One day after President Obama trumpeted the achievements and freedoms of Muslim Americans in his celebrated Cairo speech, we look at the case of Syed Fahad Hashmi, a US citizen who has been held in pretrial twenty-three-hour solitary confinement in a Manhattan federal prison for over two years:Â Democracy Now!
June 2009
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By CATHERINE CALLEN Albany Times Union 6/03/09
Dear President Obama,
You are breaking my heart. (more…)
Mon 1 Jun 2009
Eavesdropping Case Tests Obama Vows on Secrecy
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By William Fisher Inter Press Service News Agency 6/01/09
Despite President Barack Obama’s formation of a new task force to review government secrecy, and an ongoing investigation into use of the so-called “state secrets doctrine”, lawyers for the new administration refused last week to disclose information on the government’s use of warrantless wiretaps and backed legislation to block the release of photos of prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan. (more…)
Mon 1 Jun 2009
Obama’s support for the new Graham-Lieberman secrecy law
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Glenn Greenwald Salon 6/01/09
It was one thing when President Obama reversed himself last month by announcing that he would appeal the Second Circuit’s ruling that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) compelled disclosure of various photographs of detainee abuse sought by the ACLU. (more…)