During the transition period, unknown to the public, Obama’s legal, intelligence, and national-security advisers visited Langley for two long sessions with current and former intelligence-community members. They debated whether a ban on brutal interrogation practices would hurt their ability to gather intelligence, and the advisers asked the intelligence veterans to prepare a cost-benefit analysis. The [...]

Großartiger Artikel über Hannah Arendt im New Yorker: „The more you realize that war criminals might be ordinary people, the more afraid you become,“ […] A dignified individual existence, she believes, requires distance from others, the „interspace“ that she described in the Hamburg speech. Compassion is dangerous, in her view, because „not unlike love,“ it [...]

Es gibt so Fälle, da helfen Zahlen die Welt zu erklären und ein bisschen erträglicher zu machen: A HUMAN RIGHTS STATISTICIAN FINDS TRUTH IN NUMBERS zeigt einen von ihnen auf.

die hier seit einer Woche die Runde im Team drehen, bei denen wir aber noch nicht wissen, was wir damit anstellen sollen: Passend zu unserem Film „Taxi to the Dark Side“ die neue Kampagne von Physicians for Human Rights: [youtube AgPb50s2EvA The CIA’s „enhanced“ interrogation techniques = TORTURE] Der Trailer zum neuen Buch von Naomi [...]