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Dec 31, 2008, Gail Russell Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor, Will Obama 'deimperialize' the presidency?

Dec 31, 2008, Siobhan Morrisey, Time Magazine, Should the Military Be Called in for Natural Disasters?

Dec 31, 2008, Washington Post, Judge Denies Release For 2 at Guantanamo

Dec 31, 2008, Spiegel Online (Germany), 'Guantanamo Was a Very Costly Mistake'

Dec 31, 2008, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Torture prosecutions finally begin in the U.S.

Dec 30, 2008, William Glaberson, New York Times, Judge Agrees With Bush in Ruling on 2 Detainees

Dec 30, 2008, Robert A. Hall, American Chronicle, How the President Undermined Civil Liberties

Dec 30, 2008, David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, Bush has successfully defended anti-terrorism policies

Dec 30, 2008, Matthew Alexander, Los Angeles Times, Talk, not torture, gets the information

Dec 30, 2008, United Press International, Surge in security tech seen under Obama

Dec 30, 2008, Andy Worthington, LewRockwell.com, An Interview with Guantánamo Whistleblower Stephen Abraham

Dec 30, 2008, Matthew Borghese, All Headline News, Irish Minister Floats Idea To Take In Guantanamo Detainees

Dec 30, 2008, Ari Melber, The Nation, Ask Obama For a Torture Special Prosecutor

Dec 30, 2008, Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith, Steven Calabresi, Wichita (KS) Eagle, Pro-con: Should Justice Department prosecute Bush officials for torture?

Dec 29, 2008, Amy E. Ferrer, People's Blog for the Constitution, Obama Administration is "Open for Questions"

Dec 29, 2008, Peter M. Shane, Huffington Post, Executive Vigor Without Executive Arrogance I: Ending the Reign of Signing Statements

Dec 29, 2008, John W. Whitehead, Borderfire Report, The Forgotten Man in the War on Terror

Dec 29, 2008, Lee Hamilton, Indianapolis (IN) Star, Intelligence challenges await Obama

Dec 29, 2008, Wendy Norris, Colorado Independent, Fed's fusion center analysis notes privacy risks, mission creep

Dec 29, 2008, Christopher Coats, FindingDulcinea, International Offers to Accept Prisoners Could Aid Obama in Closing Gitmo

Dec 29, 2008, Joanne Mariner, FindLaw, Advice to Obama on Closing Guantánamo

Dec 29, 2008, Matt Corley, ThinkProgress, Bolton: 'In 100 years people aren't going to remember Guantánamo or Abu Ghraib.'

Dec 29, 2008, John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute, The Forgotten Man in the War on Terror

Dec 28, 2008, Editorial, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Homeland Security: Respect civil rights

Dec 28, 2008, Editorial, Albany (NY) Times Union, Tick, tick, tick...

Dec 28, 2008, Kevin Howley, Bloomington (IN) Alternative, 100 words for 100 days

Dec 28, 2008, Daily Mail (UK), Eight years after it was packed with orange jumpsuits, Guantanamo's Camp X-Ray is abandoned to the weeds

Dec 28, 2008, Juan Fernando Gómez, Washington Post, Why Can't I Get Off This List?

Dec 27, 2008, Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times, A child soldier or just a child?

Dec 27, 2008, Allen Keller, Huffington Post, Making His List: Presidential Pardons and Torture

Dec 27, 2008, Cesar Chelala & Alejandro Garro, Common Dreams, Lessons from Guantánamo

Dec 26, 2008, George Harris, Kansas City (MO) Star, Will history vindicate the Bush administration...and other pointless arguments

Dec 26, 2008, Robyn Blumner, Salt Lake (UT) Tribune, It's time to offer recognition to 2008's watchdogs of liberty

Dec 26, 2008, Agence France-Presse, Australia Says It May Accept Guantánamo Bay Detainees

Dec 26, 2008, Julian Sanchez, Ars Technica, Catastrophe keeps us together

Dec 26, 2008, Paul Shukovsky, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Border Patrol grows, and so do concerns

Dec 26, 2008, David G. Savage, Sun Sentinel (FL), Bush legacy may be his anti-terrorism policies

Dec 26, 2008, Sheldon Richman, Media with Conscience, Habeas Corpus Barely Saved

Dec 26, 2008, Carol Rosenberg, Hartford (CT) Courant, Guantanamo Uighurs Remain In Limbo

