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The Red Cross apparently thinks that a number of senior Bush Administration figures belong in jail. Its report on “high-value detainees” from February 2007 has just been published by the…

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The Guardian identifies the Civil Liberties Villain of the Week: a group of government lawyers that hides behind the face of anonymity as the “Department of Defense Privilege Review Team.”…

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In an interview with NPR’s Terry Gross last week, Seymour Hersh stated that Vice President Dick Cheney had “salted” the military and national security apparatus with trusted associates who were…

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Wir sind durch Not und Freude Gegangen Hand in Hand: Vom Wandern ruhen wir beide Nun überm stillen Land. [Read more…] Through trouble and joy we have walked hand in…

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As I learned during a recent visit to Russia, it’s common to lay blame for every woe that Russians face—from the weather to the downturn of the economy—on the United…

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We do not pretend to have given any sufficient account of Coleridge; but we hope we may have proved to some, not previously aware of it, that there is something…

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Senator Patrick Leahy rushes to say that he was misunderstood, and that he continues to push ahead seeking a commission to deal with the torture issue. “I am not interested…

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Anthony Clark Arend and Stephen Bainbridge offer some interesting comments on the Audencia Nacional’s decision to take up a preliminary review of a complaint involving six Bush administration lawyers (reported…

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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow presents Colin Powell, whom she clearly admires, with a series of very tough questions. Most of the Washington press corps could learn from this technique: Powell doesn’t…

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Attorney General Eric Holder has decided that the Justice Department should abandon the corruption conviction secured against former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. The bombshell decision has nothing to do with…

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In the course of a recent college event, Sy Hersh made waves by talking about a targeted killings program operated by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) which he said…

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Barry Eisler started his professional life as a covert operations agent for the CIA, transformed himself into a Silicon Valley intellectual property lawyer and entrepreneur. He’s now best-known for his…

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On March 27, Eric Holder was formally installed as attorney general at the Justice Department. The event got little attention at the time, but it’s worth watching in its entirety…

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Richard B. Cheney is the consummate con man of modern American politics. He was taken as the ultimate Washington power figure, cool and always several calculations ahead of his rivals,…

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Peter Finn and Joby Warrick at the Washington Post: When CIA officials subjected their first high-value captive, Abu Zubaida, to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods, they were convinced that…

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Prepared remarks delivered at the annual meeting of Amnesty International USA in Boston, Massachusetts, March 28, 2009. A little more than one year ago, we found ourselves in the midst…

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I know you, and the lofty spirit you bear, And easily ravel out a clue to all. These are the trials meet for such as you, Nor must you hope…

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One of America’s NATO allies—which supported the Bush Administration’s war on terror by committing its troops to the struggle–has now opened formal criminal inquiries looking into the Bush team’s legacy…

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Neugierde. — Wenn die Neugierde nicht wäre, würde wenig für das Wohl des Nächsten getan werden. Aber die Neugierde schleicht sich unter dem Namen der Pflicht oder des Mitleidens in…

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Yesterday, I watched the tape of a Congressional hearing in which Representative Michele Bachmann told the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, that “China, Russia and Kazakhistan [sic]” were…

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The most under-reported story of the last year is, simply, the turmoil in Mexico. We’ve heard about kidnappings and assassinations, usually followed by warnings that the troubles in Mexico may…

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Just in time for the global financial crisis, EurasiaGroup president Ian Bremmer has a new book. Co-authored with Preston Keat, it is called Fat Tail, and it deals with one…

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As I predicted in a column in the American Lawyer, the Obama Administration has laid to rest one of the signature concepts of the Bush Administration: the Global War on…

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Sunday evening, President Obama responded in some detail to Dick Cheney’s claims that the security of all Americans depends upon imprisoning innocent people in depraved conditions outside of the rule…

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Last week Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson revealed what those who have studied the Guantánamo detainees long knew: the great majority of these prisoners were not guilty of anything more than getting…

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On Friday a jury quickly acquitted former Puerto Rican Governor Anibal Acevedo Vilá on all of nine counts of election funding violations. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: The acquittal was a…

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What would happen if the world markets began to move away from the dollar as a reserve currency? Reuters reports: A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world…

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Brendan DeMelle discuss the plight of one of the best known of the political prisoners of the Bush era, Paul Minor, in this piece in…

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