Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: September 3, 2011
While some of the documents warned Libyan authorities to respect such detainees’ human rights, the C.I.A. nonetheless turned them over for interrogation to a Libyan service with a well-known history of brutality. via Files Note Close C.I.A. Ties to Qaddafi Spy Unit – NYTimes.com.
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: December 12, 2010
This is my modest analogy. I was working on the draft of this when Obama came up with his hostage analogy. First, here is some background of my views on the torture debate from Paul Krugman’s blog: It’s interesting that the origin of the word “torture” has roots in the word “twisting”. When there hasn’t [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: December 3, 2010
In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A “confidential” April 17, 2009, cable sent from the US embassy in Madrid to the State Department—one of the 251,287 cables obtained [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: November 12, 2010
“Under international law, anyone involved in torture must be brought to justice, and that does not exclude former President George W. Bush. If his admission is substantiated, the USA has the obligation to prosecute him,” said senior director Claudio Cordone. “In the absence of a US investigation, other states must step in and carry out [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: March 20, 2010
The French experiment with torture doesn’t surprise me at all either.
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: May 22, 2009
It’s good to see that Martin Feldstein stepped down as a director of AIG. The man has been on two of Obama’s boards for months now. I accidentally discovered Martin through a book I read back in February. Then I was shocked to find out he was indeed on the board of AIG since the [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: May 14, 2009
So in the last week or so a major radio talk show host was banned from England, an important economist had nothing to say in his blog after a dinner with the president, and people were laughing at a white house dinner over wishing someone’s kidneys would fail. Then I see a famous host also [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: May 7, 2009
Perhaps the name for insurance, which covers you in case of sickness or disease should be changed from “health insurance” to “unhealthy insurance”. Then the over forty million people who don’t have health insurance would feel a little better about not having it and those who do have it will realize what it really is. [...]
