The Associated Press A U.N. human rights expert is calling on the United States to prosecute or release suspects detained as “unlawful enemy combatants” and to move quickly to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Martin Scheinin, the U.N.’s independent investigator on human rights in the fight against terrorism, said in a report released Monday…
By Walter F. Roche Jr, Los Angeles Times A Defense Department medical services contract worth up to $790 million was awarded last month to a Wisconsin-based company three months after it hired a former Bush administration appointee who had supervised military health programs at the Pentagon for the last six years. William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant…
Jason Linkins, Huffington Post FEMA Administrator David Paulison, appropriately chastised by the “Anglo-Saxon” remarks of David Chertoff, wants you to know that he’s sorry for the pretend press conference his organization staged last week. A fall guy has been selected and dealt with, various personnel deck chairs are being reshuffled, and the whole episode is…
Mukasey Won’t Say Waterboarding Is Torture But in 1947 the U.S. Called It a War Crime, Sentenced Enemy Officer to 15 Years Hard Labor Posted by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review Immoral Relativism: George Bush’s nomination of Michael Mukasey for U.S. attorney general — once thought to be smooth sailing — is experiencing a bit of…