Dec 26, 2008, Paisley Dodds, Associated Press, Europe changes stance on detainees

Dec 26, 2008, United Press International, France wants common EU policy on Gitmo

Dec 26, 2008, Editorial, Washington Post, Lawyer of the Year

Dec 26, 2008, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Torture Ambivalence Masquerading as Moral and Intellectual Superiority

Dec 24, 2008, James Rosen, Fox News, Obama Sets Ambitious Bar in Pledge to Rein In Executive Power

Dec 24, 2008, Jennifer Turner, Jurist, Obama should close Guantanamo and resist calls for alternative detention system

Dec 24, 2008, Brian Cloughley, CounterPunch, Torture, Slaughter and Lies

Dec 24, 2008, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, Is the Bush administration criminally liable for its lawlessness?

Dec 24, 2008, Jason Leopold, Public Record, Justice Department Classified Cheney's CIA Leak Testimony

Dec 24, 2008, Editorial, Hartford (CT) Courant, Close Guantanamo

Dec 24, 2008, Nathan Hodge, Wired, DHS to Green Card Holders: Fingerprints and Photos, Please

Dec 23, 2008, Editorial, New York Times, The Right to a Day in Court

Dec 23, 2008, Aziz Huq, The Nation, Dismantling the Imperial Presidency

Dec 23, 2008, Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, Obama's Black Widow

Dec 23, 2008, David Gollust, Voice of America News, US Cites Progress on Resettling Guantanamo Detainees

Dec 23, 2008, Democracy Now!, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) Calls for Independent Counsel to Investigate Cheney and Rumsfeld for Violating Torture Laws

Dec 23, 2008, Stacy Sullivan, Salon, Goodbye to Guantánamo?

Dec 23, 2008, Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, The Price Of Their Security

Dec 23, 2008, Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian (UK), Guantánamo prisoner's lawyers accuse US defence secretary

Dec 23, 2008, John Nichols, The Nation, Torture-Fan Cheney Securing Worst Veep Title

Dec 23, 2008, Robert Schlesinger, U.S. News and World Report, Cheney, 9/11, and His Nutty Visions of Presidential Power

Dec 22, 2008, Associated Press, Group requests stay for alleged 9/11 plotters

Dec 22, 2008, Amnesty International USA, Facts and Figures: Illegal US Detentions

Dec 22, 2008, Thomas B. Wilner, Wall Street Journal, We Don't Need Guantanamo Bay

Dec 22, 2008, Associated Press, Denver police cleared in convention arrests

Dec 22, 2008, Patrick Donahue and James Rowley, Bloomberg Wire Service, Germany Mulls Taking Detainees From Guantanamo Bay

Dec 22, 2008, Julian Sanchez, Ars Technica, Cyberwargames test readiness for info attacks

Dec 22, 2008, Jaikumar Vijayan, ComputerWorld, Obama will inherit a real mess with Real ID

Dec 22, 2008, Editorial, Chicago Tribune, Torture in hindsight

Dec 22, 2008, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Cheney says Top Congressional Democrats Complicit in Spying

Dec 21, 2008, Canadian Press, Lawyer calls prosecution of Omar Khadr on U.S. public holiday 'desperate'

Dec 21, 2008, Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Newspapers, Groups want Obama to investigate Bush for war crimes

Dec 21, 2008, Editorial, Clovis (NM) News-Journal, DNA archiving could incriminate the innocent

Dec 21, 2008, Joelle Tessler, Associated Press, Laptop searches at border tighten

Dec 21, 2008, Agence France-Presse, Cheney defends US 'war on terror' policies

Dec 21, 2008, Agence France-Presse, Australia's former Guantanamo inmate Hicks a free man

Dec 21, 2008, Lisa Mascaro, Las Vegas Sun (Nevada), Will lawmakers reclaim power?

Dec 21, 2008, Thomas A. Schweich, Washington Post, The Pentagon is muscling in everywhere. It's time to stop the mission creep.

