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RESTORING THE CONSTITUTION ACT OF 2007 (DODD'S BILL RESTORING RIGHTS THAT OBAMA IS A COSPONSOR OF)
Post Date: 2008-04-25 10:15:54 by aristeides
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BILL TEXT S 576 VERSION: INTRODUCED IN SENATE Feb. 13, 2007 110th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 576 To provide for the effective prosecution of terrorists and guarantee due process rights. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES FEBRUARY 13, 2007 Mr. DODD (for himself, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. FEINGOLD, and Mr. MENENDEZ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To provide for the effective prosecution of terrorists and guarantee due process rights. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the “Restoring ...
Evidence that Drugs Were Used on CIA "Ghost Detainees" During Coercive Interrogations - The Return of MKULTRA?
Post Date: 2008-04-25 02:12:27 by robin
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Evidence that Drugs Were Used on CIA "Ghost Detainees" During Coercive InterrogationsThe Return of MKULTRA?By Tom BurghardtGlobal Research, April 24, 2008Antifascist Calling...In A Question of Torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy tracks the nightmarish world of the CIA's Project ARTICHOKE and its later metastasis, MKULTRA through two distinct, though overlapping phases:First, esoteric, often bizarre experiments with hypnosis and hallucinogenic drugs, from 1950 to 1956; then, more conventional research into human psychology until 1963 when the agency compiled the fruits of this costly investigation in a definitive interrogation manual. (Alfred W. McCoy, A Question of Torture: CIA ...
CIA admits they will continue rendition program, which allows torture overseas
Post Date: 2008-04-24 20:40:04 by richard9151
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Documents show they expected legal challenges from the start The Central Intelligence Agency knew from the beginning that its secret detention and torturous interrogation tactics probably bordered on illegal from the start, according to new documents identified through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. In a filing yesterday, the CIA said it had identified 7,000 pages of classified memos, emails and other records relating to President Bush's secret detention and interrogation program. Human rights groups quickly jumped on the filing -- which came after their own Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking information about those detained. The CIA also acknowledged in their filings ...
José Can You See? Bush's Trojan Taco
Post Date: 2008-04-24 12:03:53 by Jethro Tull
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José Can You See? Bush's Trojan Taco By Greg PalastMonday April 21, 2008 (for<http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/jos- can-you-see-bush-s-trojan-taco>TomPaine.com)Psst! George Bush has a secret. While you Democrats are pounding each other to a pulp in Pennsylvania, thePresident has snuck back down to New Orleans for a meeting of the NAFTAThree: the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Mexico.You're not supposed to know that – for two reasons: First, the summit planned for the N.O. two years back was meant to showcasethe rebuilt Big Easy, a monument to can-do Bush-o-nomics. Well, it is amonument to Bush's leadership: The city still looks like Dresden ...
Who Cares About Your DNA?
Post Date: 2008-04-24 10:15:49 by ghostdogtxn
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CIA Acknowledges it Has More Than 7000 Documents Relating to Secret Detention Program, Rendition, and Torture
Post Date: 2008-04-24 09:39:44 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Human Right Groups Charge Documents Reveal CIA Stonewalled Congressional Oversight Committees; CIA Says Many Documents too Sensitive to Release NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, April 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must stop stonewalling congressional oversight committees and release vital documents related to the program of secret detentions, renditions, and torture, three prominent human rights groups said today. Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Human Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law (NYU IHRC) reiterated their call for information, following the CIA's filing of a summary judgment ...
Bush's Gitmo Justice Creates a Legal Black Hole
Post Date: 2008-04-24 06:30:31 by Ada
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So will Congress call on Murat Kurnaz to testify? On July 18, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read to a joyous crowd in Boston as bells rang and cannons were discharged. Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John: "Every vestige of the King [George] was burnt. This ends royal Authority, a way of living, a way of thinking." Abigail didn't anticipate that another King George, presiding over America almost 250 years later, would have so expanded his authority that he could designate persons—including American citizens—as "enemy combatants" to be held in military prisons without due process. (Ironically, though, Abigail's husband John, during his ...
