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GONZALES UK Interview Torture: Provisions of Geneva Convention quaint & obsolete!

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:19:37 +0000

February 4, 2009
Jeremy Paxman interview with Alberto Gonzales
Alberto Gonzales, who was President Bush’s White House lawyer and who told the president that parts of the Geneva Convention were quaint and obsolete. No doubt he’ll be asked whether he accepts responsibility for water-boarding and detainees being paraded naked on dog leads etc, all the horrors of what were quaintly termed “enhanced interrogation techniques”.

Duration : 0:6:56

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GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham explains the Geneva Conventions

admin — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:30:22 +0000

Sen. Graham (R-SC) delivers a thoughtful and principled defense of the Geneva Conventions.

Duration : 0:7:20

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Prof. Jonathan Turley on Gutting of the Geneva Conventions

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:20:39 +0000

George Washington University Professor Jonathan Turley discusses the legal implications of President Bush’s proposed changes to Article III of the Geneva Conventions on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

Duration : 0:4:55

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General Petraeus – US violated Geneva Conventions

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:17:02 +0000

The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, said Friday that the US had violated the Geneva Conventions in a stunning admission from President Bushs onetime top general in Iraq that the US may have violated international law.

Original Post on Liveleak by: SpacePatrolDelta

Duration : 0:4:46

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George Bush vs Geneva Convention

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:36:29 +0000

Torture or not – you decide

Duration : 0:4:41

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Guantanamo Bay and the Geneva Convention.

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:51:06 +0000

http://www.mslaw.edu

Does the Geneva Convention apply to the prisoners at Guantanomo Bay? Dean Lawrence R Velvel interviews Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Charlie Savage about his new book, Take Over — The Return of the Imperial Presidency in This inversion of American Democracy, on this episode of The Massachusetts School of Laws Books of our Times.

The full interview is available at http://tinyurl.com/265obf . The Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public in television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit mslawledu.

Duration : 0:2:23

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