DhafirTrial

Adnan Latif suffered at the hands of the U.S. government in ways that most people can’t begin to comprehend (more…)

Eric W. Dolan Rawstory

During a question and answer session last week at University of New Hampshire School of Law, Souter described “pervasive civic ignorance” as one of the biggest problems in the United States. He warned that Americans’ ignorance about their own government could lead to a dictatorship. (more…)

Natalie O’Brien Sidney Morning Herald

Details of the mistreatment of the former Guantanamo Bay inmate were set to emerge publicly for the first time in the Australian government’s proceeds of crime action against him – until the government abandoned its case. (more…)

Baher Azmy NYTimes

BEFORE he died on Sept. 8, Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif had spent close to 4,000 days and nights in the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. (more…)

Eric Posner gives intellectual cover to the unitary executive

Philip Geraldi The American Conservative (more…)

Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL) should be commended for raising two issues near and dear to civil libertarians in the majority report on the Transportation Security Agency’s performance since 9/11, released Tuesday: the troublesome increase in intrusive security measures, i.e. “enhanced” pat-down searches, and the pervasive deployment of so-called full body scanners for the traveling public (more…)

Stephen C. Webster Rawstory

Less than 24 hours after a judge blocked a law that gives the government the power to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without trial, attorneys for the Obama administration were already filing an appeal. (more…)

RT

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reached a milestone in the development of their Next Generation Identification (NGI) program and is now implementing the intelligence database in unidentified locales across the country, New Scientist reports in an article this week. (more…)