Eight American Muslims from New Jersey have filed a federal lawsuit calling on the New York City Police Department to stop its surveillance and intelligence-gathering program that targets Muslim and Arab communities. (more…)
June 2012
Sat 9 Jun 2012
Muslim Group Files Landmark Suit Challenging NYPD Surveillance in Northeast
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Thu 7 Jun 2012
Rejects Obama Call to ‘Rconsider’ Decision
Judge Katherine Forest has upheld her previous ban on the use of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) provisions that allowed the president to summarily detain “terror suspects” in military custody for indefinite periods of time with no legal oversight. (more…)
Sun 3 Jun 2012
Sentence casts shame on U.S.
Steve Jacobs Columbia Daily Tribune
When I heard the judge sentence my friend Shakir Hamoodi to three years in prison, I remembered our first introduction (more…)
Sat 2 Jun 2012
Protest groups converge to denounce secretive Bilderberg conference
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Annual off-the-record finance gathering attracts protesters from disparate groups, but they often have a similar goal in mind (more…)
Fri 1 Jun 2012
First Rights: Coming: Even more FBI warrantless searches?
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Nat Hentoff
On May 9, FBI Director Robert Mueller strongly recommended that Congress reauthorize the 2008 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act by the end of the year. This law allows federal authorities, including the FBI, to conduct warrantless searches. (more…)
Fri 1 Jun 2012
Never Ending Prosecution and Vendetta
William Fisher
In a nationwide press conference in 2003, George W. Bush’s attorney general, the born-again John Ashcroft, trumpeted the arrest of Dr. Sami al-Arian, who he described as “the most dangerous man in the world.” (more…)