Tag Archives : anti-terror campaign

For starters, Bush insisted that torture was legal. He bought into the official legal reviews on it, hook, line, and sinker. If his administration’s legal counsels said that no international or domestic law can bind him to legal culpability in times of war, then the advice must have been sound. Everybody dealing with the top terror-suspect Abu Zubaydah [...]

US President Barack Obama has allowed the publication of reports on the practices of the CIA. Some of these reports tell of torture that is illegal as per the treaty agreements of the Geneva Conventions, among other international legal limitations. He says those who actually conducted the torture will not be prosecuted, but those who legally defended [...]