Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

Barack Obama’s choice for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta. This is change I can believe in.
Here is Panetta’s view on torture:

We cannot and we must not use torture under any circumstances. We are better than that.

With Eric Holder as Attorney General and Panetta at the [...]

[Via Andrew Sullivan] Our next Attorney General’s thinking on the rule of law:

Eric H. Holder Jr., Deputy Attorney General during the Clinton administration, asserted in a speech to the American Constitution Society (ACS) that the United States must reverse “the disastrous course” set by the Bush administration in the struggle against terrorism by closing the [...]

Last week I received an email from a dear friend. The email came from Sweden, on Valentine’s Day. I have spent the better part of this week trying to craft a response. I have failed. This post is my attempt at a response.
This blog is anti-torture. There is a logo on the sidebar of this blog that [...]

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[Cross posted at E-Bangladesh]
During last week’s mass protests in Bangladesh a demonstrator, possibly a student, lunged toward a Bangladesh army man with his feet raised in anger. The army man was running in fear to escape the fury all around him. A photographer from the Daily Star newspaper captured the moment [...]

[Cross posted at E-Bangladesh]

On August 26, the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Anwar Choudhury, apparently went off the reservation. After meeting with the foreign advisor in Dhaka Mr. Choudhury was the only foreign envoy to face the media. He apparently had a lot to say.
He described the protests and riots last week in Bangladesh as [...]

Human Rights Watch has protested the growing pattern of abuses by the military government in Bangladesh. In response to the nationwide protests, the military has cracked down on students, academics and journalists. One of the five professors who have been taken away by the military in the middle of the night is Dhaka University professor [...]

[Cross posted at E-Bangladesh]
[Reports on the latest situation on Bangladesh from Rezwan.]
After declaring a curfew on Wednesday, the Bangladesh military began to systematically target journalists for beating and intimidation.  
The Committee to Protect Journalists has protested the treatment of journalists by the Bangladesh military:

Committee to Protect Journalists is dismayed by reports of the assault, detention, and harassment [...]

In May I wrote about the abduction of Bangladeshi journalist, and fellow blogger, Tasneem Khalil by the Bangladeshi military. Tasneem was picked up in the middle of the night for daring to criticize the military that had taken control of Bangladesh in a coup in January of this year. After a worldwide campaign by bloggers, human rights [...]

On Monday President Bush is scheduled to meet Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). Mr. Hakim is to get the full treatment topped off with a White House meeting with Mr. Bush. On the heels of Mr. Bush’s ill-conceived summit meeting with beleaguered Iraqi Prime [...]

"Of one thing we may be sure. The future will never have to ask, with misgiving, what could the Nazis have said in their favor. History will know that whatever could be said, they were allowed to say. They have been given the kind of a Trial which they, in the days of their pomp [...]