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Georgetown Lawyers to Urge New Geneva Convention for Terrorism

By Jeff Stein | June 3, 2009 11:13 PM | | Comments (2)

U.S. and European officials have been at war over the wording of the Geneva Convention ever since American forces invaded Afghanistan in late 2001 and began rounding up terrorist suspects and Taliban fighters.

Maybe it's time for a new Geneva Convention for the age of terrorism.

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The Mysterious Case of CIA Interrogator Mark Swanner

By Jeff Stein | April 8, 2009 11:09 PM | | Comments (0)

There are 14 names in the confidential Red Cross report that surfaced last week on the CIA's "ill treatment" of detainees.

But you will not find in it the name of Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi who was picked up by U.S. Navy SEALS in Baghdad and interrogated by the CIA.

That's because Jamadi died in the care of Mark Swanner, a 44-year-old CIA interrogator who battered the prisoner at the ghastly Abu Ghraib in 2003. 

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