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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The Bush administration has increased the likelihood not just that terror will come to “the homeland,” but that it will come from the homeland.”
Tom Engelhardt
August 18, 2008
Oh, the spectacle of it all—and don’t think I’m referring to those opening ceremonies in Beijing, where North Korean-style synchronization seemed to fuse with smiley-faced Walt Disney, or Michael Phelp’s thrilling hunt for eight gold medals and Speedo’s one million dollar “bonus,” a modernized tribute to the ancient Greek tradition of amateurism in action. No, I’m thinking of the blitz of media coverage after Dr. Bruce Ivins, who worked at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, committed suicide by Tylenol on July 29th and the FBI promptly accused him of the anthrax attacks of September and October 2001.
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By Center for Constitutional Rights
Posted on August 14
The following is a release by the Center for Constitutional Rights.
August 14, 2008, New York — The Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued an extremely rare order that the case of Canadian rendition victim Maher Arar would be heard en banc by all of the active judges on the Second Circuit on December 9, 2008. For the court to issue the order sua sponte, that is, of its own accord without either party submitting papers requesting a rehearing, is even more rare.
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Michael
Discourse.net
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:15 EDT
I believe it was Mark Twain who said, “Do good and you’ll be lonesome.”
Whoever said, the case Air Force Reserve Colonel Steve Kleinman proves its truth. Col. Kleinman is one of the heroes of Jane Mayer’s book, “The Dark Side.”
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from AMERICAblog by Joe Sudbay (DC)
Meet Steven Kleinman. He worked for the United States government conducting interrogations who wants to know “why the president’s legal advisers were so intent on rationalizing the violation of longstanding law in order to adopt an approach –- coercion — that experienced interrogation practitioners agree is not just ineffective, but counterproductive.” Kleinman did a Q & A over at Neiman Watchdog.
The guy cuts through the Bush administration’s b.s. about torture — it doesn’t work. Fascinating and thanks to Dan Froomkin for sending this our way:
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