torture is wrong

An article by George Hunsinger - originall published at CommonDreams.org

Can you believe it's finally happening?

Read the Actual Executive Order here! It's a .pdf file - so you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader. 

Marty Lederman joins the Obama Justice Department. Article by Faiz Shakir at Think Progress.

Judge Suspends Guantanamo Cases at Obama's Request.  Article by Peter Finn at the Washington Post 

Obama to sign order shutting Gitmo in a year.  Article from the Associated Press .

Here is Scott Horton's postfrom Harpers, referenced by Glenn Greenwald.

Manfred Nowak is the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Torture, appointed in 2004. He is one of the authors of the blistering UN report condemning Guantanamo and formerly a judge at The Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina which was mandated by the Dayton Peace Agreement (not the ICC).  Special Rapporteurs are appointed by the UN Secretary General and have a specific function - to investigate human rights abuses.

This seems to me to be a very big deal - the day after George Bush leaves office we have the UN Rapporteur for Torture saying that there is clear evidence that he has committed war crimes and the new US president MUST start a criminal investigation.