By Marc Falkoff From Northwest Herald | Original Article Several months ago, I was invited to speak at McHenry County College about my experience representing Guantánamo detainees. The event was scheduled to…
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12-01-09 Documents reveal new information about destruction of torture tapes
By Alex Abdo From The Hill | Original Article Records obtained late last month by the American Civil Liberties Union reveal new information about the CIA’s destruction of videotapes depicting the brutal…
11-23-09 Alberto Gonzales Won’t Be Charged Over Eavesdropping Testimony
By Murray Waas From New York | Original Article Alberto Gonzales, pilloried for allegedly misleading Congress about the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping program, has been exonerated — sort of. According to public…
11-22-09 Closing Arguments: No clear benefit to holding 9/11 trial in New York
By John Yoo From Philly.com | Original Article Ownership of the disastrous decision to try al-Qaeda leaders in New York City federal court is the one clear thing to emerge so far…
11-19-09 The Fall of Greg Craig
By Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf From Time | Original Article Nearly 100 days after Barack Obama entered office, his top White House lawyer, Greg Craig, braced the President’s senior advisers…
11-19-09 Obama predicts execution in 9/11 case
By Kevin Johnson From USA Today | Original Article WASHINGTON — President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday defended the decision to prosecute the alleged 9/11 conspirators in a New…
11-18-09 Holder: ‘Failure not an option’
But Attorney General Eric Holder also told senators Wednesday that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could be detained indefinitely if acquitted in a New York terror trial. By Warren Richey From…
11-18-09 Video – CIA Secret ‘Torture’ Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this…
11-11-09 Bush torture ‘architect’ sits on court that will rule on another torture ‘architect’
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…
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…