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Aug 31, 2009, Jason Leopold, Public Record, How a Health Benefits Law Formed the Basis For the 'Torture Memo'

Aug 31, 2009, Stephanie Condon, CBS News, White House: Cheney Has His Facts Wrong

Aug 31, 2009, Paul Suarez, PC World, DHS Clarifies Laptop Border Crossing Rules: What You Need to Know

Aug 30, 2009, Leonard Pitts, Jr., Miami Herald, Luster is off Obama's `high moral ground'

Aug 30, 2009, Cahal Milmo, The Independent (UK), Binyam Mohamed: I will fight for other prisoners

Aug 30, 2009, Albor Ruiz, Daily News (NY), Police should be hands-off on immigration

Aug 30, 2009, Jason Leopold, Public Record, Cheney Says He May Not Cooperate With Torture Probe if Asked

Aug 29, 2009, Agence France-Presse, Two Guantanamo inmates freed in Portugal: official

Aug 29, 2009, Tom Burghardt, Dissident Voice, Obama Administration Seeks “Emergency Control” of the Internet

Aug 28, 2009, Associated Press, Tents + Tortillas + Tecate = Trouble: Feds

Aug 28, 2009, Meris Lutz, Los Angeles Times, Seven years after CIA abduction, prisoner still held without charge

Aug 28, 2009, Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, Bush's Search Policy For Travelers Is Kept

Aug 28, 2009, David Swanson, After Downing Street, Holder's Bad Applism and Our Own

Aug 28, 2009, Jason Leopold, TruthOut, US Interrogators Back Torture Probe

Aug 27, 2009, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Even More CIA Documents to Be Disclosed Monday

Aug 27, 2009, Joe Conason, TruthDig, Law, Not Torture, Protects National Security

Aug 27, 2009, RTT News, Release All Juvenile Detainees From Guantánamo: U.N. Envoy

Aug 27, 2009, Christopher Hayes, The Nation, The Secret Government

Aug 27, 2009, ACLU, International Tribunal Takes Up Case of Innocent Victim of CIA Extraordinary Rendition Program

Aug 27, 2009, Heidi Vogt, Associated Press, Young Afghan freed from Guantanamo to sue US gov't

Aug 27, 2009, Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent, Memos Suggest Legal Cherry-Picking in Justifying Torture

Aug 27, 2009, Ray McGovern, Common Dreams, Closing In on the Torturers

Aug 27, 2009, Jason Leopold, TruthOut, New Documents Describe in Extraordinary Detail Process of "Rendition," Torture

Aug 26, 2009, Josh Gerstein, Politico, Judge: lawyers must see secrets in spy suit

Aug 26, 2009, Shahid Buttar, Huffington Post, Losing Wars We Already Won (Part I): Torture vs. WWII

Aug 26, 2009, Carolyn Presutti, Voice of America News, CIA Interrogation Report Could Lead to Prosecution of Interrogators

Aug 26, 2009, ACLU, ACLU Seeks Records About Laptop Searches at the Border

Aug 26, 2009, Clara Gutteridge, Guardian (UK), Obama's rendition shame

Aug 26, 2009, Diana Sweet, Raw Story, Report reveals yet another unapproved CIA interrogation method: The hard takedown

Aug 25, 2009, Rob Gillies, Associated Press, Canada to appeal ruling on Guantanamo detainee

Aug 25, 2009, Editorial, New York Times, The Torture Papers

Aug 25, 2009, Matthew Cole and Brian Ross, ABC News, Deaths, Missing Detainees Still Blacked Out in New CIA Report

Aug 25, 2009, Joseph A. Palermo, Huffington Post, "We're Going to Kill Your Children": The CIA Inspector General's Report

Aug 25, 2009, Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters, No immunity in any CIA abuse cases - UN rights chief

Aug 25, 2009, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Thomas Paine v. the Right's torture defenders

Aug 25, 2009, John Nichols, The Nation, Holder -- and Obama -- Must Focus on Torture Accountability

Aug 24, 2009, David Cole, Sarah E. Mendelson, Vicki Divoll, Diane Marie Amann, and Benjamin Wittes, New York Times, Prosecuting the C.I.A.

