By Daniel Tencer From The Raw Story | Original Article John Yoo, the former Bush administration lawyer who gained notoriety for penning a number of the so-called “torture memos” justifying the use…
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11-10-09 Military Commissions Create “Second-Class” Justice System, Lawyers Charge
By William Fisher From Truthout | Original Article Critics of President Obama’s changes to the regulations governing military commissions are characterizing these changes as “cosmetic improvements,” amid a growing consensus among human…
10-29-09 President Signs Law Giving Defense Department Authority To Exempt Photos From Freedom Of Information Act
ACLU Renews Call For Secretary Gates Not To Block Release Of Torture Photos From ACLU.org |Original Article WASHINGTON – President Obama today signed into law a Homeland Securityappropriations bill that grants the…
10-22-09 Senate-Approved Changes To Guantánamo Military Commissions Don’t Fix Fatal Flaws
ACLU Press Release WASHINGTON – The Senate today passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes significant changes to the Guantánamo military commissions. The House approved the legislation earlier this month and…
10-15-09 Cheney Inc.: The new family business will promote American arrogance
By Maureen Dowd From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Original Article I imagine that if you called the new consulting firm of Cheney, Cheney & Cheney and got put on hold, you’d hear the…
10-15-09 Presidential Power Grows
Will You Love Every Future President?By David Swanson From TomDispatch.com | Original Article Presidential power has been on a pathway of expansion beyond what the Constitution outlined, and what a government of,…
10-8-09 Legal Case Filed Against 4 U.S. Presidents and 4 UK Prime Ministers
By The Brussels Tribunal From OpEdNews.com | Original Article Today the Spanish Senate, acting to confirm a decision already taken under pressure from powerful governments accused of grave crimes, will limit Spain’s…
10-2-09 Judge’s Ruling Means Public May Learn New Details About
By Jason Leopold From Truthout | Original Article A federal court judge ordered the Justice DepartmentThursday to release portions of an interview transcriptbetween former Vice President Dick Cheney and thespecial prosecutor assigned…
9-29-09 Berkeley agrees to UN rights treaties
By Carolyn Jones From SFGate | Original Article Berkeley became the first city in the United States,and possibly the world, to agree to international humanrights treaties on Tuesday night, after the CityCouncil…
9-28-09 Bush Torture Indictment
By David Swanson From AfterDowningStreet.org | Original Article Following a joint blogosphere drafting effort, here’s a revised draft indictment of Bush for torture. As before, this does not attempt to include…
9-15-09 My Flower to Bush, the Occupier: The Story of My Shoe
By Mutadhar al-Zaidi From Counterpunch | Original Article Mutadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi who threw his shoe at George Bush gave this speech on his recent release. In the name of God, the…
9-10-09 The Witness to Guantanamo Project: In-Depth Filmed Interviews of Former Guantanamo Detainees
By Peter Jan Honigsberg From The Huffington Post | Original Article “The first day I was at Guantanamo, they put me in a little cage. There was a toilet hole and I…
9-4-09 Ninth Circuit Court rules on John Ashcroft
By Kenneth J. Thiesen From FireJohnYoo.org | Original Article Bush Regime Attorney General can be held personally responsible for misuse of material witness law In an important development, a federal court has ruled…
8-31-09 Law & Disorder Audio Discussion on OIG CIA Report
Attorney General Eric Holder appointed special Justice Department prosecutor John Durham to conduct a preliminary investigation into whether federal laws were violated in connection with the interrogation of certain detainees in U.S….
8-28-09 Bush Tortured
By David Swanson From AfterDowningStreet.org | Original Article It seems almost trivial to accuse someone who launched an illegal war that has killed over a million people of torture. But if we…