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Archives - September 2010

Dec 31, 2007, Associated Press, ABC News, Joint Chiefs Chairman: Close Guantanamo ASAP

Dec 31, 2007, Samantha Broussard-Wilson, Yale (University) Daily News, Law alumni face off over Padilla case

Dec 31, 2007, Editorial, The Peninsula (Qatar), A chance to defend themselves

Dec 30, 2007, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, Malls: Free speech zones

Dec 30, 2007, Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, Tapes by C.I.A. Lived and Died to Save Image

Dec 29, 2007, Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers, Pentagon sends 10 Saudis home from Guantanamo

Dec 29, 2007, Matthew Moore and Nick Squires, Daily Telegraph (UK), David Hicks Walks Free

Dec 29, 2007, Darryl Fears, Washington Post, Ruling Against Muslim Group Is Overturned

Dec 29, 2007, Editorial, Washington Post, A Tighter Ship at Justice

Dec 28, 2007, Dave Gram, Associated Press, Vermont Town Seeks Bush, Cheney Arrests

Dec 28, 2007, Press Release, Department of Defense, Guantanamo Detainee Transfer Announced

Dec 28, 2007, Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers, Shades of the Watergate scandal

Dec 28, 2007, Patrick Smith, New York Times, The Airport Security Follies

Dec 28, 2007, Editorial, Brattleboro (VT) Reformer, Law-Abiding Nation

Dec 27, 2007, Julie Bolcer, Village Voice, A Walking Call to Impeach Bush Arrives in the East Village

Dec 27, 2007, Knight Ridder, Navy JAG Resigns Over Torture Issue

Dec 27, 2007, William Fisher, Inter Press Service, Legal Community Condemns Destruction of CIA Tapes

Dec 27, 2007, Marjorie Cohn, Common Dreams, Torture Tapes Coverup: How High Does It Go?

Dec 27, 2007, Ellen Nakashima, San Jose (CA) Mercury News, FBI Effort Will Build Biggest Biometric Database

Dec 27, 2007, David Nason, The Australian, Silence on CIA tapes of Habib

Dec 26, 2007, Editorial, New York Times, The Work Remaining

Dec 26, 2007, Joe Palazzolo, Los Angeles Times, Government Lawyers Deny Gitmo Connection With Destroyed CIA Tapes

Dec 26, 2007, Philip Geraldi, Huffington Post, CIA Torture and Other War Crimes

Dec 26, 2007, Bernice Lott, Providence (RI) Journal, Psychologists Should Play No Role in Interrogations

Dec 26, 2007, Letters to the Editor, New York Times, The C.I.A. Tapes: Our Need to Know

Dec 26, 2007, Morris D. Davis, Los Angeles Times, Military commissions: fair or foul?

Dec 25, 2007, Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch, How One Diplomat Fought Against Rendition

Dec 24, 2007, Burke Hansen, The Register (UK), Rendition lawsuit targets aerospace giant Boeing

Dec 24, 2007, Andrew Sullivan, Times (UK), The Torture Tape Fingering Bush As a War Criminal

Dec 24, 2007, Klaus Marre, The Hill, Kean Says CIA Is Parsing Words on Interrogation Tapes

Dec 23, 2007, Tim Weiner, New York Times, Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950

Dec 23, 2007, Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen, Washington Post, CIA Tapes Were Kept From 9/11 Panel, Report Says

Dec 23, 2007, Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times, CIA needs more taping, experts say

Dec 22, 2007, Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times, Judge reluctant to probe tapes case

Dec 22, 2007, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, Reid retreats on eavesdropping bill

Dec 22, 2007, Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics

Dec 22, 2007, Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post, Guantanamo Evidence May Have Been Destroyed

Dec 22, 2007, Editorial, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Spying on Us

Dec 21, 2007, Miami Herald, Let Congress, courts probe CIA tapes case

Dec 21, 2007, Peter Baker and Joby Warrick, Washington Post, CIA Seeks Investigation Of Ex-Officer's Claims

Dec 20, 2007, Michael Abramowitz and Joby Warrick, Washington Post, White House Lawyers Told Of Videotapes

