I Stand with the Speaker and Against Guantánamo
Washington is experiencing déjà vu. Republicans play the politics of fear and many Democrats run for cover. Republicans play the politics of personal destruction, in this case attacking the Speaker,...
View ArticleSecond Thoughts on Cheney Indictment
The following appeared originally in The Washington Times of Monday, May 25. I began having second thoughts about last week's column urging the indictment of former Vice President Dick Cheney for...
View ArticleSafe or Free
The United States treaty and criminal prohibition against torture contains no exceptions. There is no ticking-time-bomb exception. There is no “High Value Detainee” exception. There is no...
View ArticleComing to an Xbox near you: Escape from Gitmo
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee is set to play himself in an Xbox 360 video game about breaking out of the U.S. prison center. Yes, you read that sentence correctly. Al Arabiya reports that Moazzam...
View ArticleObama's First Great Mistake
Just two weeks after the Guantanamo Bay issue blew up on President Obama and his own party refused to fund its closing, things have only grown more bleak for his plans to shutter the prison by Jan. 22,...
View ArticleGuantanamo video game canceled
The developers of a controversial video game about Guantanamo Bay have pulled the plug on the project after complaints from veterans group. The game, called "Rendition: Guantanamo," would have...
View ArticleLet's work together to end child trafficking (Rep. Erik Paulsen)
Child trafficking is horrific practice that, tragically, is still a serious issue around the globe. A recent survey estimated there are over 150 million children who are victims of human trafficking....
View ArticleLawmakers diverge on Chinese organ harvesting
Lawmakers diverged Wednesday over how far to take their criticism of China's alleged organ harvesting practices.A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee unanimously approved a resolution condemning the...
View ArticleGeneral who opened Guantanamo calls for it to be shut down
Retired Maj. Gen. Michael Lehnert, who commanded the joint task force that established the prison at Guantánamo Bay in 2002, called Thursday for it to be closed.In an op-ed for the Detroit Free Press,...
View ArticleSenators seek to expand Russia human rights bill
Several senators are seeking to expand legislation targeting Russian human rights offenders to the rest of the world.Senate Foreign Relations members Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.)...
View ArticleGOP takes steps to rein in Obama
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View ArticleJudge orders release of Guantanamo force-feeding videos
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Obama administration to release videotapes of a hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay prisoner being removed from his cell and force-fed.U.S. District Judge Gladys...
View ArticleReid: Torture got us nothing but a ‘bad name’
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday said the only way the United States can move forward is to admit that torture occurred following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.“Today, for...
View ArticleAnti-torture protesters arrested in front of Dick Cheney's home
Police arrested two anti-torture protesters in front of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s home in McLean, Va. on Saturday. About 20 protesters from the anti-war group Code Pink, some wearing orange...
View ArticleTrump: 'I will not order a military officer to disobey the law'
GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Friday that he would not order the military to break international laws, despite calling for torture of suspected terrorists and the killing of their...
View ArticleFormer CIA officer faces extradition to Italy for Bush-era efforts
A former CIA officer appears set to be extradited to Italy over allegations about her role in the kidnapping and “extraordinary rendition” of an Egyptian man during the George W. Bush...
View ArticleTrump must keep China honest on human rights, starting with Nobel laureate
With China’s economic and political rise, the United States has abandoned serious efforts to press President Xi Jinping to relent on the widespread human rights abuses of his citizens. This is a...
View ArticleTrump can leave his mark by decimating human trafficking
Human trafficking presents President Donald Trump with an opportunity to show what he can accomplish when he is not hampered by political partisanship. It is one of the least partisan issues he will...
View ArticleSex trafficking bill would make the internet a wasteland
Last week, Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) released the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (SESTA). Don’t let the title fool you. It won’t stop sex trafficking — a worthy...
View ArticleIG says Pentagon backed Afghan units involved in 'gross violations of...
The Pentagon has used a loophole in law to continue training, equipping and otherwise assisting Afghan security force units that have committed “gross violations of human rights,” according to a...
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