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Mar 31, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Robert Gibbs endorses denial of civilian trials

Mar 31, 2010, Lt. Col. Barry Wingard, Huffington Post, Obama: Bush Lite on Guantanamo

Mar 31, 2010, Canadian Press, Guantanamo detainees' future uncertain despite Obama's pledge to close unpopular prison

Mar 31, 2010, Joseph Huff-Hannon, Guardian (UK), Wikileaks in the Crosshairs

Mar 31, 2010, Karen Gullo, Bloomberg, U.S. Illegally Spied on Islamic Charity, Judge Rules

Mar 31, 2010, Andy Worthington, TruthOut, More Dark Truths From Guantanamo as Five Innocent Men Released

Mar 30, 2010, Jason Leopold, TruthOut, US Recants Claims on "High-Value" Detainee Abu Zubaydah

Mar 30, 2010, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Wall Street Journal, Tech Titans Push for Change in Electronic Privacy Law

Mar 30, 2010, Basil Katz, Reuters, Special U.S. prisons unconstitutional: lawsuit

Mar 29, 2010, Rick Nagin, People's World, Racial profiling of Muslims continues charges speaker

Mar 29, 2010, Charlie Savage, New York Times, Obama Team Is Divided on Anti-Terror Tactics

Mar 29, 2010, Jason Leopold, TruthOut, Torture Diaries, Drawings and the Special Prosecutor

Mar 29, 2010, Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times, In Berkeley, Yoo feels at home as a stranger in a strange land

Mar 29, 2010, CBS News, Detainee Death Sheds Light on CIA Torture

Mar 29, 2010, John Sifton, Slate, The Get Out of Jail Free Card for Torture

Mar 29, 2010, Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press, Specter pushes in Pa. for electronic privacy laws

Mar 29, 2010, Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, Counterfactual: A curious history of the C.I.A.s secret interrogation program

Mar 28, 2010, Michael Gass, TruthOut, No One Should Be Above the Law

Mar 27, 2010, Melissa Eddy, Associated Press, Official: Germany-US talk about Guantanamo inmates

Mar 26, 2010, Valeria Fernández, New America Media, Napolitano Condemns Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law

Mar 26, 2010, Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing, How the American phone companies used to feel about privacy

Mar 26, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Justice Department: We’ve Convicted at Least 390 Terrorists Since 9/11

Mar 26, 2010, Common Dreams, ICE Releases Two Immigrants After Court Finds Their Prolonged Mandatory Detention Illegal

Mar 26, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, The horrible prospect of Supreme Court Justice Cass Sunstein

Mar 25, 2010, Associated Press, US to appeal release order for Guantanamo detainee

Mar 25, 2010, Carol Rosenberg, TruthOut, Obama Appoints New Chief for War Court at Guantanamo

Mar 25, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, When presidential sermons collide

Mar 25, 2010, Phil Leggiere, Homeland Security Today, DHS Intelligence Needs More Oversight

Mar 25, 2010, Yana Kunichoff, TruthOut, Whistleblower Protection Legislation Will Help Some, but Not All

Mar 25, 2010, Carrie Johnson and Julie Tate, Washington Post, CIA videotape investigation appears to be nearing a close

Mar 24, 2010, Larry Neumeister, Associated Press, NY judge: CIA can keep secrets despite ACLU demand

Mar 24, 2010, Agence France-Presse, Two ex-Guantanamo Uighurs arrive in Switzerland

Mar 24, 2010, Michael Isikoff, Newsweek, Pentagon to Name New Chief for Military Commissions in Sign That Gitmo Trials May Move Forward

Mar 23, 2010, Sahr Muhammedally, Foreign Policy, Keep Guantanamo away from Afghanistan

Mar 23, 2010, Azadeh Shahshahani, Huffington Post, Time to Put an End to Racial Profiling in Georgia

Mar 23, 2010, Doug Hanchard, ZDNet, EPIC testifies before Homeland Security Hearing advising it suspend body scanner use at airports

Mar 23, 2010, Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, Moving Guantanamo to Bagram Could Evade Court Jurisdiction

Mar 22, 2010, William Fisher, Huffington Post, Wittes, Goldsmith, and KSM: "Absurd," "Cynical"

Mar 22, 2010, The Talking Dog, Moderate Voice, Interview with Matthew Alexander

Mar 22, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Guantanamo Detainee al-Slahi Wins Habeas Case

Mar 22, 2010, Raw Story, Top US court rejects another Guantanamo Uighur suit

Mar 22, 2010, Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, Bagram Eyed as Latest ‘New Guantanamo’

Mar 22, 2010, Ryan J. Reilly, Main Justice, Justice Ginsburg Calls Attacks on Gitmo Lawyers ‘Unsettling’

Mar 22, 2010, Emptywheel, Jane Mayer to Marc Thiessen: Your Guys’ Ignorance Got Us Attacked

Mar 21, 2010, Joshua Durkin and Ray Storez, Public Record, ACLU’s Wizner: ‘There’s Nothing Military About Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’

Mar 21, 2010, William Ide, Voice of America News, Thousands Rally in US Capital, Demanding Immigration Reform

Mar 19, 2010, Christi Parsons, Los Angeles Times, Feds buying Thomson prison regardless of use

Mar 19, 2010, Adam Serwer, American Prospect, The KSM Trap.

Mar 19, 2010, Laura King, Los Angeles Times, Afghan detainee releases aimed at earning goodwill

Mar 19, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, WSJ: Graham-Emanuel GTMO-for-KSM Deal Reaches ‘Getting-Serious Stage’

Mar 19, 2010, Leah Nylen, Main Justice, GOP Senators Put Holder On Notice

Mar 19, 2010, Robert Fisk, TruthDig, The Terrifying World of Pakistan’s ‘Disappeared’

Mar 19, 2010, Cindy Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF Appeals Dismissal of Warantless Wiretapping Case

Mar 19, 2010, Eduardo Barraza, AlterNet, Sheriff Joe Arpaio challenges march in Washington with largest crackdown on undocumented in Arizona

Mar 18, 2010, David Swanson, American Chronicle, John Yoo Celebrates Sunshine Week

Mar 18, 2010, Bruce Garber, Ventura County (CA) Reporter, Former Bush administration must be held accountable

Mar 18, 2010, Pascal Zamprelli, McGill Reporter (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Counter-terrorism symposium explores security vs. liberty

Mar 18, 2010, Elizabeth Montalbano, Information Week, DHS To Share Intelligence With Some CIOs

Mar 18, 2010, Jonathan Hafetz, Huffington Post, The Big Lie About Guantánamo Lawyers

Mar 17, 2010, Stephen Lendman, Dissident Voice, America’s Secret Prisons

Mar 16, 2010, Jeff Kaye, Fire Dog Lake, U.S. Revokes Visa of Irish Anti-Renditions Activist

Mar 16, 2010, Jeremy Pelofsky and James Vicini, Reuters, Holder defends criminal trials for 9/11 suspects

Mar 16, 2010, Los Angeles Times, An Obama secret: They're rejecting more Freedom of Information requests than those secretive Bush folks

Mar 16, 2010, Ray McGovern, Common Dreams, Yoo Besmirches Legacy of Jefferson

Mar 16, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Obama threatens to veto greater intelligence oversight

Mar 16, 2010, Ed O'Keefe, Washington Post, Obama weighs in on 'Sunshine Week'

Mar 16, 2010, Daniel Nasaw, Guardian (UK), FBI using Facebook in fight against crime

Mar 15, 2010, Cary Fraser, TruthOut, Torture and the Imperial Presidency

Mar 15, 2010, David Kravets, Wired, Secret Document Calls Wikileaks ‘Threat’ to U.S. Army

Mar 15, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, More McCarthyism From Liz Cheney’s Crew

Mar 15, 2010, Emptywheel, The Torture Apologists Ratchet Up the Attack

Mar 15, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Salon Radio: Manipulative use of the term "Terrorism"

Mar 15, 2010, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Report Faults U.S.’s Efforts at Transparency

Mar 15, 2010, Eugene R Fidell, Politico, Why New York's the right place to try Sept. 11 cases

Mar 14, 2010, Agence France-Presse, Justice Department witchhunt backfires in US

Mar 14, 2010, Andy Worthington, TruthOut, What Torture Is and Why It's Illegal and Not "Poor Judgement"

Mar 12, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Sen. Sessions Wants Indefinite Detention for Terrorism Detainees

Mar 12, 2010, Zachary Roth, TPMMuckraker, In Face-Saving Move, Arpaio Withdraws Lawsuit Against Supervisors

Mar 12, 2010, Nicholas Sabloff, Huffington Post, Rove: Im 'Proud' Of Waterboarding

Mar 11, 2010, James Vicini, Reuters, Guantanamo prisoner known as Hambali seeks release

Mar 11, 2010, Gabe Joselow, Voice of America News, US Accused of Human Rights Violations

Mar 11, 2010, David Frakt, TruthOut, In Praise of the Gitmo Bar

Mar 11, 2010, Mike Masnick, TechDirt, Where's The Outrage Over The Gov't Brushing Mass Privacy Violations Under The Rug?

Mar 11, 2010, ACLU, ACLU Demands Disclosure of Basic Facts About Bagram Detainees

Mar 10, 2010, James Zhao, Daily Californian (UC Berkeley), Protesters Assemble Outside Debate Moderated by Yoo

Mar 10, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, The ‘Jihad Jane’ Case vs. Racial Profiling at Airports

Mar 10, 2010, National Whistleblowers Center, Whistleblower Advocates Oppose Senate Bill

Mar 10, 2010, Hsiang-Ching Tseng, Main Justice, Reversal on KSM Trial Could Undermine Holder, ACLU Says

Mar 10, 2010, Agence France-Presse, UN expert slams US for not looking into torture claims

Mar 9, 2010, David Rittgers, Cato at Liberty, The Case against Domestic Military Detention

Mar 9, 2010, RTT News, Leahy Calls On Obama To Make Nominations To Privacy And Civil Liberties Oversight Board

Mar 9, 2010, Editorial, Chicago Tribune, Gitmo defense?

Mar 9, 2010, David Swanson, Public Record, What Would Thomas Jefferson Do If He Were In John Yoo’s Position?

Mar 9, 2010, Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, 'Al-Qaeda 7' smear campaign is an assault on American values

Mar 8, 2010, Jason Leopold, TruthOut, A Campaign Promise Dies: Obama and Military Commissions

Mar 8, 2010, Daniel Tencer, Raw Story, Judge allows lawsuit against Rumsfeld over torture of US citizens

Mar 8, 2010, Gabriel Winant, Salon, Liz Cheney wants to save torture's good name (and her dad's)

Mar 8, 2010, Andy Thayer, Huffington Post, Court Allows Torture Suit Against Rumsfeld

Mar 8, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, For Closing GTMO, Graham Says White House Needs … What It Already Has

Mar 8, 2010, Yana Kunichoff, TruthOut, Arizona to Criminalize Presence of Undocumented Immigrants

Mar 8, 2010, Tom Burghardt, Centre for Research on Globalization (Canada), Obama's National Cybersecurity Initiative: Privacy and Civil liberties are Damned

Mar 8, 2010, BBC News, Lawyers for Guantanamo six contest secret evidence plan

Mar 7, 2010, Agence France-Presse, Ad campaign urges Obama to hold firm on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial

Mar 6, 2010, Mike Robinson, Common Dreams, Ill. Judge Won't Toss Torture Suit Naming Rumsfeld

Mar 6, 2010, Agence France-Presse, US weighs Guantanamo inmate's return to Canada: report

Mar 5, 2010, Julian E. Barnes and Christi Parsons, Los Angeles Times, Quantcast Obama aides seek change of course on 9/11 trials

Mar 5, 2010, Justin Elliott, TPMMuckraker, ABA Blasts Liz Cheney Ad As 'Divisive And Diversionary'

Mar 5, 2010, Ed O'Keefe, Washington Post, Patriot Act doesn't override confidentiality in Census, Justice Department says

Mar 5, 2010, Tom Andrews, Huffington Post, No Deal on Gitmo: KSM Should Be Tried In Criminal Court

Mar 5, 2010, Mary Jacoby, Main Justice, KSM Trial Reversal Will Be ‘Death Blow’ to Obama DOJ, ACLU Says

Mar 5, 2010, Common Dreams, 9/11 Families Urge Obama to Keep Promise To Prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed in Civilian Court

Mar 5, 2010, William Fisher, TruthOut, Forgotten Bagram Prisoners Turn to US Courts

Mar 5, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, The WP: Obama close to reversing Holder on civilian trials

Mar 4, 2010, Valeria Fernandez, TruthOut, Detained Migrant Women Shackled During Childbirth

Mar 4, 2010, Robert Parry, Consortium News, Bush/Cheney Pulled Torture Strings

Mar 4, 2010, Ed O'Keefe, Washington Post, Justice Dept.: Census confidentiality laws trump the Patriot Act

Mar 4, 2010, Sunita Sohrabji, IndiaWest.com, Man Arrested at DNC Files Racial Profiling Suit

Mar 4, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Fire Dog Lake, What If We Skipped The Prosecutions And Went Right To Indefinite Detention Without Charge

Mar 4, 2010, David Needle, eSecurity Planet, Cybercrime Challenges National Security, Civil Liberties

Mar 4, 2010, Adam Serwer, TAPPED: Blog of The American Prospect, Why They Don't Want To Call It Torture

Mar 4, 2010, Jeffrey Kaye, TruthOut, Waterboarding Too Dangerous, Internal DoD Memo Reveals

Mar 3, 2010, Adam Serwer, American Prospect, The New McCarthyism

Mar 3, 2010, Evan Perez, Wall Street Journal, House Passes Resolution Calling Austin Attack "Terrorism"

Mar 3, 2010, Andrea Farkas, Examiner.com, Big Brother database entering Austin

Mar 3, 2010, Julian Sanchez, American Prospect, Obama, Congress Wink at Massive Surveillance Abuses

Mar 3, 2010, Charlie Savage, New York Times, Senator Proposes Deal on Handling of Detainees

Mar 3, 2010, William Fisher, Inter Press Service, Habeas Challenges For Bagram Prisoners

Mar 3, 2010, Washington Post, John Yoo: National security, executive power and the war on terrorism

Mar 3, 2010, Kenneth Roth, New York Times, Obama's Hesitant Embrace of Human Rights

Mar 2, 2010, Daphne Eviatar, Fire Dog Lake, Pressure Mounts on DOJ to Produce Missing E-Mails

Mar 2, 2010, Stephen Rohde, Los Angeles Daily Journal, The Torture Memo John Yoo Should Have Written

Mar 2, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Genuine American exceptionalism on due process

Mar 2, 2010, Jenna Hiller, News 8 Austin (TX), Cameras, Fusion Center draw concern at city meeting

Mar 2, 2010, Steve Palmer, Tenth Amendment Center, It’s Up to the States and the People!

Mar 2, 2010, Alex Habighorst, The Reflector (Mississippi State University), Both parties fail to protect essential liberties

Mar 2, 2010, Warren Richey, TruthOut, Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal by Uighurs Held at Guantanamo

Mar 1, 2010, Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, Military, Homeland Security, Spies on Planned Parenthood, Other Domestic Groups

Mar 1, 2010, Democracy Now!, Obama Signs Extension of PATRIOT Act

Mar 1, 2010, Common Dreams, Grassroots Constitutionalists Distressed by PATRIOT Extension

Mar 1, 2010, Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com, The Road to Dictatorship

Mar 1, 2010, William Astore, TruthOut, Yesterday's Dirty Harry Is Today's Bleeding Heart Liberal

Mar 1, 2010, Leonard S. Rubenstein and Stephen N. Xenakis, New York Times, Doctors Without Morals

Mar 1, 2010, Zachary Roth, TPMMuckraker, Yoo: OPR Probe Was A 'Farce'