Sylvia Longmire is a retired Air Force Captain and former Special Agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

She has worked as an intelligence analyst for the state’s Emergency Management Agency, focusing on drug trafficking and border violence.

Just as Norm Coleman and other relatively progressive — or at least pragmatic — Republicans try to reassure Latino voters that the GOP isn’t stuffed stem-to-stern with lily-white bigots cowering in fear of skins browner than theirs, Michele Bachmann has to go harsh their mellow by visiting Joe Arpaio for the second time this year.

The War on Drugs will apparently never end…makes sense it would be just like Afghanistan I guess.

Amelec is an undocumented LGBTQ activist in Arizona, where local and federal government work hand in hand to target immigrants in the most severe anti-immigrant climate in the country. Last week, Amelec, who has lived in the U.S. since age 2, met with Lady Gaga before her Phoenix concert and told her about how his brother was recently deported even though he would have been eligible for legal status under the DREAM Act now pending in Congress. This is an interview with Amelec.

The money that now goes to the cartels, with which they buy weapons and fund criminal enterprises of all sorts, could instead be paying teacher salaries and going into the coffers of states that badly need the revenue to meet their budgets.

Jonathan Landay is a good reporter and McClatchy is a reputable news organization (there are still a few), but this is a ridiculous story: As the Obama administration reconsiders its Afghanistan policy, White House officials are minimizing warnings from the intelligence community, the military and the State Department about the risks of adopting a limited [...]

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Professor Shane O’Mara at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience in Dublin has written an article which has caught the attention of the mainstream media. Pamela Hess at Associated Press described Prof. O’Mara’s article, Torturing the Brain: On the folk psychology and folk neurobiology motivating ‘enhanced and coercive interrogation techniques’ (PDF), as showing that “the severe interrogation techniques appear based on ‘folk psychology’ — a layman’s idea of how the brain

Maxwell-Gunther Dispatch.com, the web news site for personnel and interested partisans of Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, reported on September 17 that Col. (Dr.) James W. Walter has been awarded the Air Medal “for his meritorious service on delicate assignments providing medical care to enemy detainees.”

From January 2007 to 2009 as the senior detainee movement flight surgeon, he provided 106 combat hours of support to the 14 Joint Task

An important new filing by military JAG defense counsel in the Military Commission proceeding USA v. KSM, et al. challenges the validity of the 2006 MCA, which has been passed in revised form by the Senate as part of its FY 2010 Defense Authorization Act.