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Archives - September 2010

Apr 30, 2008, Daniel Barlow, Rutland (VT) Herald, Law would close book on getting library records without court order

Apr 30, 2008, Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press, US murky on judges' role in reviewing Guantanamo Bay cases

Apr 30, 2008, Alexander Bolton, The Hill, Blue Dogs on Hoyer's FISA Leash

Apr 30, 2008, Jane Sutton, Reuters, Guantanamo cases aimed to pique U.S. imagination

Apr 30, 2008, Associated Press, Hamdan statements at Gitmo hearing

Apr 30, 2008, William Glaberson, New York Times, An Apologetic Boycott in Good-Natured Banter

Apr 30, 2008, Stephen Mathis, Providence (RI) Journal, Protect America, Not Just George Bush

Apr 29, 2008, Michael Melia, Associated Press, Bin Laden driver to boycott Gitmo trial

Apr 29, 2008, Justin Levitt and wendy Weiser, Common Dreams, Aftermath of Supreme Court Voter ID Decision

Apr 29, 2008, James D. Zirin, Forbes, Close Guantanamo--And Then What?

Apr 29, 2008, William Glaberson, New York Times, Ex-Prosecutor Tells of Push by Pentagon on Detainees

Apr 29, 2008, Josh White, Washington Post, From Chief Prosecutor To Critic at Guantanamo

Apr 29, 2008, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Terror trials rushed, officer charges

Apr 29, 2008, Sean Gonsalves, Common Dreams, Who's Feeding the Watchdog?

Apr 29, 2008, Agence France-Presse, Pentagon Suspends Program for Military 'Media Analysts'

Apr 29, 2008, Editorial, New York Times, The Court Fumbles on Voting Rights

Apr 29, 2008, Democracy Now!, Supreme Court Upholds Voter ID Law

Apr 29, 2008, Ian Urbina, New York Times, Decision Is Likely to Spur Voter ID Laws in More States

Apr 28, 2008, Mark Sherman, Associated Press, Supreme Court upholds photo ID law for voters in Indiana

Apr 28, 2008, Philp Shenon, New York Times, Lawyers Fear Monitoring in Cases on Terrorism

Apr 28, 2008, Joby Warrick, Washington Post, Detainees Allege Being Drugged, Questioned

Apr 28, 2008, Jess Bravin, Wall Street Journal, Guantanamo Awaits About-Face

Apr 28, 2008, Evan Perez and Siobhan Gorman, Wall Street Journal, Justice Department Letters Cloud Legal Understandings of Torture

Apr 28, 2008, Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, State Secrets

Apr 27, 2008, Joby Warrick, Washington Post, Administration Says Particulars May Trump Geneva Protections

Apr 27, 2008, William Fisher, Inter Press Service, Groups Wrangle With CIA Over 'Ghost Prisoners'

Apr 27, 2008, Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, Letters Give C.I.A. Tactics a Legal Rationale

Apr 26, 2008, William Glaberson, New York Times, Detainees' Mental Health Is Latest Legal Battle

Apr 26, 2008, Jane Sutton, Reuters, Accused September 11 planner meets his U.S. lawyer

Apr 26, 2008, Matthai Kurivila, San Francisco Chronicle, Looking at people's phobia of Muslim

Apr 26, 2008, Matthew Barakat, Associated Press, Terrorism tag haunts former teacher

Apr 25, 2008, David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, Wall Street Journal, The War on Terror Is Not a Crime

Apr 25, 2008, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Crude comedy tackles America's post-9/11 policy

Apr 25, 2008, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, CIA Foresaw Interrogation Issues

Apr 25, 2008, Michelle Shephard, Toronto Star, Only 33% believe Khadr trial will be fair

Apr 25, 2008, Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle, All the President's Liars

Apr 24, 2008, Tom Eley, World Socialist Web Site, US student held in solitary confinement on terrorism charges

