Fri 4 Apr 2008
The White House: The Green Light
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , Democracy , Globalization/EmpireNo Comments
By Philip Sands Vanity Fair May 2008
As the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guantánamo detainee wouldn’t talk, the Bush administration’s highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the army’s own Field Manual. (more…)