Doug Liman, director of the The Bourne Identity and Fair Game, has teamed up with the ACLU and PEN American Center on a collaborative film project to fight torture, and he needs your help.
Posts Tagged “National Security & Human Rights”
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The task of theater is not to teach a lesson, perhaps, but to arouse in an audience the energy and excitement of our own fragile humanity—the annihilation of which is the entire objective of torture.
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In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that government agents violated the Constitution when they tracked a suspect for 28 days using a GPS device installed without a warrant.
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Stacks of formerly classified documents about a torture program may seem like cold and impersonal things, but what they contain couldn’t be more intimate or harrowingly human.
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: detention, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Larry Siems, National Security & Human Rights, PEN America, torture
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I taught interrogation and the law of war for 18 years to U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine interrogators. The truth—uncontroversial among those who actually interrogate suspects—is that torture is likely to produce faulty information because its victims will say anything to make the pain stop.
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: 9/11 at 10, David R. Irvine, National Security & Human Rights, torture
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On September 11, 2011, Rev. Richard Killmer, Dr. Ingrid Mattson, Rev. Richard Cizik, and Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster discussed the formation of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and their collective work to voice the moral objections of America’s diverse religious communities to the...
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, United States
Topics: 9/11 at 10, Ingrid Mattson, Islamic Society of North America, Nancy Chang, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, National Security & Human Rights, New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, Rabbis for Human Rights – North America, Rachel Kahn-Troster, Richard Cizik, Richard Killmer, torture
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At Bloggingheads.tv, we’ve had more than a dozen experts come on the site and analyze America’s post-9/11 approach to fighting terrorism.
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In the aftermath of 9/11, the question was raised whether it was time for the U.S. to build a “domestic intelligence agency.” Could the attacks have been prevented if the U.S. had had the domestic equivalent of the CIA, like the UK has in its MI5?
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President Obama signed an executive order on his second day in office mandating that Guantánamo be shut within a year, but today, more than two and a half years later, all progress towards closing the place has come to a halt.
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People respect the authority of domestic counterterrorism policing, and seek to help it, not when they fear it, but when they see that authorities are neutral and respectful.