Apr 24, 2008, Andrew Herrmann, Chicago Sun-Times, Men Score Victory in Legal Fight over Terror List

Apr 24, 2008, Connie Paige, Boston Globe, In more public places, cameras are on watch

Apr 24, 2008, Editorial, San Francisco Chronicle, Torture of the law

Apr 24, 2008, Klaus Marre, The Hill, GOP pushes discharge petition to force FISA vote

Apr 24, 2008, Paul Elias, San Jose (CA) Mercury News, U.S. Islamic group argues against warrantless wiretaps

Apr 24, 2008, Associated Press, Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin at Madison), MBTA to search bags as part of terror drill

Apr 24, 2008, Kelli Arena and Carol Cratty, CNN, Lawyer fears 9/11 mastermind trial will be 'insanity'

Apr 24, 2008, Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, Bush lawyer tangles with judge over wiretaps

Apr 24, 2008, Josh Silver, Common Dreams, TV's Response to Pentagon Propaganda? Never Happened

Apr 23, 2008, Christian Science Monitor, Mission creep in DNA data banks

Apr 23, 2008, Associated Press, International Herald Tribune, Romanian lawmakers' report denies that the CIA allowed secret detention centers

Apr 22, 2008, Ian S. Lustick, The Hill, The War on Terror Feeding Frenzy

Apr 22, 2008, Jeanne Meserve, CNN, Fingerprinting proposal rankles travel companies

Apr 22, 2008, Spencer S. Hsu and Del Quentin Wilber, Washington Post, US to Insist That Travel Industry Get Fingerprints

Apr 22, 2008, Nick Juliano, Raw Story, House Dems, Ron Paul targeted over surveillance votes

Apr 22, 2008, Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press, White House Challenges Release of Visitor Logs

Apr 22, 2008, Michael Beebe and Dan Herbeck, Buffalo (NY) News, Art professor Steven Kurtz cleared of federal charges

Apr 21, 2008, Carmen Gentile, Washington Times, Hurdles beset Gitmo tribunal

Apr 21, 2008, Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, From DNA of Family, a Tool to Make Arrests

Apr 21, 2008, Scott Horton, Los Angeles Times, Which came first: memos or torture?

Apr 21, 2008, Editorial, New York Times, Protecting a Basic Freedom

Apr 21, 2008, Carrie Johnson and Walter Pincus, Washington Post, Few Clear Wins in U.S. Anti-Terrorism Cases

Apr 21, 2008, Robert Parry, Consortium News, US News Media's Latest Disgrace

Apr 20, 2008, David Barstow, New York Times, Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand

Apr 20, 2008, Agence France-Presse, US holds German at military base in Afghanistan

Apr 20, 2008, Andy Worthington, Huffington Post, The US military's shameless propaganda over Guantanamo's 9/11 trials

Apr 20, 2008, Editorial, New York Times, The Torture Sessions

Apr 20, 2008, Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, Researchers Fear Border Fence Will Endanger Species Further

Apr 19, 2008, Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian (UK), Top Bush Aides Pushed for Guantánamo Torture

Apr 19, 2008, Katie Zezima, New York Times, Maine Becomes Last State to Tighten License Security

Apr 19, 2008, Editorial, New York Times, The Unfinished Reforms of 9/11

Apr 18, 2008, Dan Browning, Star Tribune (MN), Terror suspect's request for information denied

Apr 18, 2008, Dan Slater, Wall Street Journal, Arlen Specter on Mukasey: “He's a Very, Very Rigid Guy.”

