Geneva Conventions

As with justice, logic is in short supply in the executive's approach to terror suspects, who have been deprived of the protections of the Geneva Conventions to make false confessions.

The US administration's basis for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the "War on Terror" belongs in a fantasy world. At the heart of this fantasy world are the Combatant Status Review Tribunals.

Read this incredible article by Warren Strobel of McClatchy Newspapers 'The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and conc...

While some may say this emperor (Bush) has no clothes, he's still managed to hide his derriere better, and operate with impunity more effectively, than any in recent memory.

Lynndie England of Abu Ghraib fame was a blip on torture's radar screen, and women would like to keep it that way. But what infuses men with the urge to torture?

When Supreme Court Justices are so disheartened and frustrated by a President's refusal to enforce the law they are compelled to speak out publicly, it's a dismal indication of the dispiriting political climate in which we live.

Five years ago today, just before dawn broke over Baghdad, U.S. forces launched the Iraq War by dropping four bunker-buster bombs and forty Tomahawk missiles on a palace compound.

Bush's veto of the 2008 Intelligence Authorization Act has very little to do with Al Qaeda or even torture and everything to do with November 4th.

Those responsible for waterboarding must be held accountable. There are only two ways to do this: prosecution or impeachment.

If America continues to have people secretly boxed within secret boxes, which house more secret boxes filled with even more secret people, then we cannot continue calling ourselves a democracy.

The United States is now considered the country that poses the most severe threat to world peace. The increasing global hostility to the U.S. is a serious threat to both our influence in world affairs and our national security.

Tomorrow's hearing is of colossal importance, not only to the detainees in Guantánamo, many of whom are about to start their seventh year of imprisonment without charge or trial, but also to the government.

Surely the Court will not decide on Dec. 5 that Bush has succeeded in placing the detainees beyond the reach of our federal courts by sending them to Guantánamo.

As we begin the fifth holiday season without a redeployment plan, we are faced with two choices: Either we continue to stick with a policy that sacrifices American blood or we can listen to the American people.

Criminal liability of this White House will have wider repercussions than Mr. Mukasey's confirmation. It will reverberate through his tenure as Attorney General, and beyond the end of the Bush administration.

The stories of the Guantánamo detainees do nothing to bolster the administration's claims that those detained in the "War on Terror" were so dangerous that it was worth breaking domestic and international law and introducing torture as official US policy.

Enough double-talk and obfuscations from the Republicans. Let's get it out in the open: who believes the United States should never use torture, and who does not?

America, at its core, and our troops, represent everything the polar opposite that Saddam represented. But, it's hard to show that when Iraqis know that we employ the use of torture.

HuffPo headline today: "CIA Bans Use Of Water-Boarding During Interrogations" So, what, now they can only use it during breaks between interrogations? Ba-dump-bump-gurgle.