[Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights alluded to Plessy v. Ferguson , the notorious 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case that established the] separate-but-equal ... The legacy of that thought is what we saw at the Superdome. |
I find it extremely hypocritical that Washington is investigating this group for the 'crime' of traveling to Cuba. The U.S. government is flagrantly violating even the most basic norms of human rights - such as indefinite detention without charges, denial of fair trials and, most importantly, torture. There are far greater crimes at play here than Witness Against Torture's travel logistics. |
It is an outrage that the U.S. government put him before a tribunal that is essentially a court of conviction not of justice. |
It is not debatable whether the president can order electronic eavesdropping once Congress has passed a law making it criminal to do so. It is impeachable. The fact that we are sitting in 21st century America debating the issue of presidential power is ridiculous to me. |
It's chilling to read it, not because of one incident but because of what you see here, the United States was running here, was a two-and-a-half year interrogation camp, |
The big problem for me here is they're nailing these low-level guys. A vigorous defense is that this stuff was authorized from the top. |
The conscience of our nation is up for grabs. |
The fact that there are underground CIA facilities somewhere where people are being tortured has been known for a while. |
The President decided that he was no longer running the country as a civilian President. He issued a military order giving himself the power to run the country as a general. |
The president thinks the war on terror gives him carte blanche to go outside of the law. |
The Supreme Court has not closed the doors of justice to the detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. This is a major victory for the rule of law and affirms the right of every person, citizen or non-citizen, detained by the United States to test the legality of his or her detention in a U.S. Court. |
They couldn't show people what they were really doing, because what they were really doing was illegal and inhumane, ... It's such a fraud. It reminds me of the special concentration camps set up in World War II. They would take the Red Cross there to see there was an orchestra and all sorts of nice things. |
They have been very resistant to releasing the names. |
They have been very resistant to releasing the names. There are still people there who don't have a lawyer, and we don't know who they are. They have disappeared. |
This could be a big break if Pappas testifies as to why those dogs were used and who ordered the dogs to be used. It's a steppingstone going up the chain of command, and that's positive. It might demonstrate that it wasn't just a few rotten apples. |