All Posts Tagged With: "torture"

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More moves toward transparency and accountability

So the news is still full of bad stuff, but I detect a change in people’s reactions to the bad stuff, in that calls for transparency and accountability keep mounting.

15Jun2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Catching Up

Recovery from knee surgery is going really well, but it has set me back on posting here, which is a tad frustrating with so many relevant things going on. This post will consist of snippets and links to a few of those stories. Beginning with last week, there was the story about federal bureaucrats spending [...]

16Apr2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Which bureaucracy flubbed the records search? US rendition flights stopped on UK soil

Today’s GuardianAmerica carries a story about US flights on “extraordinary rendition” missions—i.e. transporting terrorist suspects to and from secret prisons where “enhanced interrogation,” aka torture, was used—that had twice landed on British soil.  Tony Blair’s government had assured Britons that no such flights had ever landed on British soil, that Britain had not participated in the US [...]

21Feb2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

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