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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

You may not think that I can produce DVDs as evidence for my claim. But trust me. I can. And then, when your brain starts to digest it, I’ll yank the DVD out.

By Thoreau
Some of the torturers at Guantanamo want to blame 24 for their misdeeds.  I know that some people here detest the show, but a few points:
1)  “Jack Bauer made me do it” may be a perfectly fine joke when reciting the Bauer equivalent of the “Chuck Norris Facts” but to hear a military officer [...]

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

This Summer, See America

The safest vacations for Bush Administration officials may be domestic ones, according to Philippe Sands of University College London. Sands reports that the military commissions act of 2006 may increase the likelihood of a future foreign war-crimes prosecution for those in the torture chain-of-command. Sands glosses a European prosecutor saying that "it would make it [...]