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Unfortunately, nearly a year and a half later, the administration has not only continued some disreputable Bush-Cheney national-security policies, but has also added new ones. For us at the non-partisan American Civil Liberties Union, this is a continual reminder that no matter who is in office, civil...

Author: By Susan N. Herman | Title: Change We Can Believe In? | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Guantánamo itself may well be closed in the near future, but of course this will be an empty gesture if we just create a "Gitmo North" at the Thomson prison facility in Illinois or anywhere else—or if we continue to buy into the idea that...

Author: By Susan N. Herman | Title: Change We Can Believe In? | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Some people ask whether terrorists should have rights. But there is no way to tell who is a terrorist and who isn’t without some sort of fair process. Mohammed Jawad, for example, was shipped to Guantánamo at the age of about 16 and held for...

Author: By Susan N. Herman | Title: Change We Can Believe In? | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Despite an immense amount of public evidence about the involvement of Bush-era officials in torture—including thousands of pages of documents and photographs secured through ACLU Freedom of Information Act litigation—the Obama Administration has thus far failed to hold a single one of those...

Author: By Susan N. Herman | Title: Change We Can Believe In? | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Victims of extraordinary rendition—the practice of kidnapping and transporting people to countries where they were tortured in secret without even being charged with a crime—have initiated lawsuits challenging well-documented and horrific abuses. But Obama’s Justice Department is arguing the same...

Author: By Susan N. Herman | Title: Change We Can Believe In? | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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