GeneralThe Debate On TortureWith fears of a potential swine flu epidemic sweeping the world, and with the report cards coming in on Obama’s first 100...
Ottawa’We hope that you will find the report useful’Mark Danner has filed a second piece for the New York Review of Books on the torture that took place under the Bush...
GeneralWhen Enough Is EnoughTwo stories have dominated American news coverage in recent days: the first involved a public condemnation of the excessive...
OttawaDoes Michael Ignatieff condone torture?If Michael Ignatieff is a ninny, he is a strange kind of tyrannical ninny. At least insofar as his critics persist in repeating...
OttawaHigh crimes and misdemeanoursThe New York Times advocates prosecution for U.S. government officials who permitted or ordered torture of the prisoners at Abu...
UncategorizedBecause as you know, Berlusconi is keyDick Cheney to visit Georgia and other countries in the region. Because he just likes to be helpful.
UncategorizedDick Cheney is not Darth Vader, but he may be a marine crustacean.Or so it was proposed in this illuminating exchange from yesterday’s hearing of the House Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil...
UncategorizedOh, those RepublicansMy first thought about the Scott McLellan memoir as cash-ploy was :" How come it was published by Public Affairs?" They have a...
UncategorizedAliens ate press secretary’s brainOr at least that’s what it must seem like to Scott McLellan’s former colleagues . It’s not often you see someone go from standing...