YahooNews/AFP Tuesday April 3, 10:46 AM Guantanamo detainee Hicks feared US interrogators would shoot him Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks feared he would be shot unless he cooperated with US interrogators in Afghanistan, according to a sworn statement presented to a British court. In the affidavit, Hicks said he was slapped, kicked, punched and…
bbcnews.com Amnesty International said the often harsh and inhumane conditions at the camp were “pushing people to the edge”. It called for the facility to be closed and for plans for “unfair” military commission trials to be abandoned. Many of the 385 inmates have been held for five years or more, unable to mount a…
By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY A newly formed consulting firm hired to account for more than $7.3 billion in Iraqi reconstruction money did not deliver a database that could help investigators track waste and fraud, a recent report found. The result: Two years after uncovering one major fraud case, auditors still haven’t determined whether there…
By David Swanson, afterdowningstreet.org Imagine a president who violates numerous laws that predate his presidency. Imagine that Congress redundantly and repeatedly re-bans that criminal behavior. Imagine a president who repeatedly throws out the new bans with signing statements and continues to violate the same laws. This is the heart of the matter of the Bush…
