By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 5:42pm
According to House Intelligence Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Tex., former attorney general John Ashcroft confirmed the testimony of his former deputy, James Comey, that there were deep fractures within the Justice Department and White House over
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 2:22pm
Incidentally, Senators Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Biden (D-Del.) signed on as co-sponsors of the Harkin close-Gitmo bill (S. 1469) yesterday. Senator Dodd's been on since the 13th.
The U.S. announced the transfer Tuesday of six Guantanamo Bay prisoners back to their home countries, including one who, according to his lawyers, now may face abuse in Tunisia for nonviolent political activities.
With the transfer of four men to Yemen and two to Tunis
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 5:17pm
More from the Seymour Hersh's blockbuster Taguba story.
Nevertheless, Rumsfeld, in his appearances before the Senate and the House Armed Services Committees on May 7th, claimed to have had no idea of the extensive abuse. “It breaks our hearts that in fact someone didn’t say, ‘Wait, look, this is terrible. W
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 2:07pm
From what I know of the history, I never really thought that Seymour Hersh's Abu Ghraib reporting was of the magnitude of his My Lai scoop during Vietnam. I got the feeling that public sentiment hadn't turned enough for the abuse of Iraqi detainees to really raise any widespread hackles beyond the center-right of the country. Now, however, Hersh has <
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 9:59am
Happy Birthday, HC! Your very existence has kept countless people from being arbitrarily imprisoned for an indefinite length of time solely because those in power believed they had the right to do so. Freedom vanishes when only a select few have exclusive rights which are not granted to others; your guarantee against arbitrary imprisonment will
