By David Swanson
Doug Feith is bluffing big time, and he’s lifted Dick Cheney and George Bush onto the table as his bet. Now if only he could stop visibly sweating.
Feith’s Wall Street Journal column on Friday argues that Spain has no right to put Americans on trial for torture, at least not second-tier officials who provided pseudo-legal justifications for torture and advocated its use, actions
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By David Swanson
Good news is being taken as bad. Vermont constituents of Senator Patrick Leahy report that he’s finding very little support for his proposed truth and reconciliation commission from Republicans or Democrats in the Senate. Numerous people have taken this as bad news and cause to despair. I disagree. Here are ten reasons why.
1. The idea was never reconciliation with Iraqis, Afghanis, Pakistanis, Palestinians, torture victims, spying victims, victims of political prosecutions,
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Former U.S. Official Arrested in Italy
By P.V. Maro,
ROME ( ) – John C. Yoo, a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States, was arrested on Tuesday in Milan, Italy, and is being held for possible extradition to Spain, where he and five other retired officials who served under former President George W. Bush are expected to be indicted by a Spanish court for violations of the Geneva Conventions, the Convention Against Torture, and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal
