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Feb 28, 2010, Associated Press, Obama signs one-year extension of Patriot Act

Feb 26, 2010, Kyle Berlin, TruthOut, Congress Reauthorizes Patriot Act, Sidesteps Privacy Concerns

Feb 26, 2010, Paul Steinhauser, CNN, CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens' rights

Feb 26, 2010, Seema Ahmad, Huffington Post, Austin Plane Attack Highlights Double Standards

Feb 26, 2010, New America Media, Arizona Joins National Call for ‘Dignity, Not Detention’

Feb 26, 2010, Daphne Eviatar, Huffington Post, Senate Committee Hearing on Ethics Report Disappoints

Feb 26, 2010, Jason Leopold, TruthOut, National Archives, Watchdog Demand DOJ Probe Destruction of John Yoo's Emails

Feb 26, 2010, Common Dreams, Senate Holds Hearing On Justice Department Torture Memo Report

Feb 26, 2010, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Democrats pull provision on penalizing intel personnel for interrogation methods

Feb 26, 2010, BBC News, Ex-Guantanamo detainee Mamdouh Habib to sue Australia

Feb 26, 2010, Robyn Blummer, Antiwar.com, Guantánamo Deaths Deserve a Closer Look

Feb 25, 2010, Pete Yost, Washington Post, Holder, Gates: Congress should not restrict trials

Feb 25, 2010, Andy Worthington, Public Record, Four Prisoners Freed From Guantanamo

Feb 25, 2010, William Fisher, TruthOut, American Bar Association: Deportation System "Severely Flawed"

Feb 25, 2010, Marcy Wheeler, Emptywheel, The Mock Burial in the OPR Report

Feb 25, 2010, Francis X. Donnelly, Detroit News, State anti-terrorism agency avoids strict oversight

Feb 25, 2010, Larry Margasak, Huffington Post, Senate Passes 1-Year Extension Of Key Patriot Act Provisions

Feb 25, 2010, Kenneth J. Theisen, Berkeley (CA) Daily Planet, Yoo Must Be Held Accountable

Feb 25, 2010, Adam Klasfeld, Courthouse News Service, NYCLU Peels Back Lid on Immigration Jail

Feb 25, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Rep. Reyes Introduces a Measure Re-Criminalizing Torture

Feb 25, 2010, BBC News, Ex-Guantanamo detainee Mamdouh Habib to sue Australia

Feb 24, 2010, Jim Malone, Voice of America News, US Supreme Court Considers Terror Law Challenge

Feb 24, 2010, William Fisher, TruthOut, Cell Phone Tracking: The New Constitutional Crisis

Feb 24, 2010, Catherine Herridge, Fox News, Defense Attorneys Denied Access to Detainees at Guantanamo Bay

Feb 23, 2010, Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy, American values and American justice

Feb 23, 2010, Joan Brunwasser, OpEdNews, More Ellsberg: The Pentagon Papers and John Dean, Then and Now

Feb 23, 2010, Tim Moran, Daily Campus (University of Connecticut), Islam's linkage to terrorism is overstated, stereotypical

Feb 23, 2010, Josh Rogin, Foreign Policy, Senate set to extend Patriot Act without new restrictions

Feb 23, 2010, Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio, Does The Patriot Act Violate Free Speech?

Feb 23, 2010, Bruce Ackerman, Washington Post, How to keep future John Yoos under control

Feb 22, 2010, David Luban, Slate, David Margolis Is Wrong

Feb 22, 2010, Dahlia Lithwick, Slate, Torture Bored

Feb 22, 2010, Dawinder S. Sidhu, SCOTUSBlog, Civil Rights and the Wartime Supreme Court

Feb 22, 2010, Robert Gehrke, Salt Lake (UT) Tribune, UT AG seeks authority to access Internet, cell phone records

Feb 22, 2010, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, The People We Pay to Look Over Our Shoulders

Feb 22, 2010, David Edwards and Daniel Tencer, Raw Story, Petraeus: Harsh interrogations ‘bit us on the backside’

Feb 22, 2010, Nicholas Kulish and Scott Shane, New York Times, Data Show Rendition Planes Landed in Poland

Feb 22, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, An Open Letter to Liz Cheney on Torture

Feb 22, 2010, Zachary Roth, TPMMuckraker, The Torture Memo Author You've Never Heard Of

Feb 22, 2010, David Swanson, After Downing Street, Yoo, Bybee, and Disinformation

Feb 22, 2010, Stephen Rohde, TruthOut, Terrorism Law, the New McCarthyism

Feb 22, 2010, Common Dreams, AG Holder Must Reject Whitewash of Torture Findings

Feb 22, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, The flailing falsehoods of America's war criminals

Feb 21, 2010, William Fisher, TruthOut, Obama Pressed to Release Identity of Telecom Lobbyists

Feb 19, 2010, Matthew Alexander, Huffington Post, Dark Days

Feb 19, 2010, Michael Isikoff, Newsweek, Bush Lawyer Said President Could Order Civilians to Be 'Massacred'

Feb 19, 2010, Common Dreams, Broad Coalition Urges Senate to Defeat Legislation to Block Funding for Civilian Trials in 9/11 Cases

Feb 19, 2010, Akhtar Amin, Daily Times, Ex-Gitmo detainees plan to sue US for damages

Feb 19, 2010, Lt. Col. Barry Wingard, Public Record, No Justice Forever: America’s New Foreign Policy of Indefinite Detention

Feb 19, 2010, Agence France-Presse, Police 'probe torture claims' in new case

Feb 19, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Terrorism: the most meaningless and manipulated word

Feb 19, 2010, Daivd Kravets, Wired, School District Halts Webcam Surveillance

Feb 18, 2010, Mohamed Elshinnawi, Voice of America News, US Policy Appears to Single Out Arab, Muslim Travelers

Feb 18, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Liz Cheney Loves Torture, Doesn’t Understand Interrogation

Feb 18, 2010, Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing, School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home

Feb 18, 2010, Declan McCullagh, CNET, Police push for warrantless searches of cell phones

Feb 18, 2010, Alex Kingsbury, U.S. News and World Report, John Yoo Defends ‘Torture Memo,’ Blasts Bush Administration

Feb 17, 2010, Debora Dupré, Examiner.com, No govt should target people for being born or from a certain country

Feb 17, 2010, Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, Military courts are overrated

Feb 17, 2010, Daniel Tencer, Raw Story, Ruling means Gitmo detainees have no legal protection: rights group

Feb 17, 2010, H.P. Albarelli Jr. and Jeffrey Kaye, TruthOut, The Real Roots of the CIA's Rendition and Black Sites Program

Feb 17, 2010, Norm Schiller, St. Louis (MO) Suburban Journals, Librarians help protect readers' privacy

Feb 17, 2010, Marcy Wheeler, Emptywheel, The FOUR OLC Opinions Retroactively Justifying Telecom Data Collection

Feb 17, 2010, Jeremy Pelofsky, Reuters, U.S. court dismisses suit over Guantanamo suicides

Feb 16, 2010, David Dayen, Fire Dog Lake, Shadow Attorney General Lindsey Graham Decides On Indefinite Detention

Feb 16, 2010, Scott Horton, OpEdNews, Does Dick Cheney Want to be Prosecuted?

Feb 16, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Dick Cheney's taunting

Feb 16, 2010, Jamie Ross, Courthouse News Service, More Civil Rights Complaints Against Arpaio

Feb 16, 2010, Wendy Kaminer, The Atlantic, The Civil Libertarian's Lament

Feb 16, 2010, Anthony D. Romero, U.S. News and World Report, Terrorists Are Criminals and Should be Tried in Civilian Court

Feb 16, 2010, Daniel Woolls, Associated Press, Spain to take 5 from Guantanamo

Feb 15, 2010, Tom Ramstack, All Headline News, Supreme Court to Define When Charity Becomes Terrorism

Feb 15, 2010, Bob Adelmann, New American, Cellphones, Big Brother, & Fourth Amendment

Feb 15, 2010, Agence France-Presse, Spain can accept five Guantanamo detainees: minister

Feb 15, 2010, Associated Press, Administration 'flexible' on 9/11 trial venue

Feb 15, 2010, Times (UK), See Evil, Hear Evil

Feb 15, 2010, Thomas R. Eddlem, New America Media, U.S.-UK Relations Strained Over Torture of Innocents

Feb 15, 2010, New America Media, Arizona Sheriff Arpaio to Unleash 800 Deputies on Undocumented Immigrants

Feb 14, 2010, Shahid Buttar, Huffington Post, 1984 in 2010: Hijacking Democracy to Spy on Americans

Feb 14, 2010, New York Times, Seven Paragraphs

Feb 14, 2010, Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, Hold Onto Your Underwear This Is Not a National Emergency

Feb 13, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Religious faith in government accusations

Feb 12, 2010, Agence France-Presse, Doubts rise over civil trial for September 11 mastermind

Feb 12, 2010, Anne E. Kornblut and Carrie Johnson, Washington Post, Obama will help select location of Khalid Sheik Mohammed terrorism trial

Feb 12, 2010, Sherwood Ross, OpEdNews, U.S.Claims Right To Kill Americans Abroad

Feb 12, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Michael Mukasey: Then and now

Feb 12, 2010, BBC News, Home secretary defends MI5 over Binyam Mohamed claims

Feb 12, 2010, Johann Hari, Independent (UK), Obama's secret prisons in Afghanistan endanger us all

Feb 11, 2010, Editorial, New York Times, Cellphones and Privacy

Feb 11, 2010, Catherine Crump, Philadelphia Inquirer, Cellular User Privacy at Risk

Feb 11, 2010, CQPolitics, New Extension Likely for Key Patriot Act Provisions

Feb 11, 2010, Adam Liptak, New York Times, Right to Free Speech Collides With Fight Against Terror

Feb 11, 2010, Thomas R. Eddlem, New American, Obama Copying Bush-era Detention Policies

Feb 11, 2010, Democracy Now!, Student Files Suit over Detention for English-Arabic Study Materials

Feb 11, 2010, Andy Worthington, TruthOut, Details of British Resident's Brutal Torture by CIA Officers Released

Feb 10, 2010, Zachary Roth, TPMMuckraker, For Immigration Enforcement Training, Arpaio Turns To Controversial Right-Wing Lawyer

Feb 10, 2010, Sahar Aziz, alt.muslim, Another red scare?

Feb 10, 2010, Clive Stafford Smith, Guardian (UK), Binyam Mohamed: A Shameful Cover-Up

Feb 9, 2010, Billy Corriher, Jurist, Attorney General is correct to insist on civilian trial for Abdulmutallab

Feb 9, 2010, Karen Gullo, Bloomberg, Court Blocks Disclosure of Telecom Lobbying Records

Feb 9, 2010, A. Barton Hinkle, Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch, Obama Takes a Blue Pencil to the Bill of Rights

Feb 9, 2010, John Brennan, USA Today, 'We need no lectures'

Feb 9, 2010, Patrick Caruana, Australian Associated Press, Habib stars in play about Gitmo ordeal

Feb 8, 2010, Chris Strohm, Government Executive, Lawmakers race the clock to extend surveillance provisions

Feb 7, 2010, Andrew Sullivan, Times (UK), The three dead Guantanamo men crying for justice

Feb 7, 2010, Senator Russ Feingold and former Congressman Lee Hamilton, Wall Street Journal, The Intel Committees Need the Power of the Purse

