In mocking California Senator Alex Padilla by referring to him as “Jose,” Vice President Vance has unwittingly reminded us of the Jose Padilla case. The Padilla case showed us how government officials use “crises” to destroy the civil liberties of the people. The 9/11...
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We Never Got to Torture Congress
by James Bovard | May 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
Folks who believe the current political atmosphere is uniquely hateful have forgotten the boundless vitriol prevailing a few decades ago. During the George W. Bush administration, Republicans relied on push-button rage to suppress all criticism of the war on terror....
Killing the Constitution at Gitmo
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
When British kings wanted to dispose of troublesome enemies -- real or imagined -- they often had them or their colleagues arrested on pretextual charges and then brutally tortured until confessions were extracted. The confessions were then read aloud during so-called...
Some Accountability for Torture at Abu Ghraib
by Adam Dick | Nov 13, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The released photos documenting torture of prisoners at the United States government’s Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq during the Iraq War disgusted many people who could look beyond the war propaganda to feel sympathy for their fellow human beings. Even if it was assumed...
Deal or No Deal?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Oh, what a tangled web we weaveWhen first we practice to deceive.”--Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) The case of the Gitmo plea agreement keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. A few weeks ago, we learned that a plea agreement had been entered into by way of a signed...
Gitmo and Politics
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Sep 19, 2024 | Featured Articles
It is always dangerous to human freedom and due process when politics interferes with criminal prosecutions. Yet, present-day America is replete with tawdry examples of this. The recent exposures of the political machinations of the Chief Justice of the United States...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the Problem of Torture
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Aug 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
In the months following the attacks of 9/11, the government laid the blame for orchestrating them on Osama bin Ladin. Then, after it murdered bin Ladin, the government decided that the true mastermind was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. By the time of bin Ladin’s death,...
The Torturers’ Poor Memories
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured Articles
As the pre-trial hearings in the case of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others who are charged with masterminding the 9/11 attacks proceed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, the government continues to stumble with its own witnesses. In hearings last week,...
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