…and, oh yeah, he’s still a Republican. Colin Powell was on Face The Nation today. Bob Schieffer lead the interview by asking him first about a recent volley of remarks that one might say started with Powell critizing conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh during Q&A at a cybersecurity conference, as reported by Chris Strohm of Congress [...]
I’m looking at a copy of the Senate Armed Services Committee report entitled “Inquiry Into the Treatment Of Detainees In U.S. Custody, November 20, 2008 (Released, April 22, 2009). I’ve read some passages near the end about Captain Donovan’s protests within the chain of command, it seems, against the justifications and just of certain tactics. [...]
Recently the Central Intelligence Agency made news with a high profile announcement about “black sites” and interrogation methods. CIA, as always, used very careful language: CIA no longer operates detention facilities or black sites and has proposed a plan to decommission the remaining sites… This seems to make it clear that there remain such sites, [...]