Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell made an appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation, hitting back at Dick Cheney and other critics Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo.
Guantanamo
The Obama-Cheney face-off
It was close as it gets to a grand Lincoln-Douglas-style debate: on Thursday, Obama and Dick Cheney both addressed audiences on the issues of national security and civil liberties. Guess who was Lincoln?
Military attorney: Waterboarding just the “tip of the iceberg”
A military attorney who represented a former Guantanamo detainee tells CNN that waterboarding is only “the tip of the iceberg” in terms of torture in the prison.
Backing away from Gitmo pledge
The White House seem to be having second thoughts about their hasty closure of Guantánamo Bay prison, Cuba, with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs now calling it a “hasty decision”.
Essay: The many renditions of Mamdouh Habib
Let’s take a swift trip into the heart of darkness, writes Richard Neville.
Australia’s role in the American Inquisition
Did Australian authorities aid and abet the US in the torture and kidnap of Mamdouh Habib?
I interrogated Zubaydah: we didn’t need to use torture
A former FBI agent claims waterboarding wasn’t necessary to uncover any intelligence from Abu Zubaydah — they had it all before the torture even started.
Huffington: How we respond to torture will define us
How the US responds to the revelations about the Bush administration’s use of torture will define the country, writes Arianna Huffington.
Thiessen: Torture made us safer
The interrogation tactics used on terrorism suspects made the US safer, writes a former Bush staffer.
SSCI torture narrative
The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released a narrative of the general history of torture under the Bush Administration.
The Daily Show: We don’t torture
No-one is upset about the fact that America tortures, they’re just upset that they now know about it.
The story behind the torture memos
The circumstances in which the US torture memos were prepared and the process that led to their release may prove even more significant than their actual content.
In the wake of war crimes
The blogosphere reacts to President’s Obama release of the Bush torture memos.
Guantanamo case shows why courts are the big prize
It’s taken time, but judges have gradually eating away at the set of legal fictions supporting the Guantanamo detention regime, writes Charles Richardson.
Hamdan conviction the best the US can come up with?
If winning the ‘war on terror’ involves convicting the drivers and bodyguards of Osama bin Laden, the empire planners in Washington might as well go into speedy retirement, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Gitmo ruling: US marches boldly into the 13th century
Thus we march boldly into the 13th century, when Magna Carta declared a right not to be arbitrarily detained, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Legitimate test tube whale baby research?
Are the Japanese merciless whale killers or does their scientific research defence actually have merit? asks Crikey intern Lachlan Taylor.
They should hang their heads over the Hicks farce
Evidence had been obtained through prisoner abuse, and the Gitmo trials were subject to direct political influence, writes Irfan Yusuf.
