Scott Horton

Dershowitz Versus Horton on Lawfare: Real Threat or Illusion?

Heather Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Goldstone Report, Operation Cast Lead, Alan Dershowitz, International Human Rights Law, Lawfare, Scott Horton, Hamas, Israel, Human Shields, Palestinians, Attorneys, Debate, Charles J. Dunlap Jr., Princeton Club, CLE Credit, The LawFare Project, New York News
Heather Robinson

Rhetorical sparks flew in Manhattan yesterday as Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard University, and Scott Horton, contribu...

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By One Vote, U.S. Court OKs Torture and "Extraordinary Rendition"

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeppesen Dataplan, Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah, World, War on Terror, Torture Accountability, Terrorism, Bisher Al-Rawi, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Binyam Mohamed, Judge Raymond C. Fisher, World News, Politics News, Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Abou Elkassim Britel, Cia, State Secrets Privilege, Guantanamo Bay, Judge Michael Daly Hawkins, Scott Horton, Accountability, Ahmed Agiza, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Egypt, Morocco, President Obama, Eric Holder, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The ruling delivered last Wednesday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of five men subjected to "extraordinary rendition" and torture, is so troubling it takes a while to digest.

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Harper's On WikiLeaks: The National-Security State Strikes Back

Harpers.org | Scott Horton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julian Assange, National Security, Wikileaks, Scott Horton, Politics News

WikiLeaks' disclosure of the 91,000 U.S. government documents that it labels the "Afghan War Diary" raises a number of vital issues. Most of the discu...

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Witnessing Against Torture: Why We Must Act

Kathy Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo Uighurs, Center for Constitutional Rights, Bagram Detainees, Witness Against Torture, Bill Quigley, Guantanamo, Bagram, Scott Horton, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., World News
Kathy Kelly

Acting as our own lawyers in court, we aimed to defend a population that finds little voice in our society at all, and to bring a sort of prosecution against their persecutors.

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Where is the Outrage?

William Fisher | Posted 02.20.2010

Read More: Guantanamo Suicides, Scott-Horton, Glenn Beck, Cpac, Mickey Edwards, Dahlia Lithwick, William F. Buckley, Politics News
William Fisher

The media are not the only culprit here. We, the electorate, deserve a substantial part of the blame. Because most of us don't pay serious attention to much of anything that's going on in the world or in our country.

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Defense Department Turns Down My FOIA Request for Mohamed Al Hanashi's Autopsy Report

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohammed Al Hanashi, Foia, Doj, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al-Hanashi, Scott Horton, Gitmo Detainees, Justice Department, FOIA Requests, Gitmo, Binyamin Netanyahu, Politics News
Naomi Wolf

In December 2009 I submitted a FOIA request to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology to obtain documents relating to Mohammed al Hanashi's death. In response, I got the runaround.

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Laura Bassett

Rev. Killmer: 'Recent Allegations of Death by Torture Must Be Investigated'

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo, Detainee Abuse, Suicides, Scott Horton, Gitmo Detainees, Guantanamo Detainees, Torture, Politics News

A nationwide group of religious organizations is demanding that the Obama administration thoroughly investigate allegations that three detainee "suici...

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Guantanamo Detainee Suicides Were Possible Homicides, Military Cover-Up Harper's Reports

Harper's | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harper's, U.S. Military, Harper's Magazine, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Suicides, Scott Horton, Politics News

The U.S. government has long maintained that three Guantánamo prisoners -- Salah Al-Salami (37), from Yemen, and Mani Al-Utaybi (30) and Yasser Al-Za...

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Scott Horton Discusses Guantanamo Wrong-Doing On Countdown With Keith Olbermann (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Countdown, Video, Guantanamo, Scott Horton, Keith Olbermann, Mark Denbeaux, Gitmo, Seton Hall, Politics News
Huff TV

The Defense Department's conclusion that three prisoner deaths in Guantanamo Bay were suicide doesn't appear to pass muster after a report issued on M...

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Despite Rove's Spin Machine, Justice May Be Around The Corner For Paul Minor

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karl Rove, US Attorney Dunnica Lampton, Paul Minor, Fifth Circuit, Scott Horton, Justice Department, House Judiciary Committee, Eric Holder, Politics News
Brendan DeMelle

What happened to Paul Minor is not only unethical, but also unconstitutional.

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Condi Rice's Tortured Macaca Moment

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Condi Rice, Msnbc, Harpers, Television Torture, Philip Zelikow, Truth Commission, CIA Torture, 9/11 Commission, Jack Balkin, John Yoo, Sheldon Whitehouse, Moveon Special Prosecutor, John Conyers, Russ Feingold, Cenk Uyger, Bush Administration Torture, Special Prosecutor, Jay Bybee, Condoleezza Rice, Scott Horton, Waterboarding, Pat Leahy, Cable News, Keith Olbermann, Torture, Youtube Politics, Youtube Media, Media News
Ari Melber

Rice's recent incident shows the prospects for what we might call a substantive Macaca Moment -- using YouTube and citizen media to scrutinize our leaders on the issues, not gaffes.

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What if Instead of the Nuremberg Trials There Was Only a Truth Commission?

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Corn, Aclu, John Conyers, MoveOn.Org, Patrick Leahy, Jerrold Nadler, Jameel Jaffer, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Special Prosecutor, Lawrence Wilkerson, Center for Constitutional Rights, Barack Obama Torture, Michael Ratner, David-Swanson, Harry Reid, Scott Horton, ACLU Torture, David Broder, Torture Memos, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

As some liberals make the case against a Special Prosecutor, the lawyers who fought for the release of the torture memos push back and explain why prosecutions are the only response.

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Will Obama Prosecute the Captured Somali 'Pirate' in a US Court?

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geneva Conventions, St. Augustine, Richard Phillips, President Obama, Somali Pirates, Guantanamo, Wall Street Journal, Habeas Corpus, Bagram, Maersk Alabama, Kenya, Captain Richard Phillips, Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, Uss Bainbridge, Francis Boyle, Scott Horton, Somalia, Uss-Bainbridge-Somali-Pirates, Cal Thomas, Newt Gingrich, Captured Pirate, Pirates, Pirate Trial, World News
Jeremy Scahill

What would a "pirate" defense actually look like? Remember, some Somalis -- and other international observers -- do not exactly see the "pirates" as being 100% unjustified in their actions.

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Ask Obama For a Torture Special Prosecutor

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Blogosphere, Nsa Surveillance, Ari Melber, Robert Gibbs, Blagojevich, Gov. Blagojevich, Glenn Greenwald, Eric Holder, Brendan Smith, Surveillance, Obama, Spying, Jesse Lee, Fitzgerald, change.gov, Will Bunch, Bob Fertik, Rod Blagojevich, Macon Philips, Obama Transition Team, Scott Horton, Jonathan Turley, Rachel Maddow, Jeremy Brecher, Fisa, Torture, Special Prosecutor, Obama Transition, Politics News
Ari Melber

The Obama transition team is taking questions again at Change.gov -- while the press has fixated on the Blagojevich scandal, the allegations of torture by officials in the current administration receive scant attention.

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The Dark Heart of Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Terrorism, David Hicks, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Salim Hamdan, Military Commissions Act, Omar Khadr, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Daniel Dell'Orto, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Col. Morris Davis, Scott Horton, William J. Haynes II, Maj. David Frakt, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Vandevelt's profound criticisms of a system that imprisons juveniles and suppresses evidence relevant to the defense, is just part of a much darker narrative that has been unfolding for the last 18 months.

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