I will be traveling for the next 3 weeks, so the website won’t be updated as regularly. Â Please write to Dr. Dhafir and let him know he is not forgotten and that his humanitarian work is very much appreciated. Â See my latest article on the case. Â Katherine
February 2012
Tue 21 Feb 2012
Mon 20 Feb 2012
Muslim Students Across Northeast Monitored by NYPD
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , DemocracyNo Comments
The Associated Press published an investigative report Sunday that details how the New York Police Department spied on Muslim students at colleges all across the northeast, even as far as Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. (more…)
Fri 17 Feb 2012
Jason Leopold Truthout
Over the past year, I’ve filed dozens of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the FBI, CIA, Department of Defense, and other government agencies in hopes of prying loose documents I need to support my investigative reporting efforts on a wide-range of issues and policies. (more…)
Fri 17 Feb 2012
It’s time we recognised the Blair government’s criminality
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , Democracy , Globalization/EmpireNo Comments
John Pilger JohnPilger.com
In the kabuki theatre of British parliamentary politics, great crimes do not happen and criminals go free. It is theatre after all; the pirouettes matter, not actions taken at remove in distance and culture from their consequences. (more…)
Thu 16 Feb 2012
A First-Hand Replection On Domestic Torture In A Time Of Terror
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , DemocracyNo Comments
I am a pretrial federal inmate housed in solitary confinement and in conditions that best resemble those of Guantanamo Bay. (more…)
Thu 16 Feb 2012
FBI Purges Hundreds of Terrorism Documents in Islamophobia Probe
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Spencer Ackerman Wired.com
An internal FBI investigation into its counterterrorism training has purged hundreds of bureau documents of instructional material about Muslims, some of which characterized them as prone to violence or terrorism. (more…)
Thu 16 Feb 2012
A Brewing Battle Over Warrantless Wiretapping
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Jameel Jaffer
One of the hardest-fought civil liberties battles of the George W. Bush era involved the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the post-Watergate statute that was meant to rein in domestic surveillance undertaken in the name of national security. It’s almost certain that we’ll have an equally hard-fought battle over FISA this year, both in the courts and in Congress. (more…)
Wed 15 Feb 2012
PLEASE DONATE TO DR. RAFIL DHAFIR’S APPEAL FUND
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , Site AnnouncementsNo Comments
On Friday, February 3rd 2012, Judge Norman Mordue resentenced Dr. Rafil Dhafir to 22 years in prison in large part because he is unrepentant about sending food and medicine to starving Iraqi civilians in violation of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA). So that the burden of continuing legal costs does not fall solely on Dr. Dhafir’s family, we are hoping to find 100 people willing to contribute between $35 and $100 dollars each to his appeal fund. (more…)