There wasn’t a more enthusiastic Obama supporter during the campaign than Andrew Sullivan. Here is what he wrote just now: The Obama administration will continue the cover-up of the alleged torture of the British resident. The argument is that revealing the extent of the man’s torture and abuse would reveal state secrets. No shit. This is a depressing sign that the Obama administration will protect the Bush-Cheney torture regime from the light of day. And with each decision to cover for their predecessors, the Obamaites become retroactively complicit in them. So what are they hiding from us? Wouldn’t you like to know? There is no viable excuse, or even mitigation, for what they did here.
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February 9th, 2009 | Category: Ahmed Agiza, Executative Powers Abuse, Extradition, Extraordinary Rendition, human rights, Jeppesen Dataplan, Khaled el-Masri |
 Leave a comment |  Print This | Paola Totaro, London Close but not too close: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this week. Photo: AFP A FLURRY of letters between the British Foreign Office and the US State Department has revealed that Washington did threaten to withdraw intelligence-sharing with Britain if documents related to the February 9th, 2009 | Category: Bush Legacy, Lies and War Crimes of the US Government, Lies of the U.S. Administration, Mamdouh Habib, Secrecy, Torture, UK, US Hypocrisy, USA |
Leave a comment | Print This | KARACHI: The government should set a clear timeframe before the people of Pakistan for the safe return of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and her children from the US custody, Human Right Network demanded Monday. Addressing a news conference here, HRN President Intikhab Alam Suri said that family of Dr. Aafia is under threat. He said that The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at former US president George Bush will face trial next week on the original charge of assaulting a foreign leader. Muntazer al-Zaidi, 30, who is considered a hero by many Iraqis for his protest, has been in custody since the 14 December incident at Bush’s joint news conference February 9th, 2009 | Category: Iraqi Detainee, Muntadar al-Zaidi, Trial |
Leave a comment | Print This | Mr Mohamed, a British resident, claims he was tortured A US military lawyer is travelling to Britain to urge the Foreign Office to press harder for the release of a UK resident detained at Guantanamo Bay. Lt Col Yvonne Bradley told the BBC that her client Binyam Mohamed is very Inside a Baghdad jail Video auto-starts so please click below to view: Joe Byrne The Obama administration has made the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison facility a high priority. One of Obama’s first executive orders, two days after inauguration, was that Guantanamo be closed within the year. Human rights activists are applauding the order, as well as his promise that all American-led torture will cease. With February 9th, 2009 | Category: Close Guantanamo, Detainee Abuse, Hunger Strike |
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