Dec 20, 2007, Tim Roemer, Washington Post, How to Fix Intelligence Oversight

Dec 20, 2007, Philip Shenon, New York Times, Mukasey Signals He’ll Be a Strong Bush Advocate

Dec 20, 2007, Miami Herald, Take a stand for the rule of law

Dec 20, 2007, Julian Sanchez, Reason, Time for Democrats to Lead on FISA

Dec 20, 2007, BBC News, Bin Laden driver to face tribunal

Dec 20, 2007, Gannett News Service, Hmong win relief from anti-terrorist law

Dec 20, 2007, Agence France-Presse, Ex-Guantanamo detainees freed in London

Dec 20, 2007, Vikram Dodd, Guardian (UK), Tortuous path out of prison for Guantánamo 3

Dec 20, 2007, Vikram Dodd, Patrick Wintour and Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian (UK), Guantánamo three will not face charges

Dec 20, 2007, William Fisher, Inter Press Service, “Black Site” Survivor Relates Horrific Tale

Dec 20, 2007, Scott Shane, New York Times, CIA to Cooperate With House on Tapes

Dec 20, 2007, Nicola Boden, The Independent (UK), Lawyer Condemns 'Lies' Over Guantanamo Detainees’ Release

Dec 20, 2007, Peter Erlinder, St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, Inherent Powers, Ignoble History Make New Idea Anything But Innocuous

Dec 19, 2007, Associated Press, France Convicts 5 Former Guantánamo Inmates

Dec 19, 2007, Hartford (CT) Courant, Time To Interrogate CIA

Dec 19, 2007, New York Times, Bad Bill Now, Bad Bill Later

Dec 19, 2007, Jason Rhyne, Raw Story, Hearsay, secrecy were fair game at Hamdan 'free-for-all'

Dec 19, 2007, Agence France-Presse, British-linked Guantanamo inmates back in Britain

Dec 19, 2007, Linda Milazzo, Huffington Post, Maxine & Ted -- Don't Call Us If You Call Us Terrorists!

Dec 19, 2007, Andrew Cohen, CBS News, "Tapegate" Comes to the White House

Dec 19, 2007, Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane, New York Times, Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of C.I.A.Tapes

Dec 19, 2007, Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times, Destruction of CIA Tapes May Have Violated a Court Order

Dec 19, 2007, Elizabeth Holtzman, Huffington Post, No Vice President Is Above the Law

Dec 19, 2007, Lara Jakes Jordan, Associated Press, Senators Dangle CIA Case Over Nominee

Dec 19, 2007, Amy Goodman, AlterNet, What Happens at a CIA 'Black Site'

Dec 19, 2007, Scott Albright, Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press, FOIA Bill Passes Congress, Awaits President's Signature

Dec 19, 2007, Peter Grier, Christian Science Monitor, As judge orders CIA tape inquiry, Mukasey faces first test

Dec 19, 2007, Euro News, Five Frenchmen freed from Guantanamo

Dec 18, 2007, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press, Congress Eases Access to Government Records

Dec 18, 2007, John Bentley, CBS News, Thompson: No Habeus Corpus for Gitmo Prisoners

Dec 18, 2007, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Judge orders hearing on CIA destruction of interrogation tapes

Dec 18, 2007, James Oliphant, Baltimore Sun, Senate punts FISA bill in face of discord

Dec 18, 2007, Dan Froomkin, Washington Post, Bush's Exhibit A for Torture

Dec 17, 2007, Associated Press, Laotian, Hmong immigrants protest Patriot Act

Dec 17, 2007, ACLU, Victory for Civil Liberties

Dec 17, 2007, Pamela Hess, Miami Herald, Surveillance bill delayed until 2008

Dec 17, 2007, James Oliphant, Baltimore Sun, Showdown on FISA bill looming

Dec 17, 2007, Sam Stein, Huffington Post, Dodd Prepares To Filibuster Warrantless Surveillance Bill

Dec 17, 2007, Agence France-Presse, US lawmakers refuse to back down from CIA tape probe

Dec 17, 2007, Thomas Ferraro, Reuters, Bush's phone immunity demand wins initial Senate vote

