DhafirTrial

Karen J. Greenberg TomDispatch

By now, you’d think we’d be entering the end of the 9/11 era.  One war over in the Greater Middle East, another hurtling disastrously to its end, and the threat of al-Qaeda so diminished that it should hardly move the needle on the national worry meter.  (more…)

Wired

Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. (more…)

George Kilpatrick, of WCNY Channel 24, hosted a 30-minute interview that aired on October 26th, 2005, at 11 p.m., the night before Dr. Rafil Dhafir was sentenced to 22 years in prison (he had already been held for 31 months without bail). Dhafir’s crime was openly sending food and medicine to starving Iraqi civilians, through his charity Help the Needy for 13 years, in violation of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA). The panel included, Barrie Gewanter of CNYCLU, and court watchers Katherine Hughes and Julienne Oldfield.  See it here.

Der Spiegel

When it comes to America’s security, President Barack Obama has turned out to be just as ruthlessly determined as his predecessor — particularly when it comes to using drones to wage the war on terror. But the target of his recent legal repositioning might have much less to do with terrorists than with Iran.(more…)

Truthout

Marjorie Cohn — a law professor and past president of the National Lawyer’s Guild — has assembled a compelling interdisciplinary anthology on the “normalization” of torture as an extension of American foreign policy. (more…)

Telegraph U.K.

Imagine if there were a criminal court in Britain which only ever tried black people, which ignored crimes committed by whites and Asians and only took an interest in crimes committed by blacks. We would consider that racist, right? And yet there is an International Criminal Court which only ever tries black people (more…)

The Herald U.K.

Today The Herald exclusively publishes details of the report of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) showing why the conviction of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi for the Lockerbie bombing was referred for a second appeal.(more…)

AP

In the middle of Sunshine Week, when news organizations and advocacy groups promote government transparency, the Obama administration urged Congress on Tuesday to keep secret a whole new category of information even under the Freedom of Information Act. (more…)