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  • Miers expected to be president’s terror ally
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Caroline Daniel and Patti Waldmeir
    US social conservatives have one big objection to Harriet Miers, President George W. Bush’s beleaguerednominee to the Supreme Court:they cannot trust her to shift America’s highest court to the right on the issue of abortion.
    But when it comes to defending the power of the president to wage the war on terror - even if that means making unpopular choices about the civil liberties of Americans and foreigners alike - conservatives think Ms Miers will be (…)

  • German court declares Iraq war violated international law
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Just a few weeks ago, a highly significant judicial decision was handed down by the German Federal Administrative Court but barely mentioned in the German media. With careful reasoning, the judges ruled that the assault launched by the United States and its allies against Iraq was a clear war of aggression that violated international law.
    Further, they meticulously demonstrated that the German government, in contrast to its public protestations, had assisted in the aggression against Iraq (…)

  • Catch-22 at the New York Times
    15 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s put up or shut up time at the paper of record.
    Now that Judge Hogan has lifted Judy Miller’s contempt citation, there is no reason for the Times to hold back on its promised full accounting of the Miller story.
    Rarely has so much been riding on a single article.
    Especially internally. The frustration I’ve been reporting on since July has now spilled into the MSM with "nearly a dozen Times staffers" venting to Howard Kurtz. The Times newsroom is a powder keg ready to blow.
    But (…)

  • G8 summit police lied, says report
    15 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Chris Summers
    The trial of 28 police officers accused of beating up anti-globalisation protesters during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 is due to start on Friday. The BBC News website has seen a copy of the prosecutor’s report.
    The chief prosecutor investigating an Italian police raid on an anti-globalisation protesters’ base in Genoa during the 2001 G8 summit concluded "the police must have lied" about the operation, according to a leaked copy of his report.
    Ninety-two (…)

  • Brutality trials start for top Italian police
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    · G8 protesters claim they were gassed and beaten · New laws could render convictions meaningless
    in Rome
    Seventy-five people, including some of Italy’s most senior police officers, go on trial in the next two days, accused of taking part in an orgy of brutality against protesters during and after the demonstrations at the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa.
    Court papers seen by the Guardian show that one police witness gave a written statement describing his colleagues "beating young people (…)

  • Trial forces Italy to relive shocking police brutality
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Peter Popham in Rome
    Italy is about relive two of its most shocking episodes of alleged police brutality as the trial of officers accused of illegal behaviour over attacks on anti- globalisation protesters proceed in Genoa.
    The attacks occurred as the G8 summit of July 2001 in the port city was winding down after days of peaceful mass demonstrations by 200,000 people from all over the world, and violently anarchic protests by a small group known as the Black Block.
    Today the trial (…)

  • Italy G8 ’brutality’ trial opens
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    See footage of the violent clashes between protestors and police
    Forty-five Italian police and medical staff have gone on trial accused of brutality against protesters arrested during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001.
    The case, which opened at a court in Genoa, was adjourned until November.
    The defendants - which include senior officers from Genoa - deny the charges, including unlawful violence.
    On Friday, in a related case, 28 officers are due appear in court over a raid at a school (…)

  • RUMOR: 22 Indictments in Plame Case — Rove is a Target
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Edwards
    The D.C. Rumor mill is thrumming with whispers that 22 indictments are about to be handed down on the outed-CIA agent Valerie Plame case. The last time the wires buzzed this loud - that Tom DeLay would be indicted and would step down from his leadership post in the House - the scuttlebutters got it right.
    Can it be a coincidence that the White House appears to be distancing President Bush from embattled aide Karl Rove? “He’s been missing in action at more than one major (…)

  • RIAA sued by victim
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RIAA sued by victim
    By Nick