Posted on November 26, 2007, 9:46 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under
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The Big Picture Home Page | Previous Big Picture Column | Next Big Picture Column Musharraf, Mukasey, and Checks and Balances Published in the Maryland Daily Record November 26, 2007 This month, the lawyers of Pakistan have been in the streets, and closer to home the Senate has agonized over the Michael Mukasey nomination for Attorney General. […]
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Posted on February 24, 2006, 12:06 am, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under
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It may have been lousy intelligence. It was effective public relations, however. In February 2003, 72 percent of Americans polled answered yes to the question: “Was Saddam Hussein personally involved in the September 11 attacks?” And this result was in line with poll after poll.
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Posted on August 26, 2005, 11:45 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under
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When the International Committee of the Red Cross reported in February 2004 on our various Iraqi detention centers, they noted that at all of them, there seemed to be a single playbook – the real playbook – of practices focusing on the sexual and religious humiliation of those detainees deemed “high value,” i.e. most likely to yield Actionable Intel.
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Posted on August 5, 2005, 11:36 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under
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But we had better be prepared for the consequences. Someone, somewhere, is going to try us, quite seriously, for war crimes. And somewhere else, someone is going to commit war crimes against our soldiers because we fail to recognize their own combatants as POWs. And it won’t be pretty.
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