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Apr 30, 2010, Ryan Singel, Wired, Police Wiretapping Jumps 26 Percent

Apr 30, 2010, Democracy Now!, Gitmo Prisoner Skips Evidentiary Hearing

Apr 30, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, So Was Omar Khadr a Child When U.S. Forces Captured Him?

Apr 30, 2010, Bill Quigley, Common Dreams, Not Just Arizona: Immigration Enforcement Out of Control on Federal Level

Apr 30, 2010, Jane Sutton, Reuters, Guantanamo pants search called humiliating

Apr 29, 2010, David Frakt, Huffington Post, New Manual for Military Commissions Disregards the Commander-in-Chief, Congressional Intent and the Laws of War

Apr 29, 2010, Justin Elliott, TPMMuckraker, Pursuing Bush-Era Case, Obama DOJ Hits Times Reporter With Subpoena

Apr 29, 2010, Al Jazeera, 'US Seeks Deal' in Guantanamo Child Soldier Case

Apr 29, 2010, Andy Worthington, Common Dreams, Fahad Hashmi and Terrorist Hysteria in US Courts

Apr 29, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Gitmo Abuse ‘Contaminated’ Government’s Case, Attorneys Say

Apr 28, 2010, Amy Goodman, TruthDig, Boycotting Arizona’s Racism

Apr 28, 2010, Jeffrey Kaye, Public Record, Thwarting Congressional Oversight Via Presidential Signing Statements

Apr 28, 2010, Edward Yeranian, Voice of America News, Human Rights Watch: Torture 'Routine' at Secret Iraqi Detention Facility

Apr 28, 2010, Marjorie Cohn, Jurist, Arizona Legalizes Racial Profiling

Apr 28, 2010, Aileen Yoo, San Francisco Chronicle, Ex-leader of local Minutemen against AZ immigration law

Apr 28, 2010, Amnesty International USA, Double standards or international standards? Crucial decision on 9/11 trial forum ‘weeks’ away

Apr 28, 2010, Democracy Now!, Gitmo Hearing Weighs Alleged Torture-Induced Confession

Apr 27, 2010, Aliya Sternstein, NextGov, Agencies issue self-evaluations for open government plans

Apr 27, 2010, Col. Morris Davis, Huffington Post, Obama and Change at Guantanamo: Believe It When You See It

Apr 27, 2010, Center for Constitutional Rights, Leading U.S. Rights Group Seeks to Intervene in Spanish Court's Investigations into Bush Administrations Torture Program

Apr 27, 2010, Jesselyn Radack, Los Angeles Times, When whistle-blowers suffer

Apr 27, 2010, David Ingram, BLT: Blog of Legal Times, Senators Weigh in on 287(g) Deportation Program

Apr 27, 2010, Max Fisher, The Atlantic, High Stakes in Obama's First Military Commission

Apr 27, 2010, Jeanne Theoharis, Slate, The Legal Black Hole in Lower Manhattan

Apr 26, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Will Military Commissions Under Obama Differ From the Bush Era?

Apr 26, 2010, Common Dreams, Leverett (MA) Town Meeting Approves Resolution to Welcome Cleared Guantánamo Detainees

Apr 26, 2010, Valeria Fernández, New America Media, Latinos, Blacks Join Fight for Civil Rights in Arizona

Apr 26, 2010, Common Dreams, Senators Should Press Napolitano Tuesday on Local Immigration Enforcement, Says ACLU

Apr 25, 2010, Brian Knowlton, New York Times, More American Expatriates Give Up Citizenship

Apr 25, 2010, Jane Sutton, Reuters, Guantanamo court to review Canadian's torture claim

Apr 25, 2010, Jeff Kaye, Fire Dog Lake, Bush Signing Statements Withholding Information to Congress on Torture

Apr 23, 2010, Heather Murdock, Voice of America News, Frustration Mounts, as Yemeni Detainees Languish in Guantanamo

Apr 23, 2010, Tabassum Zakaria, Reuters, Obama warns of "misguided" immigration efforts

Apr 23, 2010, Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy, The LWOT: NSA under fire; Gitmo gears up for Khadr hearings

Apr 23, 2010, Common Dreams, Rights Groups Issue Open Letter on Upcoming NYC Trial of Syed Fahad Hashmi and Severe Special Administrative Measures

Apr 23, 2010, Thomas R. Eddlem, New America Media, Iraqi Secret Prisons: Taking a Cue from the United States?