1st Amendment Ignored - We Are Change Arrested
Post Date: 2008-04-24 02:46:01 by noone222
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We Are Change Members Arrested For Asking Laura Bush A Question Police reportedly beat reporter's head against wall, another member charged for assault despite being victim of unprovoked attack Paul Joseph Watson / Prison Planet | April 23, 2008 Two members of We Are Change were arrested in New York last night for asking Laura and Jenna Bush a question. Reporter Matt Lepacek was dragged out during Laura Bush's speech and physically assaulted by police, according to Luke Rudkowski. News of the incidents has not been reported by the corporate media as of this morning. A We Are Change member named Gary reportedly refused to move from a sidewalk when asked by the Secret Service. ...
Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’
Post Date: 2008-04-23 16:49:35 by richard9151
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has badly stumbled in discussing the Bush administration’s push to create stricter identity systems. Chertoff was recently in Canada discussing, among other topics, the so-called “Server in the Sky” program to share fingerprint databases among the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Australia. In a recent briefing with Canadian press (which has yet to be picked up in the U.S.), Chertoff made the startling statement that fingerprints are “not particularly private”: QUESTION: Some are raising that the privacy aspects of this thing, you know, sharing of that kind of data, very personal data, among four ...
Supreme Court says police may search even if arrest invalid
Post Date: 2008-04-23 16:16:41 by farmfriend
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Supreme Court says police may search even if arrest invalid By PETE YOST - Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court affirmed Wednesday that police have the power to conduct searches and seize evidence, even when done during an arrest that turns out to have violated state law. The unanimous decision comes in a case from Portsmouth, Va., where city detectives seized crack cocaine from a motorist after arresting him for a traffic ticket offense. David Lee Moore was pulled over for driving on a suspended license. The violation is a minor crime in Virginia and calls for police to issue a court summons and let the driver go. Instead, city detectives arrested Moore and ...
Fourth Amendment is No Moore
Post Date: 2008-04-23 15:08:41 by ghostdogtxn
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Raid on Texas Religious Community Part of New World Order Psyops?
Post Date: 2008-04-23 13:33:31 by Original_Intent
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Raid on Texas Religious Community Part of New World Order Psyops? April 22, 2008 The recent ‘raid’ on the Yearning For Zion religious community by Texas authorities was anything but an accident that just happened to ‘pop up’ out of nowhere. Likewise, the 24-7 attention paid to it by the mainstream media in the US had nothing to do with concern for the well-being of children, nor was it all the result of a slow news cycle. Rather, like most things taking place these days, it was carefully planned and executed in order to achieve maximum psychological effect on the collective American psyche. Astute Americans recognizing that there is a definite, quantifiable and ...
The Indivisibility of Liberty
Post Date: 2008-04-23 09:41:50 by ghostdogtxn
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Bush has a sneering contempt for the law
Post Date: 2008-04-22 19:26:58 by richard9151
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He says that on his say so alone he can identify anyone in the United States as creating a "significant risk of undermining reconstruction program in Iraq, or political reform by creating a risk that an act of violence might be committed." And when he identifies you, he doesn't inform you. But you are instantly subjected to a financial death penalty. All your assets are frozen; no one then can do any business with you. A Must Watch - Video Discussion - Chairman of the American freedom agenda Bruce Fein and former United States Congressman Bob Barr VIDEO HERE: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19783.htm Click for Full Text!
Amnesty International Running Anti-waterboarding ad
Post Date: 2008-04-22 16:29:22 by ghostdogtxn
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End the Travel Ban to Cuba
Post Date: 2008-04-22 10:22:03 by ghostdogtxn
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No Country for Free Men
Post Date: 2008-04-22 06:43:57 by Ada
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I picked up my local paper this Sunday only to find a half-dozen "background" articles on the polygamists who have recently been shown what Texas-style hospitality looks like. I was treated to various articles on the history of the group's leaders and their persecution by state officials in Arizona, Colorado and now finally, Texas. Of course, it wasn't called persecution. The raid was said to be an act of kindness for young women who are forced to marry against their will. These evil, evil, men, women and children are refusing to bow down to the state and conform to societal norms so they must be punished, apparently. The raid, executed by machine gun-toting, tank-driving ...
