The president’s broken promise of transparency has earned him the Donald Rumsfeld Obfuscation Prize.
Nat Hentoff Syndicated columnist (more…)
April 2009
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“Little Guantanamo”—Secretive “Communication Management Units”
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Prisons Designed to Restrict Communication of Jailed Muslims and Activists with Outside World (more..)
Sat 18 Apr 2009
Richard Kim The Nation 4/17/09
Even if every single national and international law approved of the interrogation techniques used by the CIA, would they be just? Hannah Arendt wrestles famously with a similar question in Eichmann in Jerusalem. Eichmann claimed, as a CIA agent on trial might, that he was merely doing his duty, that he “not only obeyed orders, he also obeyed the law.” Arendt, of course, found Eichmann both banal in his evil and culpable. Perhaps more to the point, she argued that the culpability of countless others (what others did or might have done) did not in any way mitigate Eichmann’s guilt. (more…)
Wed 1 Apr 2009
Katherine will be traveling for the next couple of weeks so the website won’t be updated as regularly.