Dec 16, 2007, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Officials Seek to Protect Firms Aiding NSA Spying

Dec 16, 2007, Darius Rejali, Boston Globe, Torture, American Style

Dec 15, 2007, David Johnston and Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, Delay Is Sought by Justice Dept. on C.I.A. Inquiry

Dec 15, 2007, Jason Dearen, Associated Press, Ex-Worker: Air Firm Aided CIA Renditions

Dec 15, 2007, Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press, Judge Urged Not to Ask About CIA Tapes

Dec 15, 2007, Mohamed Vall, Al Jazeera, Back from Guantanamo

Dec 15, 2007, Agence France-Presse, Congress, Bush in clash over CIA interrogation tapes

Dec 15, 2007, Charlie Savage, Boston Globe, Control Sought Over Military Laweyrs

Dec 14, 2007, Jason Dearen, Associated Press, Ex-Worker: Air Firm Aided CIA Renditions

Dec 14, 2007, Scott Shane, New York Times, House Passes Restrictions on Interrogation Methods

Dec 14, 2007, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, 'Liberty'

Dec 14, 2007, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, 'Justice'

Dec 14, 2007, Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters, UN Rights Envoy Suspects CIA of Guantanamo Torture

Dec 14, 2007, Curt Anderson, Associated Press, Miami Terror Trial: One Acquittal, Six Mistrials

Dec 14, 2007, Ben Macintyre, Times (UK), 800 years on, still a great read

Dec 14, 2007, Andy Worthington, CounterPunch, Guantánamo and the Supreme Court

Dec 14, 2007, Spencer Ackerman, TPMMuckraker, Reid Chooses Admin-Friendly Measure as Basis for Surveillance Bill

Dec 14, 2007, Patrick Lyons, New York Times, Of Orwell, Wikipedia and Guantánamo Bay

Dec 14, 2007, Ryan Singel, Wired, Warrantless Spying Showdown Postponed to Monday

Dec 14, 2007, Alice Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week, Real ID grants to assist states: DHS announces funding guidelines

Dec 13, 2007, Pamela Hess, Associated Press, House Votes to Ban Harsh C.I.A. Methods

Dec 13, 2007, Ralph Lopez, Boston Now, Why are destroyed CIA tapes so important?

Dec 13, 2007, Kris Alingod, All Headline News, Alberto Gonzales Is The American Bar Association's "Lawyer Of The Year"

Dec 13, 2007, An Phoblacht (Ireland), Human rights report slams Shannon rendition flights

Dec 13, 2007, Frank Jordans, Associated Press, UN Expert: Guantanamo Hearings Unfair

Dec 13, 2007, Rosa Brooks, Los Angeles Times, Torture's blame game

Dec 13, 2007, Editorial, Miami Herald, CIA: No video, no problem

Dec 13, 2007, Josh White, Washington Post, Lawyers Assert That Pentagon Overstates Ex-Detainee Threat

Dec 12, 2007, Ryan Singel, Wired, Surveillance Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means

Dec 12, 2007, James Risen, New York Times, Surveillance Court Declines to Release Secret Opinions

Dec 12, 2007, Editorial, Baltimore Sun, The law is clear

Dec 12, 2007, Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor, Central question in furor over CIA tapes: Is waterboarding torture?

Dec 12, 2007, Ray McGovern, Common Dreams, Are Americans Really 'Better Than That?'

Dec 11, 2007, Hina Shamsi, Salon, CIA coverups and American injustice

Dec 11, 2007, Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, War vs. Terrorism Debate in Embassy Bomb Appeal

Dec 11, 2007, Keith St. Clair, Associated Press, Appeals Court Upholds Patriot Act Ruling

Dec 11, 2007, Matthew Rothschild, Progressive, Even Guantanamo Chief Prosecutor Calls Military Commissions Unfair

Dec 11, 2007, Helen Fessenden, The Hill, Only few saw the key FISA court rulings

Dec 11, 2007, Agence France-Presse, US intel chief faces grilling amid torture claims

Dec 11, 2007, James Oliphant, Baltimore Sun, CIA flap: Mukasey's 'first real test.'