Aug 24, 2009, Doug Bandow, Huffington Post, Investigate Top Officials, not Just CIA Interrogators

Aug 24, 2009, FOX23 News (Tulsa, OK), Government Information Gathering Concerns Groups

Aug 24, 2009, Associated Press, Guantánamo Detainee Released

Aug 24, 2009, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, What every American should be made to learn about the IG Torture Report

Aug 24, 2009, Siobhan Gorman and Evan Perez, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Names Prosecutor to Investigate CIA Abuse Cases

Aug 24, 2009, David Johnston, New York Times, Justice Dept. Report Advises Pursuing C.I.A. Abuse Cases

Aug 24, 2009, Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post, New Unit to Question Key Terror Suspects

Aug 24, 2009, Scott Shane and David Johnston, New York Times, Rendition of Terror Suspects Will Continue Under Obama

Aug 24, 2009, Steven R. Hurst, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CIA report: 'Inhumane' tactics used on detainees

Aug 22, 2009, Eric Schmitt, New York Times, U.S. Shifts, Giving Detainee Names to the Red Cross

Aug 21, 2009, Jake Tapper, ABC News, Obama Justice Department Continues to Assert "State Secrets" Argument in Muslim Charity Case

Aug 21, 2009, Ben Fox, Associated Press, Lawyers urge US to halt plans to send Guantanamo prisoner to Bosnia; fears transfer to Algeria

Aug 21, 2009, Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent, Obama Defies Federal Courts in Holding Yemeni Detainees

Aug 21, 2009, Jen Carlson, Gothamist, Homeland Security Arrests Shutterbug In Lower Manhattan

Aug 21, 2009, Brian Leiter, Kathleen Clark, Cary Nelson, Carlos Villareal, and Brad Wendel, New York Times, Torture and Academic Freedom

Aug 21, 2009, Khatchig Mouradian, Armenian Weekly, Exclusive Interview with FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds

Aug 21, 2009, ACLU, ACLU Calls On Government To Release CIA Torture Report With Minimal Redactions

Aug 20, 2009, ACLU, Dismissal Of ACLU Challenge To Unconstitutional Spying Law Jeopardizes Americans' Privacy

Aug 20, 2009, Richard Esguerra, Electronic Frontier Foundation, PASS ID: REAL ID Reanimated

Aug 20, 2009, Shahid Buttar, alt.muslim, Smoke and mirrors

Aug 20, 2009, Tom Bowman, Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, National Public Radio, U.S. Gen. Urges Release Of Bagram's Detainees

Aug 20, 2009, Felisa Cardona, Denver Post, Suit filed over mass arrest during DNC

Aug 20, 2009, ACLU, ACLU Sues for Memo on Constitutional Rights in Guantánamo Military Commissions

Aug 20, 2009, Amelia Mathias, Jurist, Federal judge limits use of hearsay evidence in Guantanamo cases

Aug 20, 2009, Peter Finn, Washington Post, Administration Makes Progress on Resettling Detainees

Aug 19, 2009, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Judge Faults Freezing of Assets in Terror Case

Aug 19, 2009, Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent, ACLU Sues Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Arrest and Detention of U.S. Citizen

Aug 19, 2009, News 8 Austin (TX), ACLU plans to ensure privacy with Fusion Center

Aug 19, 2009, Guénaël Mettraux, New York Times, A Nuremberg for Guantánamo

Aug 19, 2009, Joshua Posaner, Jurist, Lawsuit against UK government's terror suspect rendition may further embarrass Washington

Aug 19, 2009, Timothy Hodges, Clayton (NC) News-Star, Authorities ignore some homegrown conspiracies

Aug 19, 2009, Jenifer Reinhardt, OhMyGov!, Obama outpacing Bush on controversial 'signing statements'

Aug 19, 2009, CQPolitics, Senior Republicans Ask Attorney General Not To Probe Interrogations

