Have America's Anti-Terror Policies Made Us Safer?
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1473 Jules Lobel, University of Pittsburgh law professor and Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, argues that the Bush Administration's detention and deportation of terror suspects has not made the U.S. safer from terrorism as a whole. ----- Jules Lobel discusses "Less... Read more
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- -: Have America's Anti-Terror Policies Made Us Safer?
September 11, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1473 Jules Lobel, University of Pittsburgh law professor and Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, argues that the Bush Administration's detention and deportation of terror suspects has not made the U.S. safer from terrori...
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- -: False Terrorism Accusations by the US Government
May 12, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/31/Agency_in_Surveilled_Space-Who_is_Watching Former Human Rights Watch Fellow Anjana Malhotra discusses two cases of individuals falsely accused of terrorist activities by the United States government. ----- A Roundtable Discussion of Agency in Survei...
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- -: Suicide Note from a Guantanamo Bay Detainee
August 13, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/10/Mahvish_Khan_My_Guantanamo_Diary Lawyer and journalist Mahvish Khan reads a suicide note from a terrorism suspect held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ----- Mahvish Khan discusses "My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Tol...
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- -: Bush's Legacy on Torture - Thomas Ricks
March 2, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/02/23/Thomas_Ricks_The_Gamble Washington Post journalist Thomas Ricks predicts that the Bush administration will be judged harshly by history, especially for their use of torture. "I think George Bush ultimately will go down as, by far and away, the worst p...
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- -: Become a Guantanamo Detainee in Second Life
May 18, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/04/Animating_Human_Rights_Games_Animation_and_Multimedia Peggy Weil offers images from a Guantanamo Bay simulation in the online role-playing game Second Life. "You find yourself transported and shackled into a cage; it's a powerful experience," she says...
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- -: Obama's Changing Stance on Torture - David Brooks and Gail Collins
May 20, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/23/Obamas_First_100_Days_with_David_Brooks_and_Gail_Collins NY Times columnists David Brooks and Gail Collins examine the fluctuating position of the Obama administration on torture. Brooks argues that the Obama administration hopes to "damp down" the to...
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- -: The Semantics of Torture - Geoffrey Nunberg
June 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/13/Talking_Dangerously_Geoffrey_Nunberg Geoffrey Nunberg, author and UC-Berkeley linguistics professor, examines the U.S. media's reservations with using the word "torture" to describe methods used to interrogate suspected terrorists in the wake of 9/11....
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- -: Does Torture Work? - Senator Carl Levin
June 20, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/27/Levin_Enters_the_Fray_Lashes_Out_at_Cheney U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) argues that information gathered through torture is unreliable and can lead to disastrous results. He says "treating detainees harshly is actually a roadblock to getting intelli...
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- -: Carl Levin: 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques' from Communist Regime
June 23, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/27/Levin_Enters_the_Fray_Lashes_Out_at_Cheney U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) traces the origins of interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. He argues the techniques "were based on abusive tactics...used by the Chinese communists" a...
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- -: Authorizing Torture: The Gestapo and Abu Ghraib
June 30, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/02/Torture_and_Democracy_What_Now Torture and Democracy author Darius Rejali says that top down authorization of enhanced interrogation techniques frequently lead to systematic abuse as guidelines trickle down the ranks. He compares integration abuses by...
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