Tag Archives: Abu Ghraib

U.S. Detainee Policies Under Growing Fire

Posted on November 3, 2005 by Team VCS

The secret prison system set up by the United States to hold suspects in the war on terror was under critical new scrutiny on every side Wednesday. And the controversy appeared linked to widespread and growing speculation that U.S. Vice … Continue reading →

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CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons

Posted on November 2, 2005 by Team VCS

CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons – Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/11 By Dana PriestWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, November 2, 2005; A01 The CIA has been hiding and … Continue reading →

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Why the Military Shouldn’t Take Charge in Emergencies

Posted on October 25, 2005 by Team VCS

A majority of Americans in a recent poll expressed support for the use of our military as part of law enforcement during domestic emergencies. President Bush evidently shares this view, for he proposed using the military to enforce the law … Continue reading →

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VCS Weekly Update: Privacy, Torture and DIA Spying on Americans

Posted on October 24, 2005 by Team VCS

October 24, 2005 Dear VCS Members and Supporters: Veterans for Common Sense last week joined a coalition of privacy-focused organizations in opposition to a $349 million Pentagon database of 12 million Americans of recruitable-age. Much of the data in the … Continue reading →

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Afghanistan: Abuse Charges at Bad Time for White House

Posted on October 21, 2005 by Team VCS

Allegations that U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan burned the bodies of Taliban fighters couldn’t have come at a worse time for the Bush administration, already fighting legislation in Congress that would impose standards on the Pentagon’s treatment of detainees. Lurid television … Continue reading →

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Why Torture is OK

Posted on October 21, 2005 by Team VCS

Imagine that you are on your way to work, coffee in hand, one December morning when three men in United States military uniforms, armed with guns, approach you. They say your name; you acknowledge it. One of them slams you … Continue reading →

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Close our torture loophole

Posted on October 18, 2005 by Team VCS

Picture this scene: Young prison guards in khaki uniforms and reflecting sunglasses herd a larger group of inmates down a hallway, each prisoner chained to the next by his ankle, each dressed in a shapeless smock that exposed his pale … Continue reading →

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Night And Fog Revisited

Posted on October 15, 2005 by Team VCS

Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel, supreme chief of the German armed forces, explained the thinking behind the Nazis’ “Night and Fog” (the term comes from Goethe) decree: “Efficient and enduring intimidation can only be achieved…by measures by which the relatives of … Continue reading →

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When Torture becomes Policy

Posted on October 12, 2005 by Team VCS

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government.” Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 President Bush has made it clear … Continue reading →

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GOP Stands Up For U.S. Right to Torture

Posted on October 12, 2005 by Team VCS

GOP Stands Up for U.S. Right to Torture Austin, Texas — On one of those television gong shows that passes for journalism, the panelists used to have to pick an Outrage of the Week. Then, each performer would wax indignant about … Continue reading →

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