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Obama advisers: Bush era war criminals will walk

Even as President-elect Obama vowed "to regain America's moral stature in the world" during Sunday's 60 Minutes appearance, two of his senior advisers confessed there is no intent to pursue those in the Bush administration who engaged in torture, a war crime. Human Rights Watch, a non-profit watchdog group, is

lobbying

the President-elect for fast action on the abuses of the Bush era.

Serbian Police Tortures Bosniaks Muslims in Sandzak, Photos

According to the Sanjak Committee for Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms, "Although the authorities of Serbia, Montenegro and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were trying to prove there hasn't been any violations of human rights and freedom of Bosniaks [in Sanjak]... the facts were telling the opposite story." Take a look at photos of torture. Sanjak (Bosnian: Sand ak) is a region, divided between Serbia and Montenegro, mainly populated by Bosniaks Muslims. During 1990s, it was a place of brutal killings and torture of Bosniak population by the oppressive Serbian regime. Sanjak Bosniaks particularly suffered during and after the Srebrenica genocide.

Violations of Law May Be Classified, Court Rules | Secrecy News

Information that would reveal a violation of the law may be properly classified as long as it is not deliberately classified for the purpose of concealing the violation, a federal judge indicated this week.

That view, in a ruling (pdf) against the ACLU by DC District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, all but nullifies one of the principal limitations on national security secrecy contained in the executive order on classification policy.

ACLU Sues Arpaio Over Racial Profiling

Having witnessed this with my own eyes and being white I know for a fact they are only racial profiling. While they would wave and smile at me as I held up my non-US purple passport they just drove by. And then I proceeded to copwatch to protect the rights of others. Good thing the ACLU, AZ govonor, Phoenix Mayor, Mesa Police Chief and other rights groups are getting involved. Sheriff Joe is also a human rights violator by his degrading treatment of prionsers in 120 degree heat in tents as well as making prisoners wear pink underwear and running a racket on the consessions at prisons full of asbestos that are unsafe for humans beings.

Lawyers release Guantanamo video

Footage shows Canadian detainee crying as he is interrogated at the US prison facility.

Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo : Three killed in Jerusalem bulldozer attack

A Palestinian rammed a bulldozer into an Israeli commuter bus, cars and pedestrians on one of Jerusalem's busiest streets today, killing at least three people and wounding at least 45 before he was shot dead.

Abu Ghraib inmates sue, claiming torture

Former detainees of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are suing U.S. contractors in four states for alleged torture. The first complaint was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Others are being filed in Detroit; Columbus, Ohio; and Greenbelt, Md.

Congress subpoenas Cheney's chief of staff on torture

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) today issued a subpoena to David Addington, Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, compelling him to testify before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on June 26 for any knowledge of harsh interrogation techniques employed at Guantanamo Bay approved by the Bush Administration.

U.S. mulls Guantanamo closure as Bush term nears end

The Bush administration could announce plans by the end of its term in January to close Guantanamo prison and an upcoming Supreme Court ruling might be the impetus for this, senior U.S. officials and experts say. The government is under international and domestic pressure to close the prison.

Top Bush aides directed torture from the White House

Speaking to the WSWS, Francis Boyle, a professor of international law and human rights at the University of Illinois, said, "Clearly this was criminal activity at the time they committed it. At the very least, it violated the Geneva Conventions, the Convention Against Torture, the War Crimes Act, and the federal anti-torture statutes. Clearly these would be impeachable offenses."

The Torture Drawings the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to See | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet

Drawings by journalist Sami Al-Haj depicting torture at Gitmo have been censored.

Top Bush aides approved interrogation tactics: report

"Highly placed sources said a handful of top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al Qaeda suspects -- whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding," ABC reported. War crimes trials in the future?

Jeremy Scahill: Confronting Blackwater on its Killing of Iraqis

Last week, Jeremy spoke at a conference organized by NYU's Center on Law and Security called "Privatizing Defense: Blackwater, Contractors, and American Security." Also present at the conference were Blackwater Worldwide vice president Martin Strong and a lawyer for Blackwater, David Hammond. At the conference, I confronted Strong on Blackwater's killi...

George W Bush Sewage Plant In S.F., With Your HELP

To dishonor George W. Bush, the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is changing the name of the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility. The group would like to rename the facility to the "George W Bush Sewage Plant." Write In! If we can't get the overdue rightful impeachment or immediate war crimes tribunals this is a helpful start.

Trial by Fire: How Military Commissions Work and Why They Fail - Brookings Institution

More than six years after the Bush administration first introduced military commissions, finally we will learn whether they offer a plausible means of trying terrorists or whether the system really is the total flop it has seemed to be so far.