The Defence of the Realm
by Christopher Andrew · 2 Aug 2010 · 1,744pp · 458,385 words
moved by US ‘extraordinary rendition’ operations to Morocco and Afghanistan before being interned in Guantánamo in 2004. While in Guantánamo, Mohamed told his British lawyer Clive Stafford Smith that British officials had interrogated him after his arrest in Pakistan and that ‘one of them did tell me that I was going to get
Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control
by Medea Benjamin · 8 Apr 2013 · 188pp · 54,942 words
, the death of these boys—unlike other drone victims never mentioned or mourned beyond the village—was reported in newspapers around the world. American lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, who had just met the boy in Islamabad, wrote a compelling New York Times Op-Ed.208 “My mistake had been to see the drone
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. “We’re going to sue the government in Britain because the British have admitted that they provide intelligence for the drone attacks,” said Reprieve director Clive Stafford Smith. “I think we have every chance to find violations of Geneva Conventions and humanitarian law. Whether we win in court or not, though, it’s
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Pakistani ambassador to Washington DC Sherry Rehman was required to say yea or nay to killing people in Texas every other day?” asked Reprieve lawyer Clive Stafford Smith. “She would be assassinated if she wasn’t prosecuted for the death penalty in Texas itself. What they are doing is making the State Department
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want to recognize Jean Aguerre for her steadfast and effective Not 1 More Acre Campaign. I received valuable input from many colleagues, including Pratap Chaterjee, Clive Stafford Smith, Jody Williams, Peter Ansaro, Noel Sharkey, Mark Gubrud, Fran Quigley, Tom Barry and Polly Miller, as well as interns Rosie Platzer and Viannka Lopez. Special
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1, 2010. 206 Pratap Chatterjee, “Bureau Reporter Meets 16-year-old Three Days Before US Drone Kills Him,” TBIJ, Nov 4, 2011. 207 Ibid. 208 Clive Stafford Smith, “In Pakistan, Drones Kill Our Innocent Allies,” The New York Times, November 4, 2011. 209 Nick Schifrin, “Tariq Khan Killed by CIA Drone,” ABC News
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
by Jon Ronson · 9 Mar 2015 · 229pp · 67,869 words
inviting me to appear at a salon of talks at her Marrakech palace / holiday home / hotel, the Riad El Fenn. ‘Other speakers,’ she emailed, ‘include Clive Stafford Smith - human rights lawyer. David Chipperfield - architect. Hans Ulrich Obrist - Serpentine curator. Redha Moali - rags-to-riches Algerian arts entrepreneur.’ I googled her Riad. It ‘combines
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the gait of a British man of privilege. He might have been a diplomat. After a few minutes he bounded over to me. ‘I’m Clive Stafford Smith,’ he said. I knew a little about him from his interview on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs - about how he was all set
With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
by Glenn Greenwald · 11 Nov 2011 · 283pp · 77,272 words
no longer pass on to Britain any information about terrorist plots aimed at British citizens. In April 2009, I interviewed the British international law expert Clive Stafford Smith, who was representing Mohamed in the British proceedings. In his view, the Obama administration’s extraordinary effort to force British courts to conceal evidence of
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The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
by Linsey McGoey · 14 Sep 2019
State Extremism (London: Verso, 2017). 26 Tamsin Shaw, 2016. ‘The psychologists take power’ (The New York Review of Books, February 25). 27 As US lawyer Clive Stafford Smith writes: ‘torture did not secure reliable information in 1600 (when witches “confesse”); it was no more helpful in 2001.’ See C.S. Smith, 2012. ‘Cruel
Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
by Bill Browder · 11 Apr 2022 · 335pp · 100,154 words
Rogers, Lord Jeffrey Rooker, Jago Russell, Mark Sabah, Jürgen Schurr, Bob Seely MP, Anisha Shakya, Jason Sharman, Laura Simmonds, Rupert Skilbeck, Iain Duncan Smith MP, Clive Stafford Smith, Joe Smouha QC, Mark Stephens, Dr. Charles Tannock MEP, Peter Tatchell, Sue Thackeray, Flavia Trevisani, Tom Tugendhat MP, Rebecca Vincent, Monique Villa, Patrick Walsh, Antony
The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
by John J. Mearsheimer · 24 Sep 2018 · 443pp · 125,510 words
detainees. 91. Jo Becker and Scott Shane, “Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will,” New York Times, May 29, 2012; Clive Stafford Smith, “Who’s Getting Killed Today?,” Times Literary Supplement, June 28, 2017. 92. Micah Zenko, “How Barack Obama Has Tried to Open Up the One-Sided