President Donald Trump’s nominations of Gina Haspel to lead the CIA and Mike Pompeo to be America’s top diplomat are the latest indications of steadily eroding human rights standards in the United States and the rollback of the rule of law that has characterized U.S. counterterrorism policies since Sept. 11, 2001.
“Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.”
— Thucydides
You’ve heard the platitude that hindsight is 20/20. It’s true enough and, though I’ve been a regular skeptic about what policymakers used to call the Global War on Terror, it’s always easier to poke holes in the past than to say what you would have done. My conservative
Hurricane Harvey brings to mind the devastation of predecessors like Katrina, whose death toll would have been reduced had the Bush administration accepted Cuban doctors.
Of the many stories written about Hurricane Katrina in autumn 2005 and its devastating consequences, one crucial element is virtually overlooked. During the all-important hours after the tropical cyclone laid waste to sections of south-eastern United States, the Bush administration ignored the aid of its Cuban neighbor. Cuban
If the immunity verdict is overturned, Tony Blair may face formal charges of war crimes over one of the worst foreign policy disasters in British history.
Tony Blair may face formal charges over war crimes if judges overturn a controversial ruling that gave the former Prime Minister, immunity from prosecution over the Iraq War.
Last year a British court blocked a private criminal prosecution against Blair by General Abdul-Wahid Shannan
“You know, they had their minds made up from day one. And then after 9/11, that’s when the death warrant for Saddam Hussein was signed.”
(ANALYSIS) --- Last month, former CIA analyst John Nixon made headlines when he asserted that while he was interrogating Saddam Hussein after the 2003 invasion, the dictator warned him that the U.S. would fail in Iraq. Now, Nixon has
A heavily redacted trove details death of detainees and draft letter requesting interrogators be protected from prosecution.
19-year old Ivy Ziedrich, a student at the University of Nevada, approached the former Florida governor to question him about comments he made during the event. Bush had argued that the Obama administration’s bad foreign policy was responsible for the rise of the terrorist group ISIS, or Islamic State.
The heated confrontation took place at a town hall meeting in Reno, Nevada, according to The New York Times. 19-year old Ivy Ziedrich, a student at the University of Nevada, approached the former Florida
