Congress: Guantanamo No-Fly
Posted by Jim Harper
In a recent post that was meant to be funny, I noted the proposal to put Guantanamo detainees on the no-fly list. Wrecking people’s day at the airport, the cruelest torture. Get it? Oh well.
Anyway, that proposal – to put former detainees at Guantanamo on the no-fly list – was added to the TSA [...]
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Right and Wrong on Torture
Posted by Jim Harper
The debate about torture – or “enhanced interrogation methods,” if you prefer – has swamped the Obama administration a bit, as this Politico article discusses. Many different pieces of the fallout are covered in a Washington Post blog post, including the release of a Senate Armed Services Committee report.
Congress has seen a few bills introduced [...]
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