Apr 18, 2008, Jane Sutton, Reuters, U.S. to televise 9-11 trials for victims' families

Apr 18, 2008, Aliza Earnshaw, Portland (OR) Business Journal, Defending Guantanamo Detainees

Apr 18, 2008, Associated Press, Feds to collect DNA from every person they arrest

Apr 18, 2008, Vanessa Blum, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Liberty City Seven terrorism mistrial highlights problem of timing

Apr 18, 2008, Sen. Sam Brownback, Los Angeles Times, Don't put detainees at Ft. Leavenworth

Apr 18, 2008, Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, Professor Sami Al-Arian Could Face a New Indictment

Apr 18, 2008, Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, Tapes Not Part of Court Order, C.I.A. Insists

Apr 18, 2008, Editorial, New York Times, Whose Privilege?

Apr 17, 2008, Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, Does 2nd mistrial doom Liberty City terror case?

Apr 17, 2008, James Oliphant, Baltimore Sun, ACLU seeks Gitmo death records

Apr 17, 2008, Ellen Nakashima and Spencer Hsu, Washington Post, U.S. to Expand Collection Of Crime Suspects' DNA

Apr 17, 2008, Lara Jakes Jordan, Associated Press, Pentagon records detail prisoner abuse by US military

Apr 17, 2008, Editorial, Miami Herald, Terror-trial jurors have spoken -- again

Apr 16, 2008, National Public Radio, Wiretap Story Ran Despite White House Warnings

Apr 16, 2008, Democracy Now!, Gov't Obtains Phone Records of NYT Reporter

Apr 16, 2008, Thomas J. Lueck, New York Times, Police Dept. Settles Suit by Protesters Over Tactics

Apr 16, 2008, Jason Ryan, ABC News, FBI Search Abuses Could Number Thousands

Apr 16, 2008, Human Rights Watch, Reuters, US/Italy: Italian Court Challenges CIA Rendition Program

Apr 16, 2008, Editorial, Washington Post, The Free Flow of Information

Apr 16, 2008, DeeDee Correll, Los Angeles Times, Dick Cheney need not testify in wrongful arrest lawsuit

Apr 16, 2008, Editorial, New York Times, New Jersey's Immigration Crackdown

Apr 16, 2008, Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, Why John Yoo Must Stay

Apr 16, 2008, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press, FBI says problems with letters fixed

Apr 15, 2008, Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, Our Very Own Axis of Evil in Guantanamo

Apr 15, 2008, Siobhan Gorman, Wall Street Journal, LAPD Terror-Tip Plan May Serve as Model

Apr 15, 2008, Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, Democrats blast Mukasey for 9/11 call remarks

Apr 15, 2008, David Abel, Boston Globe, ACLU queries Harvard's police

Apr 15, 2008, Carrie Johnson, Washington Post, Lawmakers Want FBI Access to Data Curbed

Apr 15, 2008, Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times, John McCain 'narrowly' backs law to shield journalists

Apr 14, 2008, Ruth Conniff, Progressive, Torturers in the White House

Apr 14, 2008, Julian E. Barnes, Los Angeles Times, Guantanamo closure no simple prospect

Apr 14, 2008, Associated Press, Boston Herald, Federal appeals judge in Boston named top judge of wiretap court

Apr 14, 2008, Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, Camp Justice

Apr 13, 2008, Candace Rondeaux, Josh White and Julie Tate, Washington Post, Afghan Detainees Sent Home to Face Closed-Door Trials

Apr 13, 2008, Karl Vick, Washington Post, Team-Building or Torture? Court Will Decide.

Apr 13, 2008, Carlotta Gall, New York Times, Video Plucks Afghan Detainees From Isolation

Apr 13, 2008, Drake Bennett, Boston Globe, How to defuse a human bomb

Apr 13, 2008, Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, In Job Search, Gonzales Sees No Takers

Apr 12, 2008, Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, Mukasey defends assertion on wiretapping

Apr 12, 2008, Carmen Gentile, Washington Times, Gitmo lawyers seek acess to classified files

Apr 12, 2008, Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in US

Apr 12, 2008, Jan Crawford Greenburg, Howard L. Rosenberg, and Ariane de Vogue, ABC News, Bush Aware of Advisers' Interrogation Talks

Apr 12, 2008, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, John Yoo: Spearhead or Scapegoat?

