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... dinner party stead for years to come. You’re going to Sunday’s 6pm Green Light session, with PhilippeSands (and session chair Anna Funder).A lot of people have had a lot to say about the United States government’s use of extreme interrogation techniques – long prohibited under international law including the Geneva Conventions – as part of its ‘war on terror’. But few of those people...
Doug Feith's "Dear Jerry" letter The "torture narrative" has taken another blow. As you may recall, PhilippeSands' Torture Team (or perhaps more accurately the excerpts that appeared in Vanity Fair ) proved so persuasive to Jerry Nadler (D-NY) that he convened a hearing of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Liberties (under Rep. John Conyers' (D-MI) House Committee...
A British International lawyer, PhilippeSands, has recently authored and published his new book called " Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values " , telling of the US abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Called upon as a witness for the U.S. committee for Congress, he writes of his experiences with a forensic examination of the U.S. system's outlawing of torture,...
'It is a trite observation that environmental problems, although they closely affect municipal laws, are essentially international; and that the main structure of control can therefore be no other than that of international law." Thus wrote Robert Jennings QC, a former president of the international court of justice, in his foreword to the first edition of PhilippeSands's Principles...
Ross Fitzgerald; 9/8/08 Torture Team; PhilippeSands; Allen Lane At least until the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the US had a relatively enviable record of treating detainees decently. In 1863, former president Abraham Lincoln famously promulgated his “general orders” prohibiting ill-treatment of enemies and also of prisoners detained during or after conflict. In particular, Lincoln...
Thanks to Liz for pointing out Dahlia Lithwick’s article in Slate, which begins: The most influential legal thinker in the development of modern American interrogation policy is not a behavioral psychologist, international lawyer, or counterinsurgency expert. Reading both Jane Mayer’s stunning The Dark Side and PhilippeSands’ The Torture Team, I quickly realized that the prime [...]
... lawyer, or counterinsurgency expert. Reading both Jane Mayer’s stunning The Dark Side and PhilippeSands’ The Torture Team, I quickly realized that the prime mover of American interrogation doctrine is none other than the star of Fox television’s 24: Jack Bauer. This fictional counterterrorism agent—a man never at a loss for something to do with an electrode—has his fingerprints all...
The most influential legal thinker in the development of modern American interrogation policy is not a behavioral psychologist, international lawyer, or counterinsurgency expert. Reading both Jane Mayer’s stunning The Dark Side and PhilippeSands’ The Torture Team, I quickly realized that the prime mover of American interrogation doctrine is none other than the star of [...]
The most influential legal thinker in the development of modern American interrogation policy is not a behavioral psychologist, international lawyer, or counterinsurgency expert. Reading both Jane Mayer's stunning The Dark Side and PhilippeSands' The Torture Team, I quickly realized that the prime mover of American interrogation doctrine is none other than the star of Fox television's...
... in his book, What Happened , how deliberately the public was misled to foment the attack on Iraq. PhilippeSands’ new book, Torture Team , has shown how the top legal and political leadership fought for a policy of torture–circumventing and misleading top military officials to do so. Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side , reveals that a secret report by the Red Cross–given to the CIA and shared...
In May, British international lawyer PhilippeSands told Vanity Fair that Iraq war architect Doug Feith was instrumental in the Bush administration’s shredding of the Geneva Conventions. Feith “took the steps to ensure that none of these detainees could rely on Geneva,” Sands said. In a house hearing today, Feith disputed Sands’s interview, calling it [...]
... has revealed in his book, , how deliberately the public was misled to foment the attack on Iraq. PhilippeSands' new book, , has shown how the top legal and political leadership fought for a policy of torture -- circumventing and misleading top military officials to do so. Jane Mayer's , reveals that a secret report by the Red Cross -- given to the CIA and shared with President Bush...
Doug Feith was on the Hill today to testify about the interrogation techniques in Guantanamo. Joining him before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties was his nemesis, PhilippeSands, who goes back a ways...
Pacifica Radio is broadcasting a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Bush torture regime beginning at 9 a.m. EDT today. Scheduled witnesses include Former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith and PhilippeSands, author of Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values . Feith was interviewed at length by Sands, but Feith denied having implicated fellow...
