teases: on • reblogs: on

ShortFormBlog

Read a little. Learn a lot. • Ask Us Stuff!FAQArchiveTimeline

Tagged: detention

Our best freaking stuff right now:

February 5, 2013
20:16 • 4 months ago

54countries aided CIA renditions of U.S. detainees, according to a report from the Open Society Justice Initiative.

136people have been subjected to the renditions program, sent to third party countries for interrogation and/or torture and detention which would not be legal in the United States. source

December 9, 2011
15:23 • 1 year ago
squashed asks: As somebody who is always careful to do research before making accusations, I too am amazed at how little attention the National Defense Authorization Act has received. I fully understand that the act is not as bad as it could have been--though it still contains language that unambiguously permits indefinite detention without trial. It codifies and legalizes a lot of hazy detention policy without putting adequate limits on what the executive branch can do.

» SFB says: We’re with you in terms of it getting a lighter amount of coverage than it perhaps deserves. Don’t get us wrong. There is a big difference between no attention and not very much. We had intended on writing more about it later today or tomorrow (another reader had asked for a follow-up), but we admit that it just bugs us to say that the media is (or we are) completely ignoring something, when you can go as far as a Google News search and see that simply isn’t the case. It’s going to be interesting to see what Obama does with this — it runs directly counter to the very things he said he would do before he went into office. We certainly hope he doesn’t go for this. — Ernie @ SFB

 

ShortFormBlog is the product of Ernie Smith, Seth Millstein, Chris Tognotti, Sami Main, Scott Craft, Matthew Keys, Julius the laid-off RSS robot, awesome links from awesome sources, a hacked version of Wordpress, Tumblr's Tumblarity, the letter Q, the number 13 and a series of tubes.

Copyright 2009-2013 Ernie SmithAsk us stuff!E-mail usFollow us on TwitterFollow us on Facebook

    TwitterCounter for @shortformblog   Real Time Web Analytics   Creative Commons License Real Time Web Analytics