Britain Apologizes for Role in Libyan Dissident’s C.I.A. Nightmare
"A C.I.A. abduction in 2004 landed them in Libya, where the man was tortured by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s security forces and imprisoned for six years."
"A C.I.A. abduction in 2004 landed them in Libya, where the man was tortured by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s security forces and imprisoned for six years."
"Pompeo's newly unveiled 'Plan B' for nuclear negotiations comes around two weeks after President Donald Trump violated the Iran nuclear accord and placed the U.S. on the path to yet another war in the Middle East."
"The ACLU has sued over the practice of separating families at the border, though by the time that gets through the process, there will be much damage done to the children themselves, many if not most of whom came here seeking protection from violence in Central America. There’s also a strong argument that the policy violates international law and norms."
"The US increasingly looks like a banana republic, where the permanent state and not the people get to decide who’s in charge."
"How did a person who should be in the criminal dock both in the US and in the International Criminal Court for running a torture prison get appointed the Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency?"
"The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to force a public accounting of the current U.S. role in torture prisons across the south of Yemen."
"Thanks to a combination of sloppy drafting and clear reluctance to take the executive branch head-on, Corker and Kaine’s proposed AUMF could do the opposite, handing genuinely tyrannical powers over to the president."
"It appears that the only way not to be killed, according to Netanyahu, is to meekly accept imprisonment inside the prison of Gaza."
"This wasn’t some newborn infant, you know? This was a baby who could probably sit up independently. I was scared, but I acted quickly."
"That is the purpose of U.S. embargoes and sanctions — to kill innocent people in the hopes of achieving either regime change within a foreign country or a change of attitude within a foreign regime."