AlterNet
Buried in Appendix M of the Army Field Manual, the Guantanamo virus is spreading, and eradicating it will require all of us to spread the word.
By Jeffrey S. Kaye, AlterNet
Posted on January 7, 2009, Printed on January 7, 2009
In early September 2006, the U.S. Department of Defense, reeling from at least a [...]

911truth.org
Sunday, January 4 2009
by Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories
Huffingtonpost.com
January 2, 2009
For eighteen months the entire 1.5 million people of Gaza experienced a punishing blockade imposed by Israel, and a variety of traumatizing challenges to the normalcy of [...]

h/t: Covert History
AfterDowningStreet.org
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2009-01-01 01:13.
By Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin, US Army Special Forces (Retired), Author of “Expendable Elite - One Soldier’s Journey Into Covert Warfare”
Immediately after commanding the memorial tribute at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, in honor of President John F. Kennedy on the day he was assassinated, I volunteered for [...]

The Washington Independent
Daphne Eviatar
via: SOTT
As every lawyer knows, language matters. Bill Clinton was famously impeached because his definition of “sexual relations” didn’t include oral sex – a definition that Republican lawyers didn’t agree with.
So does it matter if the interrogation techniques that were used, authorized and encouraged by senior officials in the US government for [...]

http://crooksandliars.com…
Susie Madrak
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Glenn Greenwald talked with Bill Moyers Friday night about the rule of law and how it was perverted by the Bush administration:

http://www.newsweek.com…
Michael Isikoff and
Mark Hosenball
The Bush administration approved the use of “waterboarding” on Al Qaeda detainees after receiving reports from government psychologists that it was “100 percent effective” in breaking the will of U.S. military personnel subjected to the technique during training, according to documents released today by a Senate Committee.

http://www.guardian.co.uk…
The Bush administration’s approval of the abuse of detainees is a toxic legacy for the next US president
Philippe Sands
The Guardian, Saturday October 18 2008
As the US presidential election reaches a climax against the background of the financial crisis, another silent, dark, time bomb of an issue hangs over the two candidates: torture. For now, there [...]

http://rawstory.com…
h/t: blacklistednews.com
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently became the first Bush administration official to admit that high-level discussions of the use of torture had taken place in 2002 and 2003.

http://www.washingtonpost.com…
Colonel Tells Senate Panel How U.S. Training Program Was Adapted for Use Against Iraqi Detainees
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 26, 2008; A17
The techniques themselves — forced nudity, sleep deprivation, painful shackling — had been used for years to prepare U.S. fighter pilots for possible capture by an enemy. But Col. Steven Kleinman, an [...]

http://www.consortiumnews.com/…
By Robert Parry
August 12, 2008
It’s touching how American neoconservatives who have no regard for international law when they want to invade some troublesome country have developed a sudden reverence for national sovereignty.