Fri 4 Jul 2008
Bob Egelko San Francisco Chronicle 7/03/08
A federal judge in San Francisco dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that sought to prove President Bush acted illegally in 2001 when he ordered the wiretapping of phone calls between Americans and suspected foreign terrorists without court approval. (more…)
Fri 4 Jul 2008
Carl Strock Daily Gazette, Schenectady 7/03/08
No surprise that the U.S. Court of Appeals turned down Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain, the two Albany Muslims convicted of supporting terrorism as the result of an FBI set-up. (more…)
Fri 4 Jul 2008
William Fisher The Huffington Post 7/04/08
Maher Arar, the poster boy for the U.S. Government’s program of “extraordinary rendition” has again been denied his day in court and Congressional efforts to rein in the Bush Administration’s widespread use of national security as a defense appear to be foundering. (more…)
Thu 3 Jul 2008
Public Has A Right To Unfiltered Information About The Human Cost Of War, ACLU Says
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NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today released thousands of pages of documents related to Navy investigations of civilians killed by Coalition Forces in Iraq (more…)
Wed 2 Jul 2008
Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain’s conviction was upheld by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Below is a statement from the Muslim Solidarity Committee, the community group formed 2 years ago to support Yassin Aref, Mohammed Hossain, and their families, regarding the Second Circuit’s decision of today: (more…)
Wed 2 Jul 2008
Israel’s treatment of an award-winning young Palestinian journalist is part of a terrible pattern
John Pilger The Guardian 7/02/08
Two weeks ago, I presented a young Palestinian, Mohammed Omer, with the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Awarded in memory of the great US war correspondent, the prize goes to journalists who expose establishment propaganda, or “official drivel”, as Gellhorn called it. (more…)
Tue 1 Jul 2008
NEW YORK - A United States appeals court decision upholding the dismissal of a lawsuit from Canadian Maher Arar essentially enables the U.S. government to send foreigners to be tortured, a lawyer with a human rights group representing Arar said Monday. (more…)
Tue 1 Jul 2008
New evidence shows that despite warnings from across the military, former Gen. Richard Myers shut down legal scrutiny of brutal interrogation tactics.
By Mark Benjamin Salon 6/30/08
WASHINGTON — The former Air Force general and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers, helped quash dissent from across the U.S. military as the Bush administration first set up a brutal interrogation regime for terrorism suspects, according to newly public documents and testimony from an ongoing Senate probe. (more…)