Dec 11, 2007, Josh White, Washington Post, Lawyers Assert That Pentagon Overstates Ex-Detainee Threat

Dec 11, 2007, Aziz Huq, The Nation, Torture Tapes: Failure at All Levels

Dec 10, 2007, Senator Ron Wyden, Washington Times, FISA Should Protect U.S. Citizens Overseas

Dec 10, 2007, James Oliphant, Chicago Tribune, Supreme Court revisits Guantanamo's legal process

Dec 10, 2007, Agence France-Presse, US credibility damaged by CIA tape affair: lawmakers

Dec 10, 2007, Ron Wyden, Washington Post, Rights That Travel

Dec 10, 2007, Editorial, San Francisco Chronicle, The wrong way to fight terrorism

Dec 10, 2007, John Nichols, The Nation, Pelosi and Torture

Dec 9, 2007, Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times, Justice, CIA watchdog launch inquiry

Dec 9, 2007, Times Staff Writers, Los Angeles Times, The facts behind the CIA tape inquiry

Dec 9, 2007, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, The Supreme Court's habeas hearing

Dec 9, 2007, Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, How to Keep an Ex-Terrorist Talking

Dec 9, 2007, Editorial, New York Times, In Arrogant Defense of Torture

Dec 9, 2007, Chris Suellentrop, New York Times, What the Democrats Knew and When They Knew It

Dec 9, 2007, Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002

Dec 9, 2007, William Glaberson, New York Times, Man Held by CIA Says He Was Tortured

Dec 9, 2007, David Johnston, New York Times, Destruction of C.I.A. Tapes Could Alter Prosecutions

Dec 8, 2007, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, “Missing” Evidence Is Familiar Bush Pattern

Dec 8, 2007, Jonathan Hafetz, American Prospect, Time for Meaningful Justice at Guantanamo

Dec 8, 2007, Ed Pilkington, Guardian (UK), Four British residents freed from Guantánamo

Dec 8, 2007, Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, C.I.A. Was Urged to Keep Interrogation Videotapes

Dec 8, 2007, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Congress Looks Into Obstruction as Calls for Justice Inquiry Rise

Dec 8, 2007, Bob Herbert, New York Times, Spies Like You and Me

Dec 7, 2007, Bob Kerr, Providence (RI) Journal, A man who fears for the Constitution walks to D.C. to be heard

Dec 7, 2007, Bob Kerr, Providence (RI) Journal, A man who fears for the Constitution walks to D.C. to be heard

Dec 7, 2007, Pedro Ruz Gutierrez, Legal Times, Capitol Hill Takes Aim at DOJ Watchdog

Dec 7, 2007, Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, C.I.A. Destroyed 2 Tapes Showing Interrogations

Dec 7, 2007, Scott Shane, New York Times, Lawmakers Back Limits on Interrogation Tactics

Dec 7, 2007, Agence France-Presse, Don't send back Algerian Guantanamo inmate: lawyer

Dec 7, 2007, William Rees-Mogg, Daily Reckoning (Australia), U.S. Extradition Laws Create Anxiety in U.K.

Dec 7, 2007, Eleanor Stables, Congressional Quarterly, Arizona Pledges Allegiance to Real ID, Enhanced Drivers Licenses

Dec 6, 2007, Stephanie Kraft, Valley Advocate, In Harman's Way: House rubber-stamps move on "homegrown terrorism"

Dec 6, 2007, William Glaberson, New York Times, Defense Challenges Status of Guantánamo Detainee

Dec 6, 2007, Tony Mauro, Legal Times, High Court Justices Clash on Detainee Rights

Dec 6, 2007, Lance Vaillancourt, Colorado Daily, Boulder residents rally for civil liberties

Dec 6, 2007, The Australian, Guantanamo question back before top court

Dec 6, 2007, Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, Justices to Answer Detainee Rights Question

Dec 6, 2007, David Alexander, Reuters, First witness at Hamdan hearing

Dec 6, 2007, Philippe Gohier, Maclean's (Canada), In third attempt, U.S. military tries Omar Khadr for war crimes

