Tom Malinowski
Tom Malinowski
Tomasz P. Malinowski is a U.S. diplomat and the current Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor...
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apparently were worried that if they were to name Uzbekistan this year, after never naming them before, it would look like they did it just because they're mad about being kicked off the base.
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It's pathetic that they're still shuttling cash to this dictatorship after it has violated every commitment it made to the United States.
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It is illogical for companies to say they are expanding the boundaries of freedom in China if they strip their product of the very qualities that make it a force for greater freedom. These companies must protect the integrity of the product they are providing, or that product will no longer be the Internet as we know it, and will no longer have the impact on society we all wish to see.
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They've never before explicitly asserted that they need the authority to treat prisoners inhumanely. We can't think of any country in the world that has.
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There's a lot of public pressure to retain the language intact. At the same time, there's pressure from the vice president's office to modify it.
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It's not like these people were once considered to be a threat and now are not. These people need to be released, either in another country or the U.S. They're America's responsibility.
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It is another positive sign that the administration is willing to be honest and straightforward about the shortcomings of its allies in the Arab world, including Saudi Arabia.
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This exception contains code language that could give the CIA a green light to treat prisoners inhumanely. If allowed to stand, it will render President Bush 's past pledges about humane treatment meaningless.
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There's not just confusion between the U.S. definition and everybody else's definition of torture, there's profound confusion within the U.S. government.
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The administration demanded that soldiers extract information from detainees without telling them what was allowed and what was forbidden. Yet when abuses inevitably followed, the leadership blamed the soldiers in the field instead of taking responsibility.
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This was somebody who worked very hard to make sure the advice of senior military officials and national security professionals on the question of interrogation policies was ignored. The result was an unmitigated disaster for the United States.
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We've seen a series of half-hearted investigations and slaps on the wrist. The government seems more interested in managing the detainee abuse scandal than in addressing the underlying problems that caused it.