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Evening Observer
March 1, 2018
... associate professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of “Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen”; Brian Castner, Iraq War veteran and bestselling author of “All the Ways We Kill and Die”; and Ian Fishback, Iraq and AfghanistanÃâà...
Evening Observer
February 8, 2018
A panel discussion, with Christopher Capozzola and Brian Castner, authors of books that examine the U.S. military, and Ian Fishback, whose actions led to reforming U.S. standards for detainee treatment, will conclude the centennial observance on Thursday at noon in the Garden area of Reed Library.
Philosophy Now
January 20, 2017
During his time as a serving US Army officer, Ian Fishback took a public stand against the use of torture during interrogations. Writing for this issue he argues that while justifications for torture can be put forward relating to farfetched hypothetical situations, in practice the arguments against torture are unassailable.
Philosophy Now
January 20, 2017
Ian Fishback is a former U.S. Army officer with four combat tours. He took a stand against torture, eventually writing a public letter in 2005 to Senator John McCain explaining his concerns about abuse of detainees. From 2012-15 he was an Instructor at West Point. He is now a PhD student in Philosophy at the University ofÃâà...
Military Times
November 19, 2015
A US soldier of Alpha Troops 5-1 cavalry secures the area around a polling station where Iraqi police officers are casting their vote in the town of Balad Ruz, some 50 kms east of Baghdad, on January 28, 2009. About 614,000 Iraqi police, soldiers, prisoners and hospital patients voted in the first stage of theÃâà...
Mic
December 17, 2014
Given the public reaction to many of the details in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's torture report, it should come as no surprise that there were officials in the CIA and elsewhere whp were just as horrified by the interrogation methods. Some even tried to do something about the abuses.
New York Times
December 9, 2014
... former general counsel of the Navy, who fought against the vicious new protocols; Philip Zelikow, an adviser to Condoleezza Rice who wrote an “anti-torture memo” that the White House attempted to destroy; and Ian Fishback, an infantry captain who reported widespread prisoner abuses by his own unit.
News from Rutgers
June 27, 2013
“There are still many open questions about war,” said West Point's Major Ian Fishback, who developed the three-week pilot program, “Normative Dimensions of War,” with Rutgers philosophy professor Jeff McMahan. “To the degree we can reach better answers to those questions, we will be able to be moreÃâà...
Esquire
May 11, 2009
With a partner named John Sifton, in the past year he has helped expose the secrets of CIA prisons and extraordinary renditions and discovered Captain Ian Fishback, the decorated West Point graduate whose account to the Senate Armed Services Committee last fall pushed the Congress to pass aÃâà...
New York Times
September 25, 2005
The new allegations, the first involving members of the elite 82nd Airborne, are contained in a report by Human Rights Watch. The 30-page report does not identify the troops, but one is Capt. Ian Fishback, who has presented some of his allegations in letters this month to top aides of two senior RepublicansÃâà...
