FEATURED ARTICLE
Condoning Torture?
By Abra Pollock
Recent media reports about secret government attempts to justify possible torture techniques have
thrown a spotlight on the nomination of the next U.S. attorney general. The revelations have also energized
rights advocates, who hope to eliminate torture from the repertoire of weapons used in the Bush administration's "war
on terror." Read full story.
SEE ALSO
Right Web Profile: John Yoo
A visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and author of the infamous "torture
memos," Yoo once purportedly argued that the legality of torturing a child, including by crushing
his testicles, depends on "why the president thinks he needs to do that."
FEATURED PROFILES
Sen. Jon Kyl
Kyl, a dependable Republican supporter of the Bush administration's "war on terror," is one
of the Senate's most vocal backers of aggressive action with Iran.
Fred Thompson
Thompson, the well-known actor and former AEI fellow, made his debut as a presidential candidate in
early October, highlighting in his first campaign debate his get-tough creds on the Iraq War in arguing
that the country must not "leave with our tail between our legs" in the face of Islamic
fascism in the Middle East.
Mark Gerson
The author of a 1996 hagiography of neoconservatism, Mark Gerson, CEO of the Gerson Lehrman Group
consulting firm, is a director of the largely defunct Project for the New American Century.
Family Security Matters
Targeting so-called security moms, the right-wing group Family Security Matters portrays its radical
ideas about the "war on terror" as merely a nonpartisan effort to provide Americans with
tools to defend themselves against terrorism.
ALSO NEW ON RIGHT WEB
Soft Partition or Hard Politics?
By Khody Akhavi
Would a senate proposal to decentralize Iraq along ethnic and religious lines create a stable federal
system, or lead to violent balkanization? Read full
story.
Misinterpreting the Militias
By Gareth Porter
Iran may be the "enemy" of the moment in U.S. discourse regarding the Iraq War, but it is
Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army that is proving to be the main source of difficulties. Read
full story.
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