Violence Spills Across U.S.-Mexico Border
The increasing violence that the drug cartels have been inflicting on Mexico is now making its way across the Rio Grande into the...
Crime
Justice Department’s Torture Inquiry
Attorney General Eric Holder’s office has nearly completed a report that excoriates the three senior Bush administration officials who gave a pseudo-legal imprimatur...
Read more“Torture Memo” Author Attacks Torture Ban
Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo castigated President Obama’s decision to ban torture and close Guantanamo in a January 29 Wall Street Journal...
Read morePhony Guantanamo Recidivism Numbers?
The Department of Defense claimed in a dramatic press briefing on January 13 that “61 in all former Guantanamo detainees are confirmed or...
Read moreObama’s Orders to Close Gitmo, Ban Torture, Review Detention
President Barack Obama signed three executive orders on the first full day of his presidency, January 21, to (1) ban the use of...
Read moreGun Controllers Target Ammunition
The new and heavily liberal legislative bodies now ensconced in Washington and in many statehouses across the nation now pose a slow equivalent...
Read moreFormer Border Patrol Agents to be Released
During his last full day in office, President George W. Bush has commuted the sentences of former Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and...
Read moreBlair Holt, Other Gun-control Efforts, on Horizon
No sane person wants innocent people victimized, maimed, or murdered, nor to see the perpetrators escape justice. This is true, whether the perpetrators...
Read moreU.S. Soldier Exposes Torture at Guantanamo
Marine Sgt. Heather Cerveny has exposed torture at Guantanamo, despite high-level pressure to suppress the information. Though the military initially dismissed her allegations,...
Read moreSenate Report Fails to Call Guantanamo Abuse Torture
The bipartisan report on detainee torture at Guantanamo (pdf) released by the Senate Armed Services Committee on December 11 did a good job...
Read moreImprisoned for Seven Years Without Being Charged
Consider this incredible sequence of events. A young American citizen was invited to study in a Middle Eastern country. Having arrived there, the...
Read moreReport Confirms Torture at Guantanamo
Last month, a consortium of human-rights groups from the University of California at Berkeley released a report entitled Guantanamo and Its Aftermath: U.S....
Read moreGuantanamo: Will Justice Again Be Delayed?
Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon issued a release order on November 20 for five Algerian prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay prison....
Read moreTerrorist Bill Ayers Misrepresents His Past
Bill Ayers now calls Barack Obama a "neighbor and family friend." He also says the Weather Underground never killed or hurt anyone. This...
Read moreFBI Agent John Connally Convicted for Aiding Mafia
On November 6, a Florida jury convicted former FBI Agent John J. Connally, Jr. of initiating the 1982 slaying of a business executive...
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