Dec 20, 2008, Del Quentin Wilber, Washington Post, Judge Orders Exam for Detainee

Dec 19, 2008, George F. Will, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The eventual eclipse of Congress

Dec 19, 2008, Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press, Reporters Committee files brief in FISA eavesdropping suit

Dec 19, 2008, Marjorie Cohn, Common Dreams, Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet, Defies Prosecution for War Crimes

Dec 19, 2008, Jonathan Tepperman, Newsweek, The Noose Tightens

Dec 19, 2008, Damon A. Terrill, Des Moines (IA) Register, Restore rule of law to security, foreign policy

Dec 19, 2008, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Demands for War Crimes Prosecutions Are Now Growing in The Mainstream

Dec 18, 2008, ACLU, Leading Civil Liberties and Human Rights Organizations Urge Obama Not to Create On-Shore Guantanamo System

Dec 18, 2008, Tom Elias, Santa Monica (CA) Mirror, Has Border Patrol Made CA a “Constitution-Free” Zone?

Dec 18, 2008, Julie Sell, McClatchy Newspapers, Culture of surveillance creeps across Europe, despite resistance

Dec 18, 2008, Agence France-Presse, Freed Guantanamo inmate alleges systematic beatings

Dec 18, 2008, Associated Press, Gates asks anew for plan to close Guantanamo

Dec 18, 2008, Editorial, Baltimore Sun, Reality ID check

Dec 18, 2008, Editorial, Boston Globe, Torture starts at the top

Dec 18, 2008, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Committing War Crimes for The "Right Reasons"

Dec 17, 2008, Editorial, New York Times, The Torture Report

Dec 17, 2008, Joanne Mariner, FindLaw, European Support for Closing Guantanamo

Dec 17, 2008, Web Wire, ACLU Rejects Vice President Cheney's Praise Of Guantánamo

Dec 17, 2008, Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith, The Nation, Will War Crimes Be Outed?

Dec 16, 2008, Jaclyn Belczyk, Jurist, US transfers three Algerian Guantanamo detainees to Bosnia

Dec 16, 2008, Jaclyn Belczyk, Jurist, Pentagon appoints new chief judge for US military commissions

Dec 16, 2008, Associated Press, Marine pleads not guilty to killing Iraq detainee

Dec 16, 2008, Julian Sanchez, Ars Technica, Behind the legal fight over NSA's "Stellar Wind" surveillance

Dec 16, 2008, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Pentagon files charges against Bosnian-Egyptian

Dec 16, 2008, Pamela Lehman, Morning Call, Bethlehem's candid cameras make a splash

Dec 16, 2008, Lisa A. Young, Durham (NC) Herald-Sun, Bill of Rights reading honors 'mayor of Franklin Street'

Dec 16, 2008, Dan Olson, Minnesota Public Radio, Fusion centers protect us but at what cost?

Dec 15, 2008, George Packer, The New Yorker, Official Stories

Dec 15, 2008, Jonathan Karl, ABC News, Cheney Holds Hard-Line Stance

Dec 15, 2008, Adam Liptak, New York Times, Justices Restore Suit Brought by Ex-Detainees Citing Torture

Dec 15, 2008, William Glaberson, New York Times, U.S. Is Set to Release 3 Detainees From Base

Dec 15, 2008, Kurt Opsahl, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Second Circuit Rules Against National Security Letter Gag Orders

Dec 15, 2008, Kim Zetter, Wired, New York Times' NSA Whistleblower Reveals Himself

Dec 15, 2008, The Atlantic, The Architect Of Abu Ghraib

Dec 15, 2008, Miami Herald, A detainee's test for Obama

Dec 15, 2008, Pierre Tristam, About.com, Confessions of Guantanamo Detainees: Punishment or Martyrdom?

Dec 15, 2008, Victor Davis Hanson, Fresno (CA) Bee, Changes under Obama might not be drastic

Dec 14, 2008, Associated Press, Report: Justice lawyer leaked surveillance program

Dec 14, 2008, Paul Jacob, Townhall.com, A day for rights

Dec 14, 2008, Editorial, Washington DC Examiner, Beware of using the military for law enforcement

Dec 14, 2008, Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times, Big Brother Hasn't Won

Dec 14, 2008, David Stringer, Associated Press, Chertoff: Obama shouldn't rush on Guantanamo Bay

Dec 14, 2008, Scott Horton, Harper's, The Torture Presidency

Dec 13, 2008, Ruell Marc Gerecht, New York Times, Out of Sight

Dec 13, 2008, Manuel Valdes, Associated Press, Washington a hot spot in Border Patrol's expansion

