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fromEmptywheel
12 hours ago
US politics

Richard Ben-Veniste Calls out Obama for Spiking the Privacy Board

Former officials and civil-rights advocates clashed intensely over torture, accountability, civilian trials, drone strikes, and legal memos, revealing pronounced personal and ideological tensions.
US politics
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Opinion: Do U.S. military leaders have the backbone to disobey illegal orders?

Secret legal memos granting immunity for maritime strikes reveal governmental accountability avoidance and a decades-long moral erosion in U.S. wartime practices.
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