Torture

May 19, 2023 | |

Iran Executes Three Protesters Despite International Outcry

Latest Developments Iran’s regime executed three innocent men on May 19 whom security forces arrested last year during anti-government protests. In a brief trial devoid of due process, Tehran falsely...

April 20, 2016 | Clifford D. May

A spy’s story

After a long and extraordinary career, Gen. Michael Hayden has written “Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.” Both a memoir and a primer on modern espionag...

February 29, 2012 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

War Crimes and Punishment

“To the justice of the firing squad!” That was the toast proposed by Stalin to Roosevelt and Churchill over dinner in 1943 in Tehran. They were meeting for the first time and...

January 12, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Stories Ex-Gitmo Detainees Tell

Ten years ago this week, the U.S. government opened the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detention facility. And three years ago this month, shortly after his inauguration, President Barack Obama ordered Gua...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online

The CIA Interrogation Tapes

Remember when this was a real war?

May 16, 2011 | Clifford D. May

Wet Work

 Osama bin Laden sleeps with the fishes. His deputy, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad sleeps between clean sheets, eats three square meals a day and receives the same quality medical care as U.S. mili...

May 16, 2011 |

A Different Kind of Justice

‘Justice has been done.” That was President Obama’s succinct assessment of the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. special-ops forces, carried out at his direction on Sunday. &ld...

April 25, 2011 |

A False Martyr

Late last year, Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr agreed to a plea deal that will require him to serve a maximum of eight years, with just one of those years in Cuba. Khadr is then set to be returne...

January 19, 2011 | Thomas Joscelyn Weekly Standard

The Beginning of the End of Swiss ‘Active Neutrality’?

 Tuesday morning, NBC News broadcast an interview with Saad Iqbal Madni, a former Guantanamo detainee. Madni’s story is an old one and there is no real “news” here. The New...

July 20, 2010 | Thomas Joscelyn Weekly Standard

Disconnecting the Dots, Part 2

Late last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block the transfer of a Guantanamo detainee named Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed to his home country of Algeria. Mohammed claims that he will be tort...

February 25, 2010 |

Congressional Democrats Take Aim at Interrogators

Co-Authored with Stephen F. Hayes Update: A press release from Pete Hoekstra's office indicates that the House bill has been pulled because of opposition to the pr...

January 1, 2007 | Andrew McCarthy The New Criterion

Is The Nation State Threatened?

 “Is the Nation State Threatened?” This question, though apt, may fail to convey how dire the threat to sovereignty truly is. It might be better to ask, “Is the Nation Stat...

November 27, 2005 |

The “Moral Authority” Canard

Senator McCain is heroic, awe-inspiring, and wrong.