Dec 13, 2008, BBC News, US hails Lisbon Guantanamo offer

Dec 13, 2008, Thomas R. Eddlem, New American, Senate Report Fails to Call Guantanamo Abuse Torture

Dec 13, 2008, Michelle Shephard, Toronto Star, Doubt cast on Khadr's guilt

Dec 13, 2008, Andrew O. Selsky, Associated Press, Gitmo commander predicts prison won't close soon

Dec 12, 2008, Kenneth T. Walsh, U.S. News and World Report, Cheney Was a Powerful Force During Bush's Presidency

Dec 12, 2008, New York Times, The Detainees

Dec 12, 2008, David Edwards and Muriel Kane, Raw Story, Do 'fearmongering' Dems want Obama to set up Gitmo 2.0?

Dec 12, 2008, Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, New Rule Expands DNA Collection to All People Arrested

Dec 12, 2008, ACLU, ACLU Monitoring Unconstitutional Guantánamo Military Commissions Today

Dec 11, 2008, Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, Report Blames Rumsfeld for Detainee Abuses

Dec 11, 2008, Jaclyn Belczyk, Jurist, Portugal foreign minister urges EU members to accept Guantanamo detainees

Dec 11, 2008, Clovis (NM) News-Journal, U.S. resident's imprisonment endangers rights

Dec 11, 2008, Associated Press, Portugal offers to resettlee Guantánamo detainees

Dec 11, 2008, Julian Sanchez, Ars Technica, CDT to Obama: advent of "the cloud" makes privacy laws dated

Dec 10, 2008, News 14 Carolina, Anti-torture activists rally in Raleigh

Dec 10, 2008, Jaclyn Belczyk, Jurist, Second Circuit rehears Arar rendition case

Dec 10, 2008, Jaclyn Belczyk, Jurist, Alleged 9/11 conspirators postpone offers to plead guilty at military commission hearing

Dec 10, 2008, Richard C. Gross, Washington Times, Feingold urges Obama to reverse Bush measures

Dec 10, 2008, Agence France-Presse, Supreme Court hears case on Ashcroft, Mueller immunity

Dec 10, 2008, Jane Sutton, Reuters, Last Guantanamo trial of Bush era is delayed

Dec 10, 2008, Maria Sacchetti, Boston Globe, ACLU alleges rights abuses

Dec 10, 2008, Jane Sutton, Reuters, September 11 families denounce Guantanamo trials

Dec 10, 2008, Daphne Eviatar, American Lawyer, Second Circuit Hears Argument in Extraordinary Rendition Case

Dec 9, 2008, Jameel Jaffer and Ben Wizner, Salon, Don't Replace The Old Guantánamo with a New One

Dec 9, 2008, Grant Gross, PC World, Civil Liberties Group Asks Obama for Tech Changes

Dec 8, 2008, Andrew O. Selsky, Associated Press, Confessions throw Gitmo 9/11 trials into confusion

Dec 8, 2008, Edward Sieger, The Express-Times (Easton, PA), Surveillance cameras in Easton spark civil rights debate

Dec 8, 2008, William Glaberson, New York Times, Alleged 9/11 Plotters Offer to Confess at Guantánamo

Dec 8, 2008, New York Times, Tortured Justice

Dec 8, 2008, Associated Press, 5 Guards Charged With Manslaughter in Iraq Deaths

Dec 8, 2008, MarketWatch, 78-Group Coalition Led by Nation's Largest Taxpayer Organization Demands Greater Bailout Transparency

Dec 8, 2008, Jonathan Beale, BBC News, Guantanamo dilemma looms for Obama

Dec 7, 2008, Eric Lichtblau and James Risen, New York Times, Panel to Call for Review of Wiretapping of Scholar

Dec 7, 2008, Jess Bravin, Wall Street Journal, Guantanamo Proceedings Subject System to More Scrutiny

Dec 7, 2008, Doug Bandow, Washington Times, Restore the Constitution, Mr. President-elect

Dec 7, 2008, Anthony D'Amato & Jordan J. Paust, Philadelphia Inquirer, Obama must abide by the law and punish the torturers

Dec 7, 2008, Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns

Dec 7, 2008, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, A Democratic insider's call for a new presidential secrecy power

Dec 7, 2008, Mary Robinson & Desmond Tutu, Miami Herald, Respect everyone's rights

Dec 7, 2008, Canadian Press, Defence says witness in Omar Khadr trial withdrawn to 'cover up' abuse