Apr 23, 2010, Andy Worthington, Prison Planet, Guantanamo and Habeas Corpus: Judge Rules Yemeni’s Detention Based Solely on Torture

Apr 23, 2010, Jason Leopold, TruthOut, Former Bush Appointee to Plead Guilty to Contempt of Congress

Apr 22, 2010, Adam Serwer, American Prospect, A Kinder, Gentler Gitmo

Apr 22, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, The Obama administration's righteous stance against indefinite detention

Apr 22, 2010, Allison Gendar, Daily News (NY), Libertarian photographer sues Dept. of Homeland Security after arrest for filming courthouse protest

Apr 22, 2010, Kel Munger, News Review (Sacramento, CA), Gitmo still going

Apr 22, 2010, Pete Yost, Associated Press, 5 Chinese Muslims at Gitmo seek a better deal

Apr 22, 2010, Marcy Wheeler, Emptywheel, Why Were the Torture Tapes Destroyed?

Apr 21, 2010, Editorial, Christian Science Monitor, Arizona immigration law must pass the prejudice test

Apr 21, 2010, Mike M. Ahlers, CNN, Groups ask DHS to suspend full-body imagers

Apr 21, 2010, Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News, State Dept Seeks Public Input on Human Rights in U.S.

Apr 21, 2010, Marcy Wheeler, Emptywheel, Holder’s Catch-22 on the al-Haramain Ruling

Apr 21, 2010, Adam Serwer, TAPPED: Blog of The American Prospect, BBC: Detainees At Secret Bagram Facility Being Abused

Apr 20, 2010, Bill Quigley, Common Dreams, Bush Insider Reveals Guantanamo Deception: Hundreds of Innocents Jailed

Apr 20, 2010, Charles Arthur, Guardian (UK), Google releases tool to show government censorship requests

Apr 20, 2010, Leili Kashani, Jurist, Holder should reject military commissions and indefinite detention policy

Apr 19, 2010, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board sits empty

Apr 19, 2010, Karen J. Greenberg, TomDispatch, Obama’s 'Remainees': Will Not One But Two Guantanamos Define the American Future?

Apr 19, 2010, Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, NSA stops collecting some data to resolve issue with court

Apr 19, 2010, Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, Group challenging enhanced surveillance law faces uphill climb

Apr 18, 2010, Stephen Dean, Examiner.com, FBI caught lying to spy on reporters, citizens without court order

Apr 18, 2010, Thomas R. Eddlem, New American, McCain Proposes Indefinite Detention Without Trial for Citizens

Apr 16, 2010, Ryan J. Reilly, Main Justice, Holder to Legal Group: I Can’t Make Everyone Happy

Apr 16, 2010, Democracy Now!, Afghan Prisoners Detail Torture, Abuse at Bagram Prison

Apr 16, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, State Dept. (and Justice?) vs. New Indefinite Detention Rules

Apr 16, 2010, Shahid Buttar, TruthOut, An Administration on Its Heels: Inviting Torture to Appease the Right Wing

Apr 16, 2010, Common Dreams, ACLU In Court Today In Challenge To Warrantless Surveillance Law

Apr 16, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, What the whistleblower prosecution says about the Obama DOJ

Apr 16, 2010, Common Dreams, Group Calls For Completion of Investigation Into Interrogation Videotape Destruction

Apr 15, 2010, Jeremy Pelofsky, Reuters, Holder defends U.S. criminal, military terror trials

Apr 15, 2010, Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, C.I.A. Document Details Destruction of Tapes

Apr 15, 2010, New York Times, Spying, Civil Liberties and the Courts

Apr 15, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, The Obama DOJ's warrantless demands for e-mails

Apr 15, 2010, Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian (UK), Terror suspects held 'illegally' in Afghanistan prison named by charity

Apr 15, 2010, Agence France-Presse, April 22 US appeals court hearing for Chinese Muslim Uighurs

Apr 14, 2010, Julian Sanchez, Cato at Liberty, * Blog Home Previous: Waking Up at Last Accountability for ‘Exigent Letter’ Abuse At Last?

