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  • The case for closing Guantanamo is overwhelming
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    More than four years after the American detention camp at Guantanamo Bay opened, the range of voices calling for it to close is widening. Overseas, it runs from the Democrat former US President Jimmy Carter, through UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to the conservative Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Here, advocates of closure now include the Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith, the Northern Ireland (…)

  • Verizon Faces New $20 Billion Suit over NSA Spying Complicity
    25 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Upping the ante in what may be a high-stakes legal battle, an Upstate New York lawyer filed a $20 billion class-action lawsuit against Verizon last week, charging that the company violated customer confidentiality in aiding warrantless eavesdropping by a federal spy agency.
    The civil suit is the second to challenge corporations for helping the National Security Agency carry out a secret order by the president to spy on communications between people in the United States and parties overseas (…)

  • On or about August 7, 2000, $9,485 was wired from UAE into a Florida SunTrust bank account in th
    24 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    22. On or about July 19, 2000, $9,985 was wired from UAE into a Florida SunTrust bank account in the names of Mohammed Atta (#11) and Marwan al-Shehhi (#175). ORIGINAL LINK

  • Christmas Denier Gets Three Years Sentence (Satire)
    24 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "I may not agree with what a man says; but I will defend to the death, his right to say it.” - Voltaire
    Starchamber, TN Circuit Court House Feb. 24, 2006
    Yesterday, spectators in the court room broke out in cheers as Judge Pat Robinson announced his decision: "I find you guilty and sentence you to three years in prison for denying our Bible." The defendant, Joan Doubter, is known as a notorious Christmas denier. Her knees buckled when she heard her fate. Doubter had objected to (…)

  • WHY DOES MARY MATALIN DEFEND WAR CRIMINAL CHENEY ?
    21 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I know the the easy answer is "money". I believe that the monies generated from the Carville/Matalin " Mutt and Jeff" Show have accrued sufficent funds to provide for themselves and their sacred posterity -well into the 23 rd Century ! Cheney , apart from his hobby of getting liquored up and shooting friends at close range, is reknowned to be quite the nasty bastard. When Ronald Reagan deployed paramilitary death squads to Honduras ,El Salavador, or Nicauragua he did so (…)

  • Imagine, if you will... "extraordinary rendition"
    21 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Imagine, if you will — being in a flight from North Africa for 10+ hours, after spending a family vacation there.
    Imagine, if you will — being detained by U.S. Immigration and Naturalization officials at a U.S. airport while trying to a catch a connecting flight to Canada.
    Imagine, if you will, being interrogated by the U.S. officials for well over a week. You’re connecting flight is now a distant memory.
    Imagine, if you will, that those U.S. officials are convinced that you have (…)

  • FEDS CALL COURT CERTIFIED DOCUMENTS A "THEORY" IN BILL BENSON CASE
    21 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Posted: February 15, 2005 1:05 AM Eastern NewsWithViews.com
    Bill Benson is a former revenue collector for the State of Illinois. Back in 1984, Benson was commissioned to conduct an investigation into the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Benson traveled to all 48 states which had been admitted to the Union at the time of the ratification of this amendment in 1913. He spent close to a year in the bowels of these state archives collecting official documents. (…)

  • Judge’s anger at US torture
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Stinging comments come as America dismisses UN report on Guantánamo
    de Richard Norton-Taylor and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
    A high court judge yesterday delivered a stinging attack on America, saying its idea of what constituted torture was out of step with that of "most civilised nations".
    The criticism, directed at the Bush administration’s approach to human rights, was made by Mr Justice Collins during a hearing over the refusal by ministers to request the release of three (…)

  • Gonzales Won’t Step Aside in Abramoff Case
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
    WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales brushed aside requests on Thursday that he remove himself from the investigation of Jack Abramoff and the lobbyist’s ties to Bush administration officials and members of Congress Gonzales, who was White House counsel for four years before taking over at the Justice Department, said the inquiry is being run by career prosecutors who are not influenced by politics.
    Thirty-one Senate (…)

  • Judge Orders Surveillance Info Released by Bush Admin
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thursday, February 16, 2006 WASHINGTON - A federal judge ordered the Bush administration Thursday to release documents about its warrantless surveillance program or spell out what it is withholding, a setback to efforts to keep the program under wraps.
    At the same time, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said he had worked out an agreement with the White House to consider legislation and provide more information to Congress on the eavesdropping program. The (…)