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Nuremberg Trials

KSM: Ready For His Closeup?

Michael Smerconish | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nyc, Judiciary Committee, Senator Specter, Ksm, Civilian Trial, Eric Holder, Arlen Specter, KSM Trial, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Nuremberg Trials, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial, 9/11, Politics News
Michael Smerconish

Sen. Arlen Specter would like to see Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's trial be televised, stemming from a prosecutorial belief that trying him in a federal civilian court is the right decision.

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Imagine if the Today's Right-Wing Were Around for Nuremberg

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama-Bows-to-Japanese-Emperor, Right Wing Media, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Nuremberg Trials, Marshall Plan, Rush Limbaugh, Demagogue, George W. Bush, Bow-Gate, King Abdullah, Right Wing, Glenn Beck, Ksm, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

The right-wing radicals, unanimous in their agreement that KSM should not be tried in the U.S. courts, aren't just crazy, they're un-American. We don't take people out and shoot them without trials.

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Losing Wars We Already Won (Part I): Torture vs. WWII

Shahid Buttar | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Investigation, Nuremberg Trials, Human Rights, Cold War, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Torture, Wwii, Criminal Justice System, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo, Criminal Justice, John Durham, Veterans, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Despite public pressure from voices across the political spectrum, the Obama administration continues to sweep torture under the rug.

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The Reckoning -- Interview with Director Pamela Yates

Robyn Hillman-Harrigan | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Pamela Yates, Nuremberg Trials, Human Rights, Sudan, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Darfur Sudan, International Criminal Court, World News
Robyn Hillman-Harrigan

The film was stark and penetrating. It discussed the worst war crimes and crimes against humanity of our time, but did so in a rational, rights based justice context.

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Torturing the Rule of Law

Shahid Buttar | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuremberg Trials, Rule of Law, Obama Torture Prosecutions, International Law, Criminal Justice, Discrimination, Eric Holder, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Our nation continues to undermine international law by sweeping torture under the rug, with serious implications going forward.

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We Can't Handle the Lie!

Shannyn Moore | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Jay Bybee, Germany, Waterboarding, Terrorists, Nuremberg Trials, Torture, John Yoo, Guantanamo Torture, Obama, Dick Cheney Torture, Tokyo Tribunals, David Addington, Bruce Springsteen, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

If a picture tells a thousand words, the pictures now being held back by Obama, scream volumes. Their testimony demands the light of day much like the men in our containment.

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Fear and Loathing of Change

Shannyn Moore | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Memos, Nuremberg Trials, President Obama, Torture, Timothy McVeigh, Rule of Law, Gitmo, Obama, President Bush, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

I'm not a lawyer. I can't see a law school from my house. But I know the dark, twisted, sick, fetish language in the torture memos is not what America stands for.

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Obama Stands Nuremberg on its Head

Mike Farrell | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Nuremberg Trials, Justice Robert Jackson, Cia, Torture, International Law, Torture Memos, Politics News
Mike Farrell

By what moral or ethical standard does a rational person determine that smashing a shackled human being's head into a wall is legal, let alone acceptable?

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Living Memory, Torture, and Trials

Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Nuremberg Trials, Jay Bybee, Rule of Law, John Yoo, Bybee Memo, Torture, John Yoo Memo, Prosecution, World News
Terry Curtis Fox

If we who prosecuted Germans at Nuremberg refuse to hold Americans to the same standard, we are depriving Nuremberg of its precedential value.

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Salim Hamdan's Tribunal and the Strength of the Constitution

Jonathan Mahler | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nuremberg Trials, Salim Hamdan, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, Politics News
Jonathan Mahler

Four-and-a-half years ago I profiled Hamdan's newly assigned defense lawyer, a JAG lawyer named Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift -- a gift from the magazine gods.

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Folly and Injustice: Salim Hamdan's Guantanamo Trial

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Terrorism, Ali Soufan, Neal Katyal, Guantanamo Detainees, Judge James Robertson, Guantanamo, Prisoners of War, Salim Hamdan, Military Commissions Act, US District Court, Detainee Treatment Act, Military Commissions, Nuremberg Trials, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Col. Morris Davis, Politics News
Andy Worthington

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.

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Dennis Kucinich's Impeachment Resolution Could Be Helpful in a Future War Crimes Trial

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Impeachment, Klaus Barbie, Nuremberg Trials, Augusto Pinochet, Dennis Kucinich, George W. Bush, Bush Impeachment, Dennis Kucinich Impeachment, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Bush has embarked on his "Farewell Tour" of European capitals. But if he travels abroad when he is no longer president, he stands a good chance of being detained and charged with war crimes.

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