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May 30, 2010, Aisha Ghani, Common Dreams, The Grim Future Of Bagram Litigation
May 30, 2010, Billy Corriher, Sun Sentinel (FL), Arizona's Law: Police Shouldn't be Immigration Cops
May 30, 2010, Editorial, Miami Herald, Guantánamo and the Absence of Justice
May 29, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Pure Kafka
May 28, 2010, Brent Budowsky, The Hill, Congress should call Karl Rove to testify under oath
May 28, 2010, Marcia Coyle, Law.com, Legal Groups Line Up Against Proposal to Investigate Gitmo Lawyers
May 27, 2010, Christopher Dickey, Newsweek, Reading,Ranting, and Arithmetic
May 27, 2010, Richard Adhikari, Tech News World, Privacy Groups: Facebook Can't Be Trusted
May 27, 2010, Ishita Srivastava, Restore Fairness Blog, Doing the right thing can get you deported
May 27, 2010, ubetchaiam, The Seminal, Guantanamo Bay Whistleblower Retaliated Against
May 27, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Democrats and the McCarthyite attack on detainee lawyers
May 27, 2010, William Fisher, Antiwar.com, Rights Groups Condemn Ruling on Bagram Detainees
May 27, 2010, Michael Cicero, Ventura County (CA) Reporter, Preserving civil liberties supports our troops
May 27, 2010, Adam Serwer, TAPPED: Blog of The American Prospect, Justice Department Gearing Up to Challenge AZ Immigration Law
May 27, 2010, Austin Raynor, The Libertarian Solution, Due Process and the War on Terror
May 27, 2010, Paul Simao, Reuters, UNICEF head opposed to Khadr trial at Guantanamo
May 27, 2010, Editorial, Washington Post, Politics and fear-mongering keep Guantanamo open
May 27, 2010, Ian Cobain, Guardian (UK), Torture inquiry should leave no stone unturned, says Amnesty
May 27, 2010, Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica, Privacy groups on Facebook updates: meh
May 26, 2010, Peter Grier, Christian Science Monitor, Police chiefs pan Arizona immigration law: Federal lawsuit coming?
May 26, 2010, Amy Goodman, TruthDig, Alleged Chicago Torturer’s Overdue Day in Court
May 26, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, American demands for civilian trials of accused Terrorists
May 26, 2010, Raza Rasheed, The Dartmouth (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH), Executing Restraint
May 26, 2010, Jessica Vess, KVUE-TV (Austin, TX), Law enforcement agencies push for fusion center
May 26, 2010, Heidi Vogt, Associated Press, US prison in Afghanistan to hold first trial
May 26, 2010, William Fisher, Inter Press Service, Rights Groups Condemn Ruling on Bagram Detainees
May 25, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, War on whistle-blowers intensifies
May 25, 2010, William Fisher, Antiwar.com, US Towns Open Doors to Cleared Gitmo Prisoners
May 25, 2010, Kenneth J. Theisen, CounterCurrents.org, The End Of Habeas Corpus: This Is “Justice” In Obama’s America
May 25, 2010, Emily Berman, Politico, Detention promises ring hollow
May 25, 2010, Thomas Frank, USA Today, Pushy fliers may show up on TSA's radar
May 24, 2010, Andy Worthington, Common Dreams, House Kills Plan to Close Guantánamo
May 24, 2010, Amy Goodman, AlterNet, Trial Begins for Ex-Chicago Police Lt. Accused of Torturing More than 100 Black Men
May 23, 2010, Editorial, New York Times, Tainted Justice
May 21, 2010, Steve Vladeck, PrawfsBlawg, Out-of-Theater Capture (or, Why Maqaleh's Narrow Reasoning Sweeps So Broadly)
May 21, 2010, Chandra Bhatnagar, CNN, Arizona violating treaty ratified by U.S.
