The NY Times reports on newly leaked emails from within the Department of Justice. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/us/politics/07lawyers.html?_r=1&hp Discussed further by Glenn Greenwald. http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/07/torture_memos/index.html These leaks further support and strengthen various arguments already made by those calling for accountability, including ourselves — and
Jeremy and Reyna on CBS!
Stanford Student Speaks Out On Confronting Rice http://cbs5.com/politics/condoleezza.rice.confronted.2.999686.html A follow up to their story from Thursday Stanford Student Confronts Rice On Interrogationshttp://cbs5.com/politics/condoleezza.rice.confronted.2.998771.html
Rice's nonsense on torture
Oh wow, I only got around to watching this video now, and from some of the comments I thought she must have been making some half-convincing arguments… nope! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijEED_iviTA&feature=channel_page Well, first we upgrade al Qaeda to tyrants, okay. Then one
Rice references in recently released reports
This is reference material. I have gone through the two reports “OLC Opinions on the CIA Detention and Interrogation Program” , the timeline released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on April 22,http://intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs/olcopinion.pdf and “Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in
Remarks at dinner
These are my prepared remarks, what I said was some approximation to these. Hi, I’m Dan. I’m a grad student here in the mathematics department. Thanks for coming. We are here today because we’re concerned. We’re here today to make
This is your pizza. Go eat it.
I think this is amazingly good — at least to my own aesthetics. Just the right mix of seriousness and hilariousness, gravity and spirit, light and heavy, yin and yang. http://www.stanford.edu/group/antiwar/cgi-bin/mediawiki/images/d/da/NoMoreTorture.png This is your pizza. Go eat it. Are you
War Criminals of Tomorrow
An awesome video by a friend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O2KeDPTh3o “Condoleezza Rice is back at Stanford University. What does it mean for the Stanford community to accept an alleged war criminal on their campus? What does the pipeline of war criminals to universities
Articles about torture in today's NY Times
In Adopting Harsh Tactics, No Inquiry Into Their Past Usehttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us/politics/22detain.html Report Gives New Detail on Approval of Brutal Techniqueshttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us/politics/22report.html Obama Won’t Bar Inquiry, or Penalty, on Interrogationshttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us/politics/22intel.html
Another relevant regulation
This is a document I had not seen before. “As members of the Stanford University community, all faculty, staff, students, members of the Board of Trustees, University Officers and affiliates are responsible for sustaining the highest ethical standards of this
Rose fawns
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10154 This was a terrible fawning interview by Mr. Rose. I was not impressed. The only thing he appeared to push her on was whether or not to “talk to Iran”. This is the “debate” in US doctrine; what goes