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By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — An American Muslim subjected to several years of intense FBI scrutiny and questioning about links to terrorism has been held without charges, access to a lawyer or contact with his family for nearly three months by the security services of the United Arab Emirates.
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Brad Friedman
As I haven’t had much (if any) time to focus on it since last Tuesday’s election, I just wanted to toss in for now, here on Veterans Day, that I find it hard to believe that many of those vets, to whom we ought a great debt, would have risked their lives to fight [...]
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Nick Juliano
Published: Friday November 7, 2008
The Bush administration is doing everything it can to delay compliance with a court’s order that the Pentagon turn over pictures of prisoners abused in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new court filing.
A three-judge appeals court panel in September ordered the administration to turn over 87 photographs depicting abuses [...]
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Published on 23-10-2008
RawStory
This past summer, Craig Johnson joined dozens of other activists in a San Diego-area park to protest the expansion of a fence along the US-Mexico border.
An associate professor at Point Loma Nazarene University, Johnson says he took his two children, aged 8 and 10, to Border Field State Park in Imperial Beach in June. [...]
http://abcnews.go.com…
U.S. Officers’ “Phone Sex” Intercepted; Senate Demanding Answers
By BRIAN ROSS, VIC WALTER, and ANNA SCHECTER
Oct. 9, 2008—
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who [...]
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NEW YORK – According to newly released military documents, the Navy applied lawless Guantánamo protocols in detention facilities on American soil. The documents, which include regular emails between brig officers and others in the chain of command, uncover new details of the detention and interrogation of two U.S. citizens [...]
http://www.alternet.org/story/102299/
By Christopher Moraff, The Philadelphia Tribune
Posted on October 9, 2008, Printed on October 9, 2008
At the end of the summer, in the wake of the presidential primaries, the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania began receiving some alarming phone calls.
http://www.washingtonpost.com…
Techniques May Be Used in U.S. Without Any Fact Linking Subject to Terrorism
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 4, 2008; A03
Justice Department officials released new guidelines yesterday that empower FBI agents to use intrusive techniques to gather intelligence within the United States, alarming civil liberties groups and Democratic lawmakers who worry that they invite [...]
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER | Associated Press Writer
August 18, 2008
NEW YORK - A judge ordered the CIA to prepare a list of witnesses and documents relating to the destruction of videotapes of detainee interrogations.
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Published: Wednesday July 9, 2008
President Bush is refusing to nominate the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s pick to serve on a government privacy and civil liberties board, raising the prospect that the board will remain member-less and inactive until his term is over.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac…George Orwell
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