February 1, 2008
Military Commission Trial Observation
Human Rights First, at the invitation of the Department of Defense, is an official observer at the military commissions held…
February 1, 2008
February 1, 2008 – On Monday, President Bush signed into law H.R.4986, the Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. The DoD Act…
February 1, 2008
On Wednesday January 30, 2008, Attorney General Michael Mukasey appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee. This was his first appearance before the committee since his…
February 1, 2008
February 1, 2008 – On Monday, President Bush signed into law H.R.4986, the Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. The DoD Act…
January 31, 2008
Today’s Wall Street Journal chronicles the experience of do-it-yourself water boarders. And, yes, if you’re not a subscriber and able to read the whole piece, those…
January 30, 2008
During his confirmation hearings last October, Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused to say that waterboarding and other obvious forms of torture and cruel…
January 30, 2008
Senator Feinstein just asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey whether private contractors employed by the U.S. government are currently authorized to apply the so-called “enhanced” interrogation…
January 29, 2008
Today, the former U.S. intelligence chief confirmed that the United States used the technique known as waterboarding in interrogations. While John Negroponte was likely trying to…