I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
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Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, who is now among those prosecuting detainees at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, was profiled in this month’s edition of Esquire magazine. Iglesias spoke about waterboarding (“I don’t know if you’ve ever seen waterboarding, but it’s torture.”) and his belief that military commissions are the best place to try those held at Guantánamo Bay.
There are no alternatives to the military commissions, so far as Iglesias is concerned, and that’s why he has faith that he will ultimately get to try his case — that it’s simply “implausible” that civilian prosecutors and civilian courts will be able to rise to the challenge not only of terrorism but of what we’ve done to the terrorists. Sure, it’s a negative faith: We’re going to keep the military commissions because we’re stuck with the military commissions. And it would sound like an admission of defeat if it didn’t also mean we are stuck with David Iglesias.
The writer is clearly impressed by Iglesias, and the piece says those who made the decision to fire Iglesias “didn’t realize that Iglesias’s truest belief was in himself — that he believed in his personal ethics as fervently as he believed in his personal Jesus.”
Overall, one of the better profiles of the former U.S. Attorney that I have seen.
