Here are all the guests that have been featured in our Ask Anything interview series. They first appear alphabetically below, then reverse chronologically after that. Andrew’s Ask Anything answers are here. Guests: [one_half]Spencer Ackerman Reza Aslan Josh Barro Bruce Bartlett Shane Bauer Peter Beinart Jesse Bering Kate Bolick Mark Bowden Steven Brill Tina Brown Charles … Continue reading Ask Anything Archive
Eli Lake checks in on Gitmo and the president’s pledge to close it: “It’s incredibly difficult, and each year it gets more difficult,” one senior administration official working on transfer policy told the Daily Beast. This official said the biggest issue was having to certify that a detainee will not reengage in terrorism, but this official also … Continue reading Obama’s Promise That Congress Broke
Scott Horton is a contributing editor of Harper’s who blogs about civil liberties at No Comment. If you haven’t yet read his award-winning piece “The Guantánamo ‘Suicides‘”, you should definitely do so. Here is my long take on the report. Previous Horton videos here, here, here and here. “Ask Anything” archive here.
Scott Horton is a contributing editor of Harper’s who blogs about civil liberties at No Comment. If you haven’t yet read his award-winning piece “The Guantánamo ‘Suicides‘”, you should definitely do so. Here is my long take on the report. Previous Horton videos here, here and here. “Ask Anything” archive here.
Scott Horton is a contributing editor of Harper’s who blogs about civil liberties at No Comment. If you haven’t yet read his award-winning piece “The Guantánamo ‘Suicides‘”, you should definitely do so. Here is my long take on the report. Previous Horton videos here and here; “Ask Anything” archive here.
Scott Horton is a contributing editor of Harper’s who blogs about civil liberties at No Comment. If you haven’t yet read his award-winning piece “The Guantánamo ‘Suicides‘”, you should definitely do so. Here is my long take on the report. Previous Horton video here; “Ask Anything” archive here.
As Horton recently wrote: One of the lasting challenges to America’s federal judiciary will be addressing American complicity in the tortures and disappearances of the past ten years. Two recent appeals-court decisions show us how judicial panels are tackling these issues: by shielding federal officials and their contractors from liability, and even by glorifying the … Continue reading Ask Scott Horton Anything: Will Bush Officials Ever Be Tried For Torture?
[Re-posted from yesterday with added questions from readers. Please vote on them if you have 30 seconds to spare.]
Scott Horton is a contributing editor of Harper's who blogs about civil liberties at No Comment. If you haven't yet read his award-winning piece "The Guantánamo 'Suicides'", you should definitely do so. Here is my long take on the report. I also wrote about it in my Sunday Times column (pay-walled):
The Charleston Post and Courier follows up on this theory about the three Gitmo "suicides."
One small detail of the torture of terror suspect Ali al-Marri in US custody contains a nugget that might cast light on the still bizarre circumstances of the three Gitmo "suicides", revealed by the National Magazine Award winning report by Scott Horton. For in that detail, we learn of a new torture technique devised at … Continue reading “Dryboarding”
