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• Mulroney Contradicts MacKay

  
  liberal catnip — Authority: 129
  Ever since Peter MacKay has been under fire about allegations of torture in Afghanistan during the period of 2006-2007, he has repeatedly said in the house that the transfer agreement was changed once the government had credible evidence to back up those claims . From November 25, 2009, Hansard : Hon. Peter ...
  3 days ago

• Cats And Dogs Living Together, Mass Hysteria Etc.

  
  South Florida Lawyers — Authority: 477
  This NYT table-setter on several upcoming Supreme Court cases points out that conservative and liberals are coming together to condemn a criminal justice system in which all Americans are pretty much violating some law somewhere: “The problem of overcriminalization is truly one of those issues upon which a wide ...
  5 days ago

• Bush Campaign Veterans Make Electoral Comeback

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 747
  Tim Griffin, Barbara Comstock and Karl Rove (Tim Griffin for Congress, Comstock for Delegate, White House photo) For a candidate making his first bid for office, Tim Griffin couldn’t be in better shape. One week after announcing his campaign against Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.), the incumbent in Arkansas’s most ...
  5 days ago

• You Wanna Get High Man?

  
  The Vigilant Lens — Authority: 131
  Does Howdy Doody got wooden balls man?Thanks to Homeland Security, almost 316,000 bongs made in China of all places, will never see the light of a lighter.  I say almost 316,000, because you know some of the Customs humans took a few home.  GL-5 pay leaves very little room for bong purchases.American bong makers ...
  1 week ago

• Legal Defense Fund For Torture Memo Author

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 770
  One of the authors of the Bush Justice Departments notorious memos approving torture has set up a legal defense fund to help pay anticipated lawyers fees in connection with the episode. A website for the Bybee Legal Defense Fund "explains how contributions may be made to help Judge Jay S. Bybee pay costs and ...
  1 week ago

• Won’t You Help Jay Bybee Against Those Who Want to Hold Him Accountable for Torture?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 747
  Michael Isikoff reports : The federal judge who helped draft Justice Department memos on torture has set up a legal defense fund to pay the costs of defending against possible disciplinary or impeachment proceedings. Jay Bybee, a U.S. Court of Appeals judge in Las Vegas, quietly set up the fund last July following ...
  1 week ago

• Holder: OPR Torture Report Should Be Out By Months End

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 770
  That long-awaited report on the Justice Departments role in the Bush administrations torture program could finally be ready to see the light of day. During his testimony before Congress today, Attorney General Eric Holder said that the report, by the Justice Departments Office of Professional Responsibility, is ...
  1 week ago

• Holder Says OPR Report Will Be Released by the End of the Month

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Responding to a question from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who’s asked frequently when the Justice Department will finally release the repeatedly delayed report by the Office of Professional Responsibility on the conduct of lawyers at the Office of Legal Counsel under President Bush, Holder said that he ...
  1 week ago

• John Yoo on Civilian Trials for Terrorists

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 731
  Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an article by John Yoo that criticized the Obama administration’s decision to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) and several of his fellow Guantanamo prisoners in civilian court.  Yoo makes too many claims for me to respond to in a blog post, but let me address a ...
  1 week ago

• On whether KSM deserves Vengeance or Justice

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 742
  Elvin Lim is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency , which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents’ ability to communicate ...
  1 week ago

• President Obama Stops Dithering and Joins Osama Bin Laden against the US

  
  Valley of the Shadow — Authority: 463
  Are you shocked? Im not. I used to be the guy who followed the rules of engagement written by Tip ONeill. The Left stopped following Tips rules after December 12, 2000 . And look at these protests. The Left said it was OK during the last 8 years to compare American leaders to Nazis. I mentioned earlier about ...
  1 week ago

• "Whether a jury ultimately convicts KSM and his fellows, or sentences them to death, is beside the point."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 749
  "The treatment of the 9/11 attacks as a criminal matter rather than as an act of war will cripple American efforts to fight terrorism. It is in effect a declaration that this nation is no longer at war."
  1 week ago

• International Justice Group Takes Aim at Bush Officials

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  The International Center for Transitional Justice usually focuses on bringing to light and holding perpetrators accountable for such heinous crimes as genocide, mass murder and systematic torture, often in far-off war-torn countries with dismal human rights records. So it’s significant that today they’ve ...
  1 week ago

• A Trial Showing Torture Was Unnecessary

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 718
  I’m not amused that the Wall Street Journal solicited an op-ed attacking the decision to try KSM in civilian court from one of the people–John Yoo–with the biggest conflict on such a decision. It’s yet more proof that Rupert Murdoch is engaged in a partisan pursuit, even with the WSJ. But I am amused at the ...
  1 week ago

• On whether KSM deserves Vengeance or Justice

  
  Out on a Lim — Authority: 108
  There are four reasons which have been supplied to suggest that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) does not deserve a civilian trial in New York: 1. This is what KSM wants - a show trial, and he should not get what he desires. 2. The trial will increase the risks of a terorist attack in New York. 3. Classified information ...
  2 weeks ago

• RedState.com’s Erick Erickson’s Head Officially Explodes

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  Uhm, I remember seeing video of Osama bin Laden and several al-Qaeda spokesmen publicly stating after September 11 that the group wants to destroy everything America stands for. Well, it seems... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 weeks ago

• This Day in Infamy: Gitmo’s Birthday

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 704
  Feliz cumpleaños, Gitmo: Eight years ago Friday, former President George W. Bush signed what we now refer to as Military Order No. 1, thus paving the way for the creation of the Guantanamo Bay prison and for the creative adaptations of international justice codes that supported it.  —KA ProPublica: On Nov. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Happy Birthday, Gitmo

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 134
  An American guard walks along the exterior of a camp for Chinese Uighur detainees at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (John Moore/Getty Images) This story was reported by ProPublica’s Dafna Linzer Much has occurred today with regards to Guantanamo Bay and many decisions are yet to come . ...
  2 weeks ago

• When Im Calling Yoo

  
  SteveAudio — Authority: 420
  Yoos Lawyers Warn of Flood of Political Suits A ruling that allowed a prisoner to sue former Bush administration attorney John Yoo for devising the legal theories that justified his alleged torture threatens to "open the floodgates to politically motivated lawsuits" against government officials, Yoos lawyers say. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Torture Accountability Day of Action

  
  Justice Watch — Authority: 411
  Today, people from across the country are making calls to the Department of Justice . They are asking Attorney General Holder to release the report on the “torture memos” and authorize a full investigation of torture. We’ve already received feedback from supporters who have made calls and we will be posting ...
  2 weeks ago

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