Leaks go wiki
Got a detainee you’ve always wanted to pepper spray the Guantanamo Bay way, but you don’t know how close to hold the spray to his face? Good news! All 238 pages of the 2003 “Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta” (the prisoner camp at Gitmo) are now available online. (To get professional results, [...]

Six years after 9/11, America’s second-largest port is still open for terrorist business

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
I’m a big one for historical remembrances–1066 (William the Conqueror lands on the English coast), 1945 (the atom bomb dropped twice in a single month), and 1977 (premiere of Three’s Company, with the first episode “A Man About the House”–hilarious)–and, [...]

Name unfair to marsupials
Today’s LA Times has an interesting look at the special trials the U.S. is conducting for Global War on Terror (or whatever the name is this week) prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The system is so rigged that to call the proceedings “kangaroo courts” isn’t just a slur on the good name of [...]