Dec 7, 2008, Editorial, Corpus Christi (TX) Caller Times, Obama's grandfather was a victim of torture

Dec 6, 2008, Jaclyn Belczyk, Jurist, Third Circuit blocks deportation of Egypt detainee despite 'no torture' pledge

Dec 6, 2008, Jason Leopold, Consortium News, Mukasey's 'Nixon Defense' of Bush

Dec 6, 2008, Paisley Dodds, Associated Press, Former Guantanamo prosecutor may be key in UK case

Dec 6, 2008, Telegraph (UK), Barack Obama storms the Guantánamo Bay torture chamber

Dec 5, 2008, Jaclyn Belczyk, Jurist, Congressmen call on Mukasey to explain counterterrorism pardons comments

Dec 5, 2008, Mark Sherman, Associated Press, High court to hear enemy combatant case

Dec 5, 2008, Benjamin Klein, Jurist, Italy court again suspends CIA rendition trial to consider state secrets testimony

Dec 5, 2008, Michael Scherer, Time Magazine, Rollback on Torture? Not So Easy for Obama and the Dems

Dec 5, 2008, Michael Peppard, Commonweal, The Secret Weapon

Dec 5, 2008, Margaret O’Brien Steinfels, Commonweal, Mis-governance

Dec 4, 2008, David Weber, Jurist, Hate crimes against US Muslims down since 9/11: report

Dec 4, 2008, Amnesty International USA, USA: Accountability for 'war on terror' abuses must be high on new government's agenda

Dec 4, 2008, Tim Otty, Guardian (UK), The answer is easy

Dec 4, 2008, Andrew Kalloch, Harvard Law Record, FBI General Counsel defends new guidelines

Dec 4, 2008, Evan Hill, Law.com, Wiretap Suit May Get Room to Run

Dec 4, 2008, Associated Press, Judge suspends trial in rendition case

Dec 4, 2008, Peter Finn, Washington Post, Retired Officers Meet With Obama Aides on Interrogation Policy

Dec 4, 2008, Michael Ratner, The Progressive, Obama Should Prosecute Bush Officials Who Designed Torture Policy

Dec 4, 2008, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Why Do Feinstein and Wyden Sound Much Different on the Torture Issue Now?

Dec 3, 2008, Raleigh News & Observer (NC), Roses & Raspberries: Margaret "Peggy" Misch

Dec 3, 2008, Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times, Bush administration faces new challenges to spying powers

Dec 3, 2008, Jeff Meisner, E-Commerce Times, Judge Mulls Constitutionality of Telecom Immunity Law

Dec 3, 2008, Nick Juliano, Raw Story, Experts urge shift from Bush surveillance abuses

Dec 2, 2008, Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, After Sharp Words on C.I.A., Obama Faces a Delicate Task

Dec 2, 2008, Reuters, U.S. soldiers charged for abusing Afghans

Dec 2, 2008, Jay Roudebush, The Parthenon (Marshall University), Bush continues expansion of executive power

Dec 2, 2008, Canadian Press, As Bush prepares to leave the White House, issue of torture haunts him

Dec 2, 2008, Editorial, Washington Times, Domestic military response

Dec 2, 2008, Gordon Corera, BBC News, Guantanamo 'a stain on US military'

Dec 2, 2008, Ryan Singel, Wired, Analysis: Judge Questions Telecom Immunity

Dec 1, 2008, Jake Oresick, Jurist, Spain aided US rendition flights: report

Dec 1, 2008, David Kravets, Wired, In Courtroom Showdown, Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms

Dec 1, 2008, Jason Leopold, Public Record, DOJ Watchdog: Protecting Civil Liberties Must Be A Priority For Holder

Dec 1, 2008, Matthew L. Wald, New York Times, Nominee Would Lead ID Program She Opposed

Dec 1, 2008, Miriam Rozen, Texas Lawyer, After Guilty Verdict, Defense Lawyers in HLF Case Focus on Appeal

Dec 1, 2008, Jay Carmella, Jurist, Iraq court directs US to free photographer detained for over 2 months

Dec 1, 2008, Maryann Cusimano Love, America: The National Catholic Weekly, An End to Torture

Dec 1, 2008, L Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal, Let's Move Intelligence Out of the 1970s

Dec 1, 2008, Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent, Detaining Chinese at Gitmo a Power Strategy