Spanish government gets tired of judges playing Junior ICC.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 20th at 01:51 PM  | 

(Via AoSHQ Headlines) I will now treat the news that Spain has decided to put its judges back under some semblance of control and respect for sovereignty: Spain is moving to rein in its investigative judges from trying alleged crimes against humanity from around the world, a role that has led to high-profile cases against the governments of the U.S., China, Israel and others. Under | Read More »

Obama caught between rock and a hard place on ‘torture.’

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 23rd at 11:26 AM  | 

Rep Peter Hoekstra of Michigan would like to remind people in general – and the White House in particular – that the events of the last eight years didn’t actually occur in a vacuum: Congress Knew About the Interrogations Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair got it right last week when he noted how easy it is to condemn the enhanced interrogation program “on a | Read More »

Cheney Doubles Down on ‘torture’ memos.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 20th at 10:18 PM  | 

(Via Andrew Malcolm) Former Vice President Dick Cheney has indicated that last week’s disclosure / distraction involving four CIA ‘torture’ memos is critically incomplete, as it fails to give results. He wants the full story released: “One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure,” Cheney tells Hannity, “is they put out the legal memos, the memos that the | Read More »