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  1. 9 hours ago

    It's Congress' constitutional duty to decide when and where the United States goes to war. Yet the Trump Administration is trying to bypass Congress while escalating tensions with Iran.

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  2. Jun 12

    HRF's and break down Chairman Smith's mark of the FY20 NDAA, touching on issues like "the militarization of the southern border... and reemphasizing the nation’s commitment to protecting human rights."

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  3. Jun 12

    Ahead of today's NDAA markup in the House Armed Services Committee, read this explainer on what's in the bill from , , and John Nelson via .

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  4. Retweeted
    Jun 10

    NEW: Senate Intel Committee's torture report says the 2 architects of CIA's torture program rec'd $80M for their work. CIA pushed back when reporters asked about it. So I 'd the contracts. CIA GLOMAR'd. I appealed. 5 yrs later they gave me the contracts. This is just 2005-10

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  5. Retweeted
    Jun 10

    "al-Alwi faces the real prospect that he will spend the rest of his life in detention based on his status as an enemy combatant a generation ago, even though today’s conflict may differ substantially from the one Congress anticipated when it passed the .”

    From Breyer's dissent from today's cert denial in Al-Alwi v. Trump:
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  6. Jun 3

    This ad gamifies waterboarding into an endurance competition. In reality, is used to "denigrate, subjugate, and dehumanize individuals," as explained by and 24 other intelligence and national security professionals.

    Replying to @glynco @IntlSpyMuseum and 6 others
    The display itself reflected exceptionally poor judgment by by promoting the false narrative that the utility and morality of torture are open to debate. This tasteless ad only compounds the error and adds further insult to the intelligence profession.
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  7. Jun 3

    Interrogation and intelligence professionals like understand torture is "illegal, ineffective, counterproductive, and immoral"- not advertisement material. See this statement from 25 national security professionals:

    The fact the ⁦⁩ would seek to profit from human suffering, with sidewalk ads about water is shameful and irresponsible. ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ matter
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  8. Retweeted
    Jun 3
    Replying to and

    Suggesting to kids that torture is an open question about which they can make up their minds is part of the problem. The laws banning torture are settled law. The should be about actual history (and displaying cool stuff), not selling the CIA revisionist version.

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  9. Retweeted
    Jun 2
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    The display itself reflected exceptionally poor judgment by by promoting the false narrative that the utility and morality of torture are open to debate. This tasteless ad only compounds the error and adds further insult to the intelligence profession.

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  10. Jun 3

    Congress could allow emergency medical transfers of detainees to the U.S. notes that a "detainee’s life could be at risk if the authority isn’t granted.”

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    Jun 1

    ⁦⁩, ⁦⁦⁩, said the health care transfer provision would be consistent with DOD’s “obligations under the Geneva Conventions to provide adequate medical care” to its war prisoners. via ⁦⁩,

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  12. May 29

    Read the latest on the Periodic Review Board from . Last week's hearings, which were " further proof that the PRB process is broken."

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  13. May 24

    Rear Adm Guter, Rear Adm Hutchinson, and Lt Col VanLandingham explain that the President " jeopardizes the American way of war—of honorable combat—by continuing to pardon those military members already convicted of fighting outside the nation’s laws,"

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  14. May 24

    Retired military leaders write that "our nation’s Commander-in-Chief threatens our military’s continued adherence to [the] law if he preemptively pardons military members who are currently being prosecuted" for committing war crimes.

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  15. May 22

    .'s repeal "presents an opportunity for Congress to reassert its constitutional duty and reassess the extent to which such force is necessary” explains. Read our press release on yesterday's vote here:

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    May 21

    Frmr Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Charles C Krulak on President Trump's war crimes pardons: These pardons would "relinquish the United States’ moral high ground and undermine the good order and discipline critical to winning on the battlefield."

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  17. May 22

    As explained by via , 's amendment to repeal the 2001 offers Congress "the opportunity to wrest greater control over its authorization of war under this and future presidents."

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  18. May 21

    We applaud today's vote in the House Appropriations Committee to repeal the 2001 as "an important first step toward Congress reclaiming its war-making authority."

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  19. Retweeted
    May 12

    - Here are some sworn deposition videos from and that provide a more accurate description of the origins and utter lack of experience of those involved in the program.

    Seriously ⁦⁩...a video of Jose Rodriguez extolling the benefits of systematic state sponsored , while purporting you don’t take sides! ⁦⁩ is absolutely right but you are on the wrong side of history & decency.
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    May 12

    Seriously ⁦⁩...a video of Jose Rodriguez extolling the benefits of systematic state sponsored , while purporting you don’t take sides! ⁦⁩ is absolutely right but you are on the wrong side of history & decency.

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