Feb 6, 2010, Charlotte Dennett, AlterNet, Why We Can't Afford to Let Obama Give Bush's War Criminals a Free Pass

Feb 6, 2010, Jeff Kaye, The Seminal, Ghost Prisoners? Indefinite Detention? "Hitherto Acceptable Norms of Human Conduct Do Not Apply"

Feb 5, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, The lynch-mob mentality

Feb 5, 2010, Stephen Rohde, TruthOut, John Yoo Renews Claim That President's Authority to Torture Depends on What Is "Necessary"

Feb 5, 2010, Naomi Wolf, Huffington Post, Defense Department Turns Down My FOIA Request for Mohamed Al Hanashi's Autopsy Report

Feb 5, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Civil Libertarians Reject Obama's Guantanamo Closure Plan

Feb 5, 2010, Jacques Billeaud, Washington Post, Judge mulls sanctions against Ariz. sheriff office

Feb 5, 2010, Byron Acohido, USA Today, Google's alleged tie-up with NSA raises concerns

Feb 5, 2010, Ruben Navarrette Jr, Statesman Journal (Salem, OR), A missed opportunity on racial profiling

Feb 5, 2010, Associated Press, Washington Post, Gov't says court can dismiss Uighur detainee case

Feb 4, 2010, Melvin A Goodman, Consortium News, Why Obama Dodges CIA Reform

Feb 4, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, On the claimed "war exception" to the Constitution

Feb 4, 2010, William Fisher, Inter Press Service, U.S.: Immigration Enforcement Prone to Abuses

Feb 4, 2010, Andy Worthington, TruthOut, Bagram: Graveyard of the Geneva Conventions

Feb 4, 2010, Democracy Now!, Ignoring Torture Claims and Questionable Evidence, New York Jury Convicts Pakistani Scientist Aafia Siddiqui

Feb 3, 2010, Bob Geary, Independent Weekly (NC), Obama's torture scorecard

Feb 3, 2010, Steve Palmer, Tenth Amendment Center, Writs of Assistance and National Security Letters

Feb 3, 2010, Susan Crabtree, The Hill, Holder defends decision to try Christmas Day terror suspect in civilian court

Feb 3, 2010, William Fisher, TruthOut, Patriot Act - Eight Years Later

Feb 3, 2010, News and Observer, Anti-torture group questions aviation companies' role

Feb 3, 2010, Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times, Is she a victim of the U.S. or is she 'Terror Mom'?

Feb 3, 2010, Matthew Alexander, Huffington Post, The FBI Is Getting It Right

Feb 2, 2010, Eli Lake, Washington Times, Liberties oversight panel gets short shrift

Feb 2, 2010, James B. Rule, Washington Post, Worse than identity theft? Legal use by government and industry of our private data

Feb 2, 2010, Melvin A. Goodman, TruthOut, President Obama and the CIA: What Must Be Done

Feb 2, 2010, Megan McKee, Jurist, Arar appeals rendition suit to Supreme Court

Feb 2, 2010, Democracy Now!, “America's Secret Afghan Prisons”: Investigation Unearths New US Torture Site, Abuse Allegations in Afghanistan

Feb 2, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, What exactly did Bush and Cheney do wrong?

Feb 1, 2010, Julian Sanchez, Cato at Liberty, Retroactive Surveillance Immunity, Obama Style

Feb 1, 2010, Jeremy Pelofsky, Reuters, Obama budgets $73 million for terrorism trials in 2011

Feb 1, 2010, Adam Serwer, TAPPED: Blog of The American Prospect, The Obama Administration Is Losing A Lot Of Arguments.

Feb 1, 2010, Democracy Now!, Bush Administration Attorneys Clears Torture Memo Authors

Feb 1, 2010, Rachel Donadio, New York Times, Judge Ties Italy Secret Service to Cleric's Abduction

Feb 1, 2010, Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic, A Democracy With Accountability

Feb 1, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Susan Collins spreads central myth about the Constitution