Sentence examples for abusive detention from inspiring English sources

A court hearing this month in Manhattan turned on a subject that has mostly been missing in the legal response to former President George W. Bush's abusive detention policies: some measure of accountability.

Earlier this month, the American Bar Association condemned "the widespread pattern of abusive detention methods... [which] feed terrorism by painting the US as an arrogant nation above the law".

The mind-numbing bureaucratic details displayed in the documents released last week on the Bush Administration's abusive detention program sent wise commentators, such as The Atlantic's Hanna Rosin, to Hannah Arendt, the mother of all war-crime writers.

His announcement was a reminder of how the impact of a programme that was shut down in 2008 is still felt in Afghanistan – and how news of abusive detention still fuels anger.

When Riefenstahl began to glamorize the National Socialists, in the early 1930s, the Nazis' worst atrocities had not yet begun; yet abusive detention camps had already been opened to house political dissidents beyond the rule of law – the equivalent of today's Guantánamo, Bagram base, and other unnameable CIA "black sites".

By Jane Mayer September 2, 2009 The mind-numbing bureaucratic details displayed in the documents released last week on the Bush Administration's abusive detention program sent wise commentators, such as The Atlantic's Hanna Rosin, to Hannah Arendt, the mother of all war-crime writers.

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He was picked up at the border and has been detained at the allegedly abusive Adelanto detention facility in Adelanto, California, ever since.

It's also raised questions about whether the "extraordinary rendition" program conducted by the Bush administration has now been transformed into an equally abusive proxy detention program run by its successor.

The question has been whether the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence would be allowed to use pseudonyms as a means of identifying characters in the devastating report it released last week on the C.I.A.'s abusive interrogation and detention program.

For eight years, Congress failed in its legal duty to oversee the intelligence community and the basic operational tasks of the Department of Homeland Security and correct the abusive system of detention at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere that made our country more vulnerable, not less.