Banality of Evil Redux
IMAGINE ADOLF EICHMANN was never prosecuted for his war crimes. Instead, he wrote a book.
Rebecca Gordon|Saying No to Torture: A Gallery of American Heroes
“No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability, or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.”
Today is a sad day
Dear Senators Klobuchar and Franken, and Representative Ellison: Today is a sad day. It is the ninth anniversary of the John Yoo-Jay Bybee "torture memos," which were eventually withdrawn after unsuccessfully attempting to define torture out of existence. But it's our actions in the nine years since that time that truly sadden me. I am saddened More