A Crack in the Shield of Immunity for Prosecutors?
Post Date: 2008-04-22 06:33:30 by Ada
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I read in the LA Times that the United States Supreme Court will take up a case to decide if a former Los Angeles County District Attorney can be sued for his part in a man's wrongful conviction. The case involves former Marine Tom Goldstein who spent 24 years in prison on a murder conviction that was primarily based upon the testimony of a jailhouse snitch. The prosecution had no fingerprints, forensic evidence, or weapon. They did have the testimony of an informant who was a pro and who had a long history that should have been known by the defense at trial – but it was not known by the defense, since the prosecution did not disclose that information. If the defense had known ...
Which came first: memos or torture?
Post Date: 2008-04-22 05:51:01 by Ada
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John Yoo's legal opinions and questions about culpability and timing. John C. Yoo likes the limelight, but it's causing him some grief. Of the half a dozen lawyers who played important roles in a Bush administration decision to legalize the use of highly coercive interrogation techniques, only Yoo has emerged as the public face -- and target -- related to the policy. In 2002 and 2003, Yoo was second in command at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel and wrote two memos, one for Alberto R. Gonzales and one for the Pentagon, that provided broad legal authority for the use of extreme measures in the questioning of wartime detainees. In one famous phrase, the memo to ...
The Orchestrated Bankrupting of America
Post Date: 2008-04-22 04:27:08 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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The Orchestrated Bankrupting of America Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers
Gov's giving to remap measure tops $1 million
Post Date: 2008-04-21 15:46:57 by farmfriend
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Gov's giving to remap measure tops $1 million Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has reported contributing another $700,000 to help qualify a redistricting measure for the November ballot, bringing his total giving to the measure to $1.26 million. Schwarzenegger is the largest donor to the campaign so far, which has amassed $2.14 million, largely tapping the Republican governor's own donor network. The measure, sponsored by California Common Cause, would eliminate state lawmakers' power to draw legislative and Board of Equalization districts. A 14-member “citizens” panel, composed of five Democrats, five Republicans and four declined-to-state members would be charged with ...
Whitewater police pursue anonymous blogger
Post Date: 2008-04-20 20:22:31 by PSUSA
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WHITEWATER, Wis. — It's a mystery that has gripped Whitewater city government since July: Who is John Adams, the anonymous blogger at www.freewhitewater.com? The Web site, Free Whitewater, was launched last spring and takes aim at the "narrow-minded" leaders of the community of 14,000 about 45 miles southeast of Madison. Its targets range from the aesthetics of Whitewater's main streets to a controversial roundup of suspected illegal immigrants at the Star Packaging plant. "Adams" charges in his blog that Whitewater is run by "a small, obstinate, and poorly educated local elite" who are hostile toward the 10,000 students at UW-Whitewater and the ...
Obama linked to gun control efforts
Post Date: 2008-04-20 15:53:07 by Peppa
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Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has worked to assure uneasy gun owners that he believes the Constitution protects their rights and that he doesn’t want to take away their guns. But before he became a national political figure, he sat on the board of a Chicago-based foundation that doled out at least nine grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to groups that advocated the opposite positions. The foundation funded legal scholarship advancing the theory that the Second Amendment does not protect individual gun owners’ rights, as well as two groups that advocated handgun bans. And it paid to support a book called “Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning ...
Taliban Urges U.N. to Block Afghan Executions
Post Date: 2008-04-20 14:08:27 by Ada
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KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents urged the international community and right groups to stop Afghan President Hamid Karzai approving the execution of about 100 prisoners whose death sentences were approved by the supreme court. The Taliban, fighting to overthrow the pro-Western Afghan government, have executed dozens of captured troops and civilians since U.S.-led and Afghan forces ousted the Islamist movement in 2001. The Taliban also executed dozens of criminals, often in public, while they were in power from 1996 till 2001. Human Rights Watch said on Thursday Karzai should refuse to confirm the death penalties of about 100 convicted prisoners because of concerns they had not ...
Washington ... "You're friggin fired"
Post Date: 2008-04-20 10:37:25 by noone222
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