1. The North Carolinian 'Jihadist'
(Opinions/Politic)

...s an enemy combatant rather than as a criminal defendant, which the feds have had the option of doing under U.S. law since 9/11, they could have sent battle-tested U.S. troops from Ft. Bragg into Rale...

2. The Continued Fleecing Of America
(Opinions/Politic)

...s and hidden costs,” Salon.com; () “Who tried to bribe Rep. Smith?” Timothy Noah, Slate Magazine. FINANCE: U.S. Lawmakers Invested in Iraq, Afghanistan Wars, IPS. The True Evil Doers. ”Obama talks t...

3. The Back Door Way to Ignore the Bill of Rights
(Opinions/Politic)

...at the drug lords begin wreaking violence on the U.S. side of the border, including killing sprees in which U.S. law-enforcement agents, judges, and other public officials are the predominate victims,...

4. Celebrate Torture Day by Punishing Torturers
(Opinions/Society)

...t it is time to expunge this relic of bygone fastidiousness.   It is up to Obama to show that he takes U.S. law more seriously than Stalin took the 1936 Soviet constitution. If Obama denounces to...

5. Obama’s Guantánamo Appeasement Plan
(Editor/Editorial)

...s category should be tried in the courts of the United States, because the laws of war are actually part of U.S. law.  The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution says that treaties shall be the sup...

6. Torture Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11
(Opinions/Daily)

...violates the President's constitutional duty to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." U.S. law prohibits torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and requires that thos...

7. Obama's Duty to Prosecute Torturers
(Opinions/Features)

...cruel treatment before our “own courts.” The Torture Convention and the Geneva Conventions are both part of U.S. law under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which says, “all Treaties made, or ...

8. The Cancerous Rot at the Center of the Empire
(Opinions/Politic)

...ld? There are, of course, solid and important reasons why it would be wrong, both legally and morally, for U.S. law-enforcement officers to torture criminal suspects in their custody. For one thi...

9. Tortured Posturing on Harsh Interrogation Techniques
(Opinions/Politic)

...hich prohibit “cruel, inhumane or degrading” treatment. Furthermore, waterboarding is clearly illegal under U.S. law, and Japanese interrogators were prosecuted during post-World War II war crimes tri...

10. The Worsening U.S. Failure
(Opinions/Bulletin)

...ko... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/19/AR2009031900804.html). [7] FINANCE: U.S. Lawmakers Invested in Iraq, Afghanistan Wars (ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41893), &quot...