...looks like someone I saw on some rope-line sometime...

Posted at May 17, 2008 6:33 AM in response to McClatchy: U.S. Ditched Chalabi to Satisfy Maliki

"There is serious question as to what legal authority the U.S. civilian legal system, the military justice system, or Iraqi law has over civilian contractors. And there's a case to be made that there is no law that applies to civilian contractors."

Mercenaries are one of the few well-defined cases of
"unlawful combatant" and are by definition against
the Geneva Convention. Send Blackwater to the Hague.

Posted at May 17, 2008 6:31 AM in response to Feds Probing Drunken Blackwater Shooting

I guess I'd like to hear one of these torture-fans explain how waterboarding helps an interrogation that does not lapse into them defining it in a way that is just as legal as torture. "Well, he starts to talk because he thinks hes going to die", or, "once he knows that the only way to make it stop is to talk, he talks. What do you mean why does he want it to stop?"

Posted at February 15, 2008 2:19 PM in response to The Calculus of Torture