Apr 14, 2010, Sam Stein, Huffington Post, Eric Holder Denounces Liz Cheney's Ad Campaign As 'Reprehensible'

Apr 14, 2010, Col. Morris Davis, Huffington Post, Conservative and Liberal Pillagers Master the Art of Pandering

Apr 14, 2010, Grace Huang, TruthOut, Senator Leahy Pushes for More Patriot Act Oversight

Apr 14, 2010, John B. Bellinger III, Council on Foreign Relations, For Obama, Vexing Detainee Decisions Loom

Apr 14, 2010, Agence France-Presse, US to shut Guantanamo prison 'as quickly as we can': Holder

Apr 14, 2010, Theo Emery, Time Magazine, Why Obama Backed Down on an Embattled Nominee

Apr 13, 2010, William Fisher, AlterNet, Judge Orders Man Once Labeled "Highest-Value Detainee" Released From Gitmo

Apr 13, 2010, Marcy Wheeler, Emptywheel, What Happened to that OTHER OPR Report?

Apr 12, 2010, Andrew Ramonas, Main Justice, Leahy Asks Holder For Patriot Act Safeguards

Apr 12, 2010, Shahid Buttar, Huffington Post, "We Need Courage": Will Obama Nominate a Justice Who Can Help Restore Justice?

Apr 12, 2010, Dawn Pieklo, Care2, What Went Wrong With Dawn Johnsen's Nomination?

Apr 12, 2010, Asim Qureshi, Guardian (UK), The 'Obama Doctrine': Kill, Don't Detain

Apr 12, 2010, Tom Burghardt, Dissident Voice, Court Rules Against NSA’s Illegal Spying, Illegal NSA Spying Continues

Apr 12, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, More cause and effect in the War against Terrorists

Apr 11, 2010, Emptywheel, Daniel Levin Tells Jim Haynes, Again, Not to Torture

Apr 11, 2010, Jeffrey Kaye, Public Record, Former DOJ Official Ignored Damage That Resulted From Waterboarding

Apr 10, 2010, Peter Finn, Washington Post, Federal judge orders release of Guantanamo Bay detainee

Apr 9, 2010, Jason Leopold, TruthOut, Ex-Bush Official Willing to Testify Bush, Cheney Knew Gitmo Prisoners Innocent

Apr 9, 2010, April Baer, OPB News, Willamette Students File Suit For Guantanamo Detainee

Apr 9, 2010, Emptywheel, Wilkerson: Cheney and Rummy Knew Gitmo Detainees Were Innocent

Apr 9, 2010, Andy Worthington, TruthOut, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: The Torture Victim and the Taliban Recruit

Apr 9, 2010, Adam Serwer, TAPPED: Blog of The American Prospect, McCarthy Has Only McCarthy To Blame.

Apr 8, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Civil Liberties Groups Oppose Obama’s Plan to Close Gitmo, Absent Serious Changes

Apr 8, 2010, Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy, The LWOT: U.S. Confirms Awlaki on CIA Hit List; Gitmo Military Trial Begins

Apr 8, 2010, Los Angeles Times, Too Broken to Fix

Apr 8, 2010, Norman Council, People's Blog for the Constitution, Pssst

Apr 8, 2010, Yonat Shimron, News and Observer, Conference targets rendition flights

Apr 8, 2010, Jack Mann, ExecutiveGov, DHS Unveils its Open Government Plan

Apr 8, 2010, Janin R. Wedel, Huffington Post, Warrantless Wiretap Case & Obama: Abuse of Executive Power?

