along with a number of other human rights and legal groups, are calling upon President Barack Obama to fulfill his January 2009 pledge to close Guantanamo’s detention facility. Admiral Guter [...]
November 14, 2012 | Filed under
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Not content with having the largest domestic prison population in the world, both in numbers and as a percentage of the total population, the US also imports prisoners from other countries, at vast expense. Last week, five men were extradited to the US from the UK to face charges relating to their alleged involvement with terrorism. The men’s [...]
October 18, 2012 | Filed under
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This exclusive investigative report by Andy Worthington was first published on his website and on the website of the “Close Guantánamo” campaign, which Worthington established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Register here to participate in the campaign and receive regular updates via email. One of the greatest injustices at Guantánamo is that, of [...]
June 7, 2012 | Filed under
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Last week, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Director of the CIA and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, issued a two-page unclassified summary, entitled, “Summary of the Reengagement of Detainees Formerly Held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba” (PDF), which provided information about the purported “recidivism” of former prisoners. According to the [...]
March 15, 2012 | Filed under
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This report was written by the staff of Angola3 News and originally published on Truthout. British journalist Andy Worthington, the author of “The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison,” has been documenting the array of human rights abuses at Guantanamo for over six years now, after he personally became [...]
March 6, 2012 | Filed under
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This report was originally published on Truthout and written by Jason Leopold. Pfc. Brandon Neely was standing at attention inside Camp X-Ray along with three-dozen or so other active-duty soldiers attached to the 401st Military Police Company from Fort Hood, Texas, during the afternoon of January 11, 2002. A busload of about 20 “enemy combatants” [...]
January 12, 2012 | Filed under
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The shameful dinosaurs of the Senate — hopelessly out of touch with reality, for the most part, and haunted by specters of their own making — approved, by 93 votes to 7, the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (PDF), which contains a number of astonishingly alarming provisions — Sections 1031 and 1032, designed [...]
December 3, 2011 | Filed under
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U.S. President Barack Obama will be a lame duck next year and the officials in his administration, especially his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are hilariously doing their best to make sure that they haven’t spared any effort to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries and sabotage the stability and security of those [...]
November 16, 2011 | Filed under
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This story was written by Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. Morris Davis speaks bluntly about some of President Barack Obama’s policy decisions. “There’s a pair of testicles somewhere between the Capital Building and the White House that fell off the president after Election Day [2008],” said Davis, an Air Force colonel who spent [...]
November 14, 2011 | Filed under
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