Good Old Neon

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Yes, they are trained on how to deal with being tortured. But torture in a controlled,

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Brilliant A. Sullivan essay: The Bigger Picture It will take some time to absorb the full implications of the ICRC report and the OLC memos. Right now, many are understandably focused on the legal details, the grotesque specifics of the techniques ("insects", "walling"?), the inconsistencies of the memos, the weakness of the legal arguments, the human context in which some of these decisions were made. I certainly think we have to remember the climate of terror and fear of the unknown that followed the 9/11 attacks, a climate that dragged all of us, including this blogger, to places we n

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In which Obama does the right thing

The dude must travel in a coffin.

I grew up listening to Madden (which is not to say that I literally grew up as a result of something he said, or didn

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Wes Anderson tops my list of possible IJ directors

Andrew Sullivan - Obama's Moment Of Truth On Torture The question before the president today is not whether to prosecute his predecessors for war crimes; it is simply whether to allow the memos that the Bush administration drew up describing in gruesome detail the torture techniques they authorized - or to cover them up. There are zero national security interests in keeping such information secret. The ICRC report has already detailed what was done to many high value detainees, and the methods are unequivocally war crimes, and known across the world. To directly attach such torture techni

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In (sort of) related news: NASA photos show giant cosmic hand http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/04/14/s...hand/index.html Cue the "hand of god" stories.

Cool, maybe a larger budget will allow the pirates to dress and arm themselves a little bit more traditionally. Not to mention decent ships and actual planks to walk and stuff

Would it be too much trouble to maybe stop by a ranch in Crawford, Texas before heading back to Germany?

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Glenn Greenwald: Obama and habeas corpus -- then and now excerpt: I'm not searching for ways to criticize Obama. I wish I could be writing paeans celebrating the restoration of the Constitution and the rule of law. But these actions -- these contradictions between what he said and what he is doing, the embrace of the very powers that caused so much anger towards Bush/Cheney -- are so blatant, so transparent, so extreme, that the only way to avoid noticing them is to purposely shut your eyes as tightly as possible and resolve that you don't want to see it, or that you're so convinced of