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Monday 9th November 2009
Torture Update: Andy Worthington’s Excellent New Film
10:42 am | Central Intelligence Agency | Cheney | Rule of Law | Supreme Court | Torture | War crimes | Comments: 0
Andy Worthington, the author of The Guantanamo Files, is touring the U.S. with his excellent new film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo.” He will be in California later this week. Tour schedule is here.
“Outside the Law” does a fine job of blending the legal issues and personal details to burn [...]
Tuesday 28th July 2009
Martial Law and the War on Terrorism
11:16 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Cheney | Terrorism | dictatorship | Comments: 5
The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out the following oped today….
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Martial Law and the War on Terrorism
Or “One White House Memo Away From Dictatorship”
by James Bovard
The New York Times reported last week that the Bush administration considered sending in the U.S. military to arrest the so-called Lackawanna Six in 2002. [...]
Saturday 30th August 2008
Torture & Liberty
4:41 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Central Intelligence Agency | Cheney | Torture | Comments: 5
This piece from the July issue of The Freeman is now online here (in PDF) and here (in ASCII - paragraph breaks amended slightly in the version below).
TORTURE & LIBERTY Freeman July 2008
by James Bovard
Is torture compatible with liberty?
Unfortunately, this is no longer a hypothetical question. Many Americans who claim to support individual freedom also [...]
Tuesday 21st March 2006
My Cheney Tribute is now online
2:42 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Cheney | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Wiretapping | wool | Comments: 6
The American Conservative has posted my piece on Cheney’s revelation that he is exempt from federal law regarding national security secrets. Here are a few paragraphs from the piece:
The “my wish is the law’s command
Sunday 12th March 2006
American Conservative prints my hit on Lawless Dick Cheney
8:29 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Cheney | Surveillance | dictatorship | Comments: 0
The new issue of American Conservative (3/27/06) contains my hit on Cheney’s latest lawlessness. Here is the first paragraph:
“The biggest surprise from the shooting of Harry Worthington was Dick Cheney’s announcement that he is entitled to declassify national security secrets. Such declassifications raise the question of whether the president and vice president possess unlimited discretion to [...]
Friday 6th January 2006
Think Tanks as Military Bases
11:22 am | Ashcroft | Bush | Cheney | lese majeste | think tanks | Comments: 5
George W. Bush exploits captive audiences as well as any president. During the last four years, he has ritually gone to military bases to uncork his biggest inanities regarding foreign policy. There are some howlers that can only be tossed out in front of an audience forbidden to laugh. No one in a military audience [...]