German prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for an 88-year-old U.S. resident, on suspicion he helped in the murders of at least 29,000 Jews as a Nazi death camp guard, they said Wednesday....

Mohamed Farag Bashmilah tells his story at the Huffington Post. He was never told why he was picked up and detained for almost three years: During my detention, I agonized constantly about my family back in Yemen, knowing they had no idea where I was. They never once received information about who h...

See Andrew Sullivan. A nugget: The point of this can therefore never be to get truly reliable information. The purpose is to get answers the victim imagines the torturers want to hear. This might be the truth; or it might be a desperate untruth. The point is that the tortured is brought to the point...

France’s top judicial body, the Council of State, on Monday formally recognized the nation’s role in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps....

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In yesterday’s local rag: Keeping Saigon safe required human intelligence, most often from captured prisoners. I had a running debate about how North Vietnamese prisoners should be treated with the South Vietnamese colonel who conducted interrogations. This colonel routinely tortured prisoners...

German investigators said that they had information corroborating reports that Aribert Heim, the concentration camp doctor, had died in Egypt in 1992....

During the debate over ratification of the Constitution, the Federalist Papers assured Americans that the military would never be used against the American people. Besides a fear of the power that could accrue to the executive with this type of authority, Publius and company were concerned abou t th...

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This one is for my good mate Gerry McCusker (who’s also interested to hear more about your favourite PR disasters of 2008, by the way!) According to The Local, Petrol station chain Esso and coffee company Tchibo have stopped an advertising campaign after finding out the slogan also hung above the ...