Firedoglake's March Wheeler is one of the bloggers who does work connecting the dots that the rest of the media only sometimes catches up to. (She's also scary smart.)
Now the good folks at Firedoglake are running a campaign to raise $150K “to support Marcy, another investigative blogger to work with her, and a researcher to help them.”
A good cause: Go Organic — No Artificial Blogging. Support Marcy Wheeler!
From Daily Kos: What We Know So Far: A Torture Timeline (Updated).
Useful.
Torture being muchly in the news, I offer this quote from Robert Cover, Violence and the Word, 95 Yale L.J. 1601, 1603 (1986):
The deliberate infliction of pain in order to destroy the victim's normative world and capacity to create shared realities we call torture. The interrogation that is part of torture, Scarry points out, is rarely designed to elicit information. More commonly, the torturer's interrogation is designed to demonstrate the end of the normative world of the victim-the end of what the victim values, the end of the bonds that constitute the community in which the values are grounded. Scarry thus concludes that “in compelling confession, the torturers compel the prisoner to record and objectify the fact that intense pain is world-destroying.”· That is why torturers almost always require betrayal-a demonstration that the victim's intangible normative world has been crushed by the material reality of pain and its extension, fear. IS The torturer and victim do end up creating their own terrible “world,” but this world derives its meaning from being imposed upon the ashes of another.6 The logic of that world is complete domination, though the objective may never be realized.
The citations are to ELAINE SCARRY, THE BODY IN PAIN (1985).
I hadn't realized that one of the members of the Pulitzer-prize winning team from the Detroit Free Press is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Law.
David Zeman, 50, is the paper’s assistant managing editor for investigations, having previously worked as an investigative and legal reporter at the paper. He is a 1981 graduate of the University of North Carolina and a 1984 graduate of the University of Miami Law School. He received a master’s degree in 1987 from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Zeman previously worked at the Miami Herald and the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.
The team, which included two reporters, won for uncovering the Kwame Kilpatrick scandal.
Opinio Juris Want to Prosecute the Lawyers? Cite Ministries — Not the Justice Case.
Not an area of law that I have studied, but Heller is an expert.
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