Apr 12, 2008, Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times, Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr argues friendly fire might have killed soldier

Apr 12, 2008, William Glaberson, New York Times, Guantanamo Judge Is Urged to Get On With Proceedings

Apr 12, 2008, Philip Shenon, New York Times, Leak Inquiry Said to Focus on Calls With Times

Apr 12, 2008, Stephen Gillers, The Nation, The Torture Memo

Apr 11, 2008, James Ridgeway, Mother Jones, Cops and Former Secret Service Agents Ran Black Ops on Green Groups

Apr 11, 2008, Lara Jakes Jordan and Pamela Hess, Associated Press, Cheney, Others OK'd Harsh Interrogations

Apr 11, 2008, Amy Worthington, AlterNet, The Torture Drawings the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to See

Apr 11, 2008, Editorial, Washington Post, What's a Secret?

Apr 11, 2008, Jane Sutton, Reuters, Guantanamo lawyer questions how U.S. soldier died

Apr 11, 2008, Reporting by Jane Sutton in Miami; Editing by Michael Christie and John O'Callaghan, Reuters, FACTBOX: Facts about the Guantanamo prison

Apr 10, 2008, Carol Williams, Los Angeles Times, Guantanamo defendant calls trial a 'sham'

Apr 10, 2008, Jaime Jansen, Jurist, El-Masri asks OAS rights court to condemn CIA rendiiton

Apr 10, 2008, Tim Golden and David Rohde, New York Times, Afghans Hold Secret Trials for Men That US Detained

Apr 10, 2008, Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, D.C. Will Centralize Security Monitoring

Apr 10, 2008, William Glaberson, New York Times, New Roadblocks Delay Tribunals at Guantánamo

Apr 9, 2008, Jan Crawford Greenburg, Howard L. Rosenberg and Ariane de Vogue, ABC News, Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved 'Enhanced Interrogation'

Apr 9, 2008, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Saudi terror suspect: Military trials a `sham'

Apr 9, 2008, Jane Sutton, Reuters, U.S. Navy lawyer to defend alleged 9/11 mastermind

Apr 9, 2008, Agence France-Presse, CIA Rendered 14 Prisoners to Jordan: Report

Apr 9, 2008, Jerry Markon, Washington Post, Memo Proves Detention Is Illegal, Attorneys Say

Apr 8, 2008, Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, FBI Data Transfers Via Telecoms Questioned

Apr 8, 2008, Scott Horton, Harper's, A Tale of Three Lawyers

Apr 8, 2008, J. Taylor Rushing, The Hill, GOP blocks surveillance extension

Apr 8, 2008, Carrie Johnson, Washington Post, At Justice, New Pressure To Release Documents

Apr 8, 2008, Tom Porteous, New Statesman (UK), The legal niceties of torture

Apr 8, 2008, The State (SC), Sanford still sour on REAL ID

Apr 8, 2008, Robert J. Elisberg, Huffington Post, The Democrats' 81 Percent Solution

Apr 7, 2008, Editorial, New York Times, Another Test for Habeas Corpus

Apr 7, 2008, Julie Lynem, SanLuisObispo.com, What a trip: Passports join the high-tech era

Apr 7, 2008, Shayana Kadidal, Jurist, Torture From the Top Down: Of Memos and Rotting Fish

Apr 6, 2008, David Ignatius, Washington Post, Repairing America's Spy Shop

Apr 6, 2008, Michael Isikoff, Newsweek, A Top Pentagon Lawyer Faces A Senate Grilling On Torture

Apr 6, 2008, Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers, Access to evidence limited in tribunals

Apr 5, 2008, Jameel Jaffer, Guardian (UK), Notes on Torture

Apr 5, 2008, Deborah Bulkeley, Deseret (UT) Morning News, King's nonviolence called one way to counter terror