Apr 8, 2010, Adam Serwer, TAPPED: Blog of The American Prospect, Civil Liberties Coaltion: Don't Bother Closing Gitmo If You're Just Going To Bring It Here.

Apr 8, 2010, Sonya Dowsett, Reuters, Spain agrees to take four more Guantanamo inmates

Apr 8, 2010, Daphne Eviatar, Fire Dog Lake, Guantánamo Hearings: A Military Bureaucratic Conundrum

Apr 7, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. citizen

Apr 7, 2010, William Fisher, TruthOut, Corporate Social Responsibility: Wisdom or Window Dressing?

Apr 7, 2010, Austin Raynor, The Libertarian Solution, National ID and Personal Privacy

Apr 7, 2010, University of Texas at Dallas News Center, Expert Worries About Tech’s Threat to Privacy

Apr 7, 2010, Matt Cover, Cybercast News Services, Obama White House Just As Reluctant as Bush White House to Share Intelligence With Congress, Says Former CIA Director Who Served Under Both

Apr 7, 2010, Editorial, Philadelphia Inquirer, Need limits on spying

Apr 7, 2010, Bill Quigley, Indypendent, Not Just Guantánamo: U.S. Torturing Muslim Pre-Trial Detainee in NYC

Apr 7, 2010, Agence France-Presse, Uighurs demand release on US soil

Apr 6, 2010, Dawinder S. Sidhu, Salon, Obama's looming legal trap in Afghanistan

Apr 6, 2010, Uprising Radio, Activists on DHS’s 287g Program: “End It, Don’t Mend It”

Apr 6, 2010, Skeeter Sanders, AlterNet, Why Is Obama Continuing Unconstitutional Bush Policy of Warrantless Surveillance?

Apr 5, 2010, Kim Zetter, Wired, President Ford Approved Warrantless Domestic Surveillance

Apr 5, 2010, Jeff Kaye, The Seminal, U.S. Continues to Block Visa for Irish Anti-Renditions Activist

Apr 5, 2010, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Judge voids scores of captives' habeas cases

Apr 5, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Ross Douthat invents a false claim for "balance"

Apr 5, 2010, Bill Quigley, TruthOut, Not Just Guantanamo: US Torturing Muslim Pretrial Detainee in New York City

Apr 5, 2010, Mike Scarcella, BLT: Blog of Legal Times, D.C. Circuit Abruptly Closes Courtroom in Guantanamo Case

Apr 5, 2010, Democracy Now!, DHS Report Criticizes 287(g) Immigration Program

Apr 3, 2010, Associated Press, 2 former Gitmo inmates settling in new Swiss home

Apr 3, 2010, New York Times, We Can’t Tell You

Apr 2, 2010, James F. Smith, Boston Globe, A once-unwelcome scholar speaks in US

Apr 2, 2010, Adam Serwer, TAPPED: Blog of The American Prospect, Obama Administration Abandoning Racial Profiling Lite

Apr 2, 2010, ACLU, DHS Report Confirms Serious Civil Rights Problems With Local Immigration Enforcement Program

Apr 2, 2010, Virginia Sloan, Jurist, Prosecuting Terror Suspects in Federal Court: The Right Choice

Apr 2, 2010, Sahar Aziz, ACS Blog, Protecting Speech, Preserving Charity: Why the High Court Should Refine “Material Support” Provision

Apr 1, 2010, Dan Froomkin, Huffington Post, Ruling Against Bush Wiretaps Also Slaps Down Obama's Executive Overreach

Apr 1, 2010, Matthew Harwood, Security Management, House Lawmakers Tell Obama to Fill Civil Liberties Board

Apr 1, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, The criminal NSA eavesdropping program

Apr 1, 2010, Adele Stan, AlterNet, Obama Administration Defends Wiretapping Without Warrant — And Loses