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No Due Process at Gitmo Jul. 17, 2025
Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Shei... Read More
Killing the Constitution at Gitmo Jan. 09, 2025
When British kings wanted to dispose of troublesome enemies — real or imagined — they of... Read More
Gitmo Continues to Haunt Nov. 14, 2024
Here's a pop quiz: When can an Army colonel overrule the Secretary of Defense? It happened last week... Read More
Deal or No Deal? Oct. 03, 2024
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive." —Sir Walter Scott (1771-1... Read More
Gitmo and Politics Sep. 19, 2024
It is always dangerous to human freedom and due process when politics interferes with criminal prose... Read More
The Torturers' Poor Memories Feb. 29, 2024
As the pre-trial hearings in the case of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others who are charged with mast... Read More
Guantanamo: A Constitutional Debacle Oct. 12, 2023
When President George W. Bush formulated the concept of an American Devil's Island in Cuba, he did s... Read More
9/11 and the Politics of Evil Sep. 13, 2023
Three days after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the worst and most murderous attack on the... Read More
Trump Attacked the Core of Democracy. It's Urgent That Prosecutors Show It. Aug. 04, 2023
The famous question during the Watergate hearings half a century ago was, "What did the president kn... Read More
Biden Knows Section 702 Is Unconstitutional, yet His Administration Still Defends It Jul. 10, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Fifteen years ago this week, then-Sen. Joe Biden voted no on the FISA Amendments Act, whic... Read More
Enemies of All Mankind Mar. 02, 2023
Last week in a federal courtroom at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an American physici... Read More
War and Indifference Feb. 16, 2023
Which is more destructive to personal liberty, a government that engages in secret acts of war or a ... Read More
The Legacy of George W. Bush and His Torturers Feb. 02, 2023
In the days and months following the attacks of 9/11, the government laid the blame for orchestratin... Read More
Beware: The GOP Has Chosen to Embrace the Crazy Jul. 13, 2022
In the 1990s, the sharp-witted Texan and renowned progressive writer Molly Ivins regaled (and appall... Read More
Ukraine Tragedy Rolls on From a Cruel April Apr. 13, 2022
WASHINGTON — As the Easter Egg Roll goes on at the White House, Ukraine shows us what democrac... Read More
Bush and His Torturers Mar. 31, 2022
Last week, prosecutors and defense counsel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, completed three weeks of plea ne... Read More
More Presidential Killings Jan. 27, 2022
Secretly and quietly, the Biden administration has continued to use the killing machine crafted by P... Read More
The 21st Century: A Flop So Far Dec. 29, 2021
A child in the '60s, when the world was turning fast, I loved the upbeat '90s' carbonated peace and ... Read More
Bush Notes 'the Same Foul Spirit' Shared by Al-Qaida and Domestic Extremists Sep. 15, 2021
Americans of divergent political persuasions found common cause to unite around President George W. ... Read More
Foul Spirit: George W. Bush Mourns 9/11 and Warns of Our Jihadis Within Sep. 14, 2021
The president whose fate it was to summon the best of America after al-Qaida's murderous attack on u... Read More