May 21, 2010, Congress Daily, TSA viewed as 'profiling' in new screening program
May 21, 2010, James Vicini, Reuters, U.S. court rejects appeal by Afghanistan prisoners
May 21, 2010, Charlie Savage, New York Times, House Panel Rejects a Plan to Shift Detainees to Illinois
May 21, 2010, Associated Press, Britain to hold inquiry into torture complaints
May 21, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Obama wins the right to detain people with no habeas review
May 21, 2010, Common Dreams, Federal Court Rules Bagram Prisoners Can't Challenge Their Detention In U.S. Courts
May 20, 2010, Ofelia Yanez, AlterNet, “This Law Will Make Me Feel Like a Nazi” – Arizona Cop
May 20, 2010, Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor, Felipe Calderon calls Arizona immigration law racial profiling
May 20, 2010, Pete Yost, Associated Press, 'Modifying' Miranda modifies the political debate
May 20, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, House Panel Deals Gitmo Closure a Major Setback
May 20, 2010, Al Jazeera, Guantanamo forever?
May 20, 2010, Common Dreams, Constitution Project Releases 'Statement Opposing the Terrorist Expatriation Act'
May 20, 2010, Yana Kunichoff, TruthOut, ACLU Fights Restrictive, Unconstitutional Arizona Law in Court
May 20, 2010, Stacy Teicher Khadaroo,, Christian Science Monitor, College student and illegal immigrant: Should she stay or go?
May 20, 2010, Al Jazeera, Inside Story - Facebook's privacy policy
May 19, 2010, Michael German and Richard A. Rossman, Roll Call, Keep Constitution Intact When Interrogating Terrorists
May 19, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, WikiLeaks founder has his passport confiscated
May 19, 2010, Adam Serwer, TAPPED: Blog of The American Prospect, Is Rand Paul Good For Civil Liberties?
May 19, 2010, John Briganti, Hi-Desert Star (Yucca Valley, CA), Federal government still overreaching
May 18, 2010, Editorial, SnoValley Star (King County, WA), Fear doesn’t justify stripping civil liberties
May 18, 2010, Larry Neumeister, Associated Press, Guantanamo detainee claims post-traumatic stress
May 18, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Obama and the myth of the public opinion excuse
May 18, 2010, Michael Sheridan, Daily News (NY), Cops: Arizona's anti-illegal immigration law mandates 'racial profiling'
May 18, 2010, Michael Stone, Examiner.com, Seattle will boycott Arizona
May 18, 2010, John W. Whitehead, The American Muslim, Getting After the Devil: Obama and Civil Liberties
May 18, 2010, Andy Worthington, TruthOut, Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah's Web
May 17, 2010, Peter Spiegel & Siobhan Gorman, Wall Street Journal, Pentagon to Tape Interrogations
May 17, 2010, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Guantánamo hearings aren't any more transparent, critics say
May 17, 2010, ACLU, ACLU and Civil Rights Groups File Legal Challenge to Arizona Racial Profiling Law
May 17, 2010, Tom Burghardt, Dissident Voice, Obama’s Slippery Slope: Ginning-Up the “Terror” Threat, Shredding the Constitution
May 17, 2010, Morris Davis, Huffington Post, Obama, Death Panels, and the Washington Redskins: Targeted Assassinations or Murder?
May 17, 2010, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Diverse Coalition Urges Attorney General Holder to Reconsider His Call to Weaken Miranda Rights
May 16, 2010, Agence France-Presse, Maldives offers to take two Guantanamo Bay prisoners
May 15, 2010, David Yonke, Toledo (OH) Blade, Lawyer is set to speak at UT on dangers to citizens' rights
May 14, 2010, Editorial, New York Times, The Threat to Miranda
May 14, 2010, Common Dreams, Two Massachusetts Towns Welcome Guantánamo Detainee Ordered Released by a Federal Judge
May 14, 2010, CTV (Canada), Media outlets fight for access to Khadr hearings
May 14, 2010, Adam Serwer, American Prospect, Still Abusing Detainees At Bagram
May 14, 2010, Marjorie Cohn, Huffington Post, Kagan's Troubling Record
May 14, 2010, Maggie Shiels, BBC News, Facebook downplays privacy crisis meeting
May 14, 2010, Sam Stein, Huffington Post, Janet Napolitano Urged To Cut Homeland Security Department Ties With Arizona Law Enforcement
May 14, 2010, Paul Davenport, Associated Content, Ariz. gov wants panel to combat 'mistruths' on law
May 13, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, New target of rights erosions: U.S. citizens
May 13, 2010, Andy Worthington, Common Dreams, The Torture of Omar Khadr, a Child in Bagram and Guantánamo
May 13, 2010, Rabia Chaudry, Common Dreams, The Terrorist Expatriation Act: Joe Lieberman's Lawless New Law
May 13, 2010, Center for Constitutional Rights, Obama Administration Sides with Bush DOJ, Asks Supreme Court to Keep Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar from His Day in Court
May 13, 2010, Democracy Now!, Spanish Prosecutor Seeks Arrest of 13 CIA Agents in Rendition Case
May 13, 2010, Julian Sanchez, Cato at Liberty, The Wall Street Journal’s Surveillance Fantasies
May 12, 2010, Dawinder Sidhu, Salon, Why Arizona's immigration law should concern all minorities
May 12, 2010, Editorial, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miranda works as it is
May 12, 2010, Editorial, St. Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch, Threats to strip citizenship are un-American
May 12, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Continuing the Kagan debate with Larry Lessig
May 12, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Human Rights Coalition Protests Banning of Four Reporters From GTMO
May 12, 2010, Nathan Hodge, Wired, Military Expanding 'Obama's Gitmo in Afghanistan'
May 12, 2010, Mariam Abu-Ali, AlterNet, My Brother Faces a Lifetime of Solitary Confinement on a Spurious Terror Conviction
May 12, 2010, Adam Serwer, American Prospect, Bond: Shahzad-TTP Link Not Definite.
May 12, 2010, Andy Worthington, Public Record, Judge Denies Habeas Petition Of An Ill And Abused Libyan Detained At Guantanamo
May 12, 2010, Nick Baumann, Mother Jones, Watchdog Sues Over John Yoo Emails
May 12, 2010, Christina Hoag, Associated Press, LA approves Arizona boycott over immigration law
May 12, 2010, Jason Leopold, TruthOut, EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW: Ex-CIA Official Reveals New Details About Torture, Plame Leak
May 12, 2010, Common Dreams, Real Border Sheriffs Get It: Best Way to Secure the Border Is Comprehensive Immigration Reform
May 11, 2010, Marcy Wheeler, Emptywheel, Judge Rules Torture Doesn’t Violate Due Process
May 11, 2010, Erwin Chemerinsky, Los Angeles Times, Even terrorism suspects have rights
May 11, 2010, Daylin Leach, Patriot-News (PA), Racial profiling isn't answer to America's immigration problems
May 11, 2010, Max Fisher, The Atlantic, What We Know About Now-Confirmed 'Black Site' Prison at Bagram
May 11, 2010, Mac McClelland, Mother Jones, 15-Year-Old Gitmo Detainee Threatened With Rape
May 11, 2010, E.D. Kain, True/Slant, Obama drops the ball on civil liberties with Elena Kagan
May 11, 2010, Julian Sanchez, Cato at Liberty, FISA Applications Are Down, but Is Surveillance?
May 11, 2010, National Public Radio, Covering A Terrorism Hearing At Guantanamo Bay
May 10, 2010, David Fontana, Politico, Kagan's record on executive privilege
May 10, 2010, Andy Worthington, TruthOut, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Consigning Soldiers to Oblivion
May 10, 2010, Tom Barry, TruthOut, Obama Right and Wrong About Arizona Law
May 10, 2010, Common Dreams, 9/11 Families Oppose Holder Proposal to Modify Miranda
May 10, 2010, Common Dreams, Constitution Project Troubled by Recent Proposals to Weaken Miranda Requirements
May 10, 2010, Jason Linkins, Huffington Post, ACLU Slams Eric Holder On Decision To Alter Miranda Protections
May 10, 2010, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Obama's natural choice of Kagan
May 10, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Justice Dept., CIA Decline Our FOIA Request About Killing U.S. Citizens
May 10, 2010, Jeffrey Cohen, AlterNet, Regardless of our stance on immigration, the SB1070 is unconstitutional
May 8, 2010, David Cole, Washington Post, Bill to expatriate those who support terrorists more symbol than substance
May 7, 2010, Common Dreams, On Immigration the NBA Has More Courage than the GOP
May 7, 2010, Common Dreams, Lieberman's Citizen-Stripping Bill "Unconstitutional"
May 7, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, GTMO Postscript: Prosecutor Goes After Defense, Press
May 7, 2010, TruthDig, Using Fingerprints to Track Immigration
May 7, 2010, Azadeh Shahshahani, Huffington Post, ICE's Misplaced Priorities: The Numbers Speak for Themselves and the Stories Cry out for Justice
May 7, 2010, Voice of America News, Pentagon Bans Four Reporters from Guantanamo Trials
May 7, 2010, Amnesty International, Huffington Post, Interrogator Admits Gitmo Detainee Khadr Threatened With Rape
May 6, 2010, Steve Vladeck, PrawfsBlawg, Why the Terrorist Expatriation Act is Unconstitutional: Early Thoughts
May 6, 2010, Reuters, Guantanamo suspect must submit to strip search
May 6, 2010, Carol Rose, Boston Globe, Times Square bombing attempt shows limits of surveillance
May 6, 2010, Ian Paul, PC World, Facebook Privacy Complaint: A Complete Breakdown
May 6, 2010, C. Dixon Osburn, The Seminal, The Monster & The Constitution
May 5, 2010, Jordan Fabian and Michael O'Brien, The Hill, Lieberman to roll out 'Terrorism Expatriation Act' Thursday
May 5, 2010, Mike Masnick, TechDirt, Does Storing Your Documents In 'The Cloud' Mean The Gov't Has Easier Access To It?
May 5, 2010, Robert Verkaik, The Independent (UK), MI5 told all evidence in torture trials will be heard in public
May 5, 2010, Christina Cowger, Clayton (NC) News-Star, Torture program scarred many people
May 5, 2010, G.W. Schulz, Center for Investigative Reporting, Austin City Hall hosts raucous debate over fusion center
May 5, 2010, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, Terrorism shouldn't change our values
May 5, 2010, Paul Koring, Globe and Mail (Canada), Interrogators had free hand to terrify detainees, Khadr hearing told
May 5, 2010, Daphne Eviatar, The Seminal, Congressional Sparring Ignores Practical Reasons For Miranda
May 4, 2010, Jeremy Scahill, The Nation, Were US Special Forces Involved in the Arrest of Faisal Shahzad?
May 4, 2010, Peter Baker, New York Times, A Renewed Debate Over Suspect Rights
May 4, 2010, Joby Warrick, Peter Finn, and Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, Times Square bombing attempt reveals limits of video surveillance
May 4, 2010, Andy Worthington, AlterNet, Obama's Tragic Guantanamo Legacy: Prosecuting a Child Soldier and Victim of U.S. Torture
May 4, 2010, Associated Press, UK court rules bars secret evidence in Gitmo suit
May 4, 2010, Shannon Wolfson, KXAN-TV (Austin, TX), Heated opposition to new fusion center
May 4, 2010, Jane Sutton and Cynthia Osterman, Reuters, U.S. sends two from Guantanamo to Spain, Bulgaria
May 3, 2010, Fran Quigley, Indianapolis (IN) Star, Johnsen, Constitution Both Denied Role in Obama Administration
May 3, 2010, Emptywheel, John Yoo: Stupid Political Hack AND Craven Addington Disciple
May 3, 2010, Jane Sutton, Reuters, U.S. chained wounded Canadian teen to door: medic
May 3, 2010, Press TV, Torture cases question UK democracy
May 3, 2010, Michelle Chen, TruthOut, Report: Immigration Laws Put Five Million Children at Risk of Family Separation
May 3, 2010, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, NCIS Agent Says Omar Khadr Recounted Being Threatened With Torture
May 3, 2010, Kevin Charles Redmon, The Atlantic, The New Abu Ghraib
May 2, 2010, Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic, "A Court Stenographer For War Criminals"
May 2, 2010, Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times, Both sides in Arizona's immigration debate use crime argument
May 1, 2010, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Changes to key Guantanamo evidence innocent, officer says