Dec 6, 2007, Tim Shorrock, CorpWatch, Bush Goes Private to Spy on You

Dec 5, 2007, Roy Mark, eWeek.com, New Telco Immunity Bill Draws Fire

Dec 5, 2007, Jon Wiener, The Nation, Arguing About Gitmo

Dec 5, 2007, Associated Press, New York Times, Supreme Court Hearing Guantánamo Cases

Dec 5, 2007, Editorial, New York Times, A Key Moment for Justice

Dec 5, 2007, Editorial, Washington Post, Their Day in Court

Dec 5, 2007, Andrea Robinson, Miami Herald, Activist's treatment by police questioned

Dec 5, 2007, David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, Supreme Court weighs Guantanamo hearings

Dec 5, 2007, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, Gitmo inmates deserve protection

Dec 5, 2007, BBC News, BBC News, Guantanamo legal showdown begins

Dec 5, 2007, James Oliphant, Chicago Tribune, High Court to Review Guantanamo

Dec 4, 2007, Brandt Goldstein, Wall Street Journal, Guantanamo: The Prequel

Dec 4, 2007, Kevin Drawbaugh, Guardian (UK), U.S. Congress' terror insurance fight in final rounds

Dec 4, 2007, Marjorie Cohn, Common Dreams, Guantanamo Detainees' Fate at Stake in Boumediene

Dec 4, 2007, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Gitmo detainee slashes his own throat, in shower

Dec 3, 2007, Jonathan Hafetz, Baltimore Sun, Give detainees their day in court

Dec 3, 2007, Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor, What's A Fair Sentence For Jose Padilla?

Dec 3, 2007, Sahr MuhammedAlly, Human Rights First, Another Hearing at Guantánamo, Another Day of Government Policies on Trial

Dec 3, 2007, Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, For Justices, Another Day on Detainees

Dec 3, 2007, Russell Mokhiber, Common Dreams, Civics 101: USA v. Al-Arian

Dec 3, 2007, KAUZ Television, City Council to Protect Civil Liberties

Dec 3, 2007, Bill Cameron, National Lawyers Guild, Bay Area Indymedia, Law Organizations Oppose Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act

Dec 3, 2007, Melanie Scarborough, San Francisco Chronicle, Somebody Is Lying About FISA

Dec 2, 2007, Todd R. Brown, Oakland (CA) Tribune, American Muslim Voice Hosts Newark Conference

Dec 2, 2007, Reid Magney, La Crosse (WI) Tribune, Feingold: You can fight Patriot Act

Dec 2, 2007, Mark Sherman, Associated Press, High court to weigh rights of detainees at Guantanamo Bay

Dec 2, 2007, Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers, Detainee cases head to Supreme Court

Dec 2, 2007, David Leppard, Times (UK), US Says It Has Right to Kidnap British Citizens

Dec 2, 2007, Arsalan Iftikhar, Buffalo (NY) News, Romney, a Victim of Bigotry, Turns On US Muslims

Dec 2, 2007, Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio, High Court Revisits Guantanamo Detainee Rights

Dec 1, 2007, William McCall, Medford (OR) Mail Tribune, Complaint Filed Over Government Eavesdropping

Dec 1, 2007, Michael Berg, The State (SC), Yielding liberties won’t protect us

Dec 1, 2007, Michele Mihalovich, Ashland (OR) Daily Tidings, Seda: It's Good to be Home

Dec 1, 2007, Craig Whitlock, Washington Post, Torture alleged at CIA prison abroad

Dec 1, 2007, Howard Kline, Jurist, Bush presses case for 'modernizing' FISA

Dec 1, 2007, Charlie Savage, Boston Globe, Signing statement is president's first since 2006

Dec 1, 2007, Jules Boykoff, Common Dreams, 'Homegrown' Suppression of Dissent

Dec 1, 2007, Kirk Semple, New York Times, Defense Ends Its Arguments in Terrorism Trial in Miami

Dec 1, 2007, Naomi Klein, The Nation, Guns Beat Green: The Market Has Spoken

Dec 1, 2007, William Glaberson, New York Times, Witness Names to Be Withheld From Detainee

Dec 1, 2007, Tom Allard, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Government knew of Habib's torture