John Brennan brings heavy baggage to his new job as CIA Director – legal as well as moral – arguably making it risky for him to travel to more than 150 countries that are party to the United Nations Convention Against Torture. It must be hard for Brennan to recognize...
Last week the US Senate took a break from debating the phony cuts known as “sequestration,” for Senator Rand Paul to hold a 13-hour filibuster to force the Obama administration to state whether it believes the President has the right to kill American citizens with...
Bipartisanship in Washington is a rare thing these days. However, no beltway battle in recent memory has been quite as partisan as the one over sequestration and its $85 billion in across-the-board government spending cuts. Yet, for all the rancor between...
Note: Justin's regularly scheduled column will be delayed. His next piece will be posted for Friday. The response to Rand Paul's historic filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan met with rapturous applause from civil libertarians and anti-interventionists on...
In Hawar village, a blast killed two policemen and wounded four others. Two people were killed and two more were wounded in a roadside blast in Madaen. Two bombs killed a soldier and wounded three policemen in Kanaan. An I.E.D. in Abu Ghraib killed one policeman and...
What would you do if you had evidence of war crimes? What would you do if ‘following orders’ meant participating in grave abuses that you opposed? Would you have the courage to risk everything – even your life – to do the right thing? Most of us would keep our mouths...
The most positive outcome of Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster – which ended when Paul was forced to take a bathroom break – was giving the American public a sense of the treacherous path that President Obama’s drone program could take, i.e. the targeted killing of...
