”The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law.” --…
According to a report in the New York Times, the panel investigating the CIA for accessing Senate Intelligence Committee computers without authorization will decline to punish CIA Director John Brennan or his subordinates. Buried in…
One of the more disturbing revelations that emerged since the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture was the fact that many officials involved in the CIA torture program not only escaped…
Courageous politicians might well be an endangered species. Political partisanship and polarization, “poll-following,” and attempts by bland politicians to avoid taking any position that might possibly offend somebody, stand in stark contrast to genuine political…
In the days following the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture, the CIA's defenders appeared on numerous media outlets and current CIA director John Brennan gave a widely covered speech defending…