Aug 18, 2009, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Source: White House has sent 6 Gitmo transfer notices to Congress

Aug 18, 2009, Steve Cauley, Examiner.com, 'Fusion Center' coming to a neighborhood near you

Aug 18, 2009, Terrence Chea, Associated Press, Protesters want UC Berkeley law professor fired

Aug 17, 2009, Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent, DHS Acknowledges 11 Unreported Deaths in Immigration Detention

Aug 17, 2009, Associated Press, White House to host immigration meeting

Aug 17, 2009, Joseph Straw, Security Management, Watchdog Investigates Civil Rights Complaints in Federal Prisons, Most from Muslims

Aug 17, 2009, Freedom Newspapers, Obama failing on transparency promise

Aug 17, 2009, Andy Worthington, Antiwar.com, Bagram: Gitmo All Over Again

Aug 17, 2009, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Judge rules Yemeni is held lawfully at Guantánamo

Aug 17, 2009, Josh Gerstein, Politico, Nadler warns Obama to lay off Holder on 'torture' probe

Aug 16, 2009, United Press International, Central Texas to get police intel center

Aug 15, 2009, Deepak Tripathi, Palestine Chronicle, Getting Away with Torture – Book Review

Aug 15, 2009, Frank Naif, Huffington Post, Bush National Security Leaders Silent While Junior Spies Could Face Torture Charges

Aug 14, 2009, Matthew Schofield, Kansas City (MO) Star, Why it's necessary to close Guantanamo

Aug 14, 2009, Marcy Wheeler, Salon, John Brennan's Dangerous National Security Advice

Aug 14, 2009, Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent, Portugal to Take Two Guantanamo Prisoners; United States, None

Aug 14, 2009, Editorial, San Francisco Chronicle, Promises Broken on Torture, Transparency

Aug 14, 2009, Ari Shapiro, National Public Radio, Is The Bagram Air Base The New Guantanamo?

Aug 14, 2009, Michel Comte, Agence France-Presse, Canadian Court Upholds Order to Repatriate Guantanamo Inmate

Aug 14, 2009, Andy Worthington, Public Record, Guantanamo in Belgium: Tunisians Face Extradition

Aug 13, 2009, David Colker, Los Angeles Times, Palm Pre Phone Secretly Used GPS to Report User's Location to Company

Aug 13, 2009, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Crooked Dusty Foggo Helped Set Up CIA Black Sites

Aug 13, 2009, ACLU, Common Dreams, DOD Refuses to Turn Over List of Bagram Detainee Information

Aug 13, 2009, David Johnston and Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, A Window Into C.I.A.'s Embrace of Secret Jails

Aug 13, 2009, Kim Zetter, Wired, Cheney: We Didn't Go Far Enough

Aug 12, 2009, Scott Shane, New York Times, 2 U.S. Architects of Harsh Tactics in 9/11's Wake

Aug 12, 2009, Daphne Eviatar, Salon, The Opposite of the Nuremberg Defense

Aug 12, 2009, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, On the Trail of Torture

Aug 12, 2009, Scott Horton, Guardian (UK), Obama's Torture Hangover

Aug 12, 2009, Daphne Eviatar, Salon, Attorney General Holder: Look at the Torture Photos

Aug 11, 2009, Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent, Whatever Happened to That New Justice Department Policy on 'State Secrets'?

Aug 11, 2009, Scott Horton, Huffington Post, Target Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture

Aug 10, 2009, Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian (UK), Government Officials Dismiss Fresh Calls for Torture Inquiry

Aug 10, 2009, William Maclean, Reuters, Gitmo Still Far from Geneva Conventions: Lawyer

Aug 10, 2009, Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent, Controversy Grows Over Obama Signing Statements

Aug 10, 2009, Jason Leopold, Public Record, Obama Promises Senators He Will Help Pass Bill Banning Torture Photos

Aug 10, 2009, ACLU, Common Dreams, Government Proposes Massive Shift in Online Privacy Policy

Aug 10, 2009, digby, Salon, Tortured Logic

Aug 10, 2009, Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, U.S. Battling CIA Rendition Case in 3 Courts

Aug 9, 2009, Jason Leopold, Public Record, Nadler Warns Holder Not to Limit Torture Probe to CIA Interrogators

Aug 9, 2009, Editorial, News Tribune, Fort Lewis Owes Public Answers

Aug 7, 2009, Sara Robinson, TruthOut, Is the US on the Brink of Fascism?

Aug 7, 2009, Jeremy Pelofsky, Reuters, US Moves Toward Releasing Young Guantanamo Detainee

Aug 7, 2009, Public Record, Public Record, Obama Admin. Asks High Court to Hear Torture Photo Case

Aug 7, 2009, Carla Seaquist, Seattle Times, U.S. Should Reset Moral Compass with a Torture Commission

Aug 7, 2009, ACLU, Common Dreams, Government Can't Continue To Silence Surveillance Letter Recipient With Secret Evidence

Aug 7, 2009, William Hopkins, Telegraph (UK), Doctors Who Assist in Torture Should Be Brought to Justice

Aug 7, 2009, Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Newspapers, Challenges to Prosecuting Guantanamo Detainees Not Insurmountable

Aug 6, 2009, Byron York, Washington DC Examiner, Obama's Dissident Database Could Be Secret -- and Permanent

Aug 6, 2009, William Fisher, Inter Press Service, Rights Groups Appeal For UN Investigation of Rendition

Aug 6, 2009, Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, Administration Announces Overhaul of Immigration Detention System

Aug 6, 2009, Nezua, Huffington Post, Weekly Immigration Wire: 287(g) Makes Hard Times Harder

Aug 6, 2009, Sahil Kapur, Huffington Post, Transparency Groups Urge Obama To Involve Public In Executive Order Revisions

Aug 6, 2009, Gene Johnson, Los Angeles Times, Army Investigates Fort Lewis Employee Who Infiltrated Olympia Antiwar Group

Aug 5, 2009, Jeffrey S. Kaye, TruthOut, Former Top Navy Psychologist Involved in Pre-9/11 Prisoner Abuse Case

Aug 5, 2009, Dan Kennedy, Guardian (UK), Turning the US army against Americans

Aug 5, 2009, Andrew Cohen, Los Angeles Times, The Gitmo NIMBYs

Aug 5, 2009, Editorial, New York Times, Justice Too Long Delayed

Aug 5, 2009, Elizabeth Goitein, Boston Globe, Abuse Revelations Demand an Inquiry

Aug 4, 2009, Jason Leopold, Public Record, Nadler Again Calls On Holder to Appoint Special Counsel to Probe Torture

Aug 4, 2009, Adam Liptak, New York Times, Obama Administration Weighs in on State Secrets, Raising Concern on the Left

Aug 4, 2009, Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent, Military Lawyer Claims U.S. Paid Gitmo Prosecution Witnesses

Aug 4, 2009, Julia Preston, New York Times, Firm Stance on Illegal Immigrants Remains Policy

Aug 4, 2009, Eddie Humfleet, Examiner.com, Gay Iraqi Refugees Accuse US Military of Capturing, Torturing and Executing Gay Iraqi Citizens

Aug 3, 2009, Stephen Lee, Examiner.com, CIA Director Panetta: Reform Suffers for Bush Apparatchiks and Spy Chiefs

Aug 3, 2009, Henry A. Giroux, TruthOut, Torturing Children: Bush's Legacy and Democracy's Failure

Aug 3, 2009, Josh Meyer and Julian E. Barnes, Los Angeles Times, U.S. Prison Plan for Guantanamo Inmates Under Review, Officials Say

Aug 3, 2009, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Tell DHS What You Think About Homeland Security

Aug 3, 2009, Andy Worthington, Huffington Post, Guantanamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave

Aug 2, 2009, William Yardley, New York Times, Army Looking Into Monitoring of Protest Groups

Aug 1, 2009, Melvin A. Goodman, Public Record, Panetta's Pathetic Attempt to Get Lawmakers to Ignore CIA Crimes