Today’s Torture and America symposium featured:
Tomorrow, look for guest bloggers Jeralyn Merritt of Talkleft and Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel. Also contributing will be Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU’s National Security Project. Jameel, along with ACLU Staff Attorney Amrit Singh, literally “wrote the book” on torture. In Adminstration of Torture, Jameel and Amrit use hundreds of documents released through the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act request to show how the highest levels of the Bush administration and other top government officials authorized, approved, or turned a blind eye to the torture and harsh interrogation techniques that are being discussed in our torture symposium on the Blog of Rights, on the Hill, and at the DOJ.
Tomorrow, you’ll also find a dispatch from Jamil Dakwar, Director of the ACLU’s Human Rights Program, who’s in Guantánamo Bay right now for the military commissions pre-trial hearing of Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi and the arraignment of Afghan national Mohammed Kamin. You won’t find his full, first-person dispatch anywhere else but here, so keep an eye out for it.
May 21st, 2008 at 7:58 pm
You might want to take a look at Darren Etheir’s Organize Series plugin for series like this one. One of its most attractive features is the option to arrange the archive in chronological order, so that one can read the series in order. Rather than use Custom Fields, it establishes a third taxonomy in WordPress, separate from categories and tags. I’ve found it quite useful at my own blog.
Kudos on a great series so far.