Apr 5, 2008, Aurelio Rojas, Sacramento (CA) Bee, California State senator targets torture

Apr 5, 2008, Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times, Memo to the Next President

Apr 5, 2008, William Glaberson, New York Times, A Legal Filing Alleges a Detainee Was Abused

Apr 5, 2008, Adam Cohen, New York Times, The Already Big Thing on the Internet: Spying on Users

Apr 5, 2008, Editorial, Washington Post, Tortured Logic

Apr 5, 2008, Robert Fisk, The Independent (UK), The Fearful Lives in a Land of the Free

Apr 4, 2008, Jeff Stein, CQPolitics, Evidence Grows of Drug Use on Detainees

Apr 4, 2008, Mario de Queiroz, Inter Press Service, Questions in Portugal About CIA Flights to Guantánamo

Apr 4, 2008, Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press, Chinese Muslim Challenges Combatant Tag

Apr 4, 2008, Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press, US Defends Detention of Chinese Muslim

Apr 4, 2008, William Glaberson and Neil Lewis, New York Times, 2 Groups to Help Defend Detainees at Guantánamo

Apr 4, 2008, Tom Devine, Roanake (VA) Times, The Biggest Threat to Freedom

Apr 4, 2008, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, The torture memos, declassified

Apr 4, 2008, Editorial, New York Times, There Were Orders to Follow

Apr 4, 2008, Dan Eggen and Josh White, Washington Post, Administration Asserted a Terror Exception on Search and Seizure

Apr 3, 2008, Editorial, The Nation, Guantánamo Endgame

Apr 3, 2008, Phillippe Sands, Vanity Fair, The Green Light

Apr 3, 2008, Associated Press, International Herald Tribune, British rights group hands Portugal findings about secret CIA flights in its airspace

Apr 3, 2008, Lyndsey Layton, Washington Post, Senators Fault DHS Pressure On Real ID

Apr 3, 2008, Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers, As Guantanamo Trials Near, Pentagon Limits What Can Be Reported

Apr 3, 2008, David Vine, Foreign Policy In Focus, The Other Guantánamo

Apr 2, 2008, Bruce Fein, Slate, The Presidency

Apr 2, 2008, Jack Goldsmith, Slate, The Laws in Wartime

Apr 2, 2008, Lara Jakes Jordan, Associated Press, Pentagon Releases Memo on Harsh Tactics

Apr 2, 2008, Terry Frieden, CNN, Lawmakers complain of FBI failures

Apr 2, 2008, Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, Pentagon Is Expected to Close Intelligence Unit

Apr 2, 2008, Ratmond Bonner, New York Times, U.S. and Britain at Odds Over Guantánamo Inmate

Apr 2, 2008, Gary Emerling, Washington Times, Street-sweeper cameras to tackle illegal parking

Apr 2, 2008, Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post, Centers Tap Into Personal Databases

Apr 2, 2008, Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, '03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations

Apr 2, 2008, Dan Froomkin, Washington Post, Call It the Abu Ghraib Memo

Apr 1, 2008, Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, Michael Mukasey and the Ghost of Alberto Gonzales

Apr 1, 2008, Ryan Singel, Wired, DHS Issues Maine Ultimatum on Real ID

Apr 1, 2008, Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times, Pentagon pursues Guantanamo tribunal for embassy bombing suspect

Apr 1, 2008, Associated Press, S.C. Gets Extension On New ID Law

Apr 1, 2008, Siobhan Gorman, Wall Street Journal, Bush Softens on Spy Bill

Apr 1, 2008, Alice Lipowicz, Washington Technology, CRS: Satellite surveillance raises privacy questions

Apr 1, 2008, Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times, Intelligence Director McConnell is cast as a lobbyist

Apr 1, 2008, Graham Snowdon, Guardian (UK), The spy who employed me

Apr 1, 2008, Allison Kilkenny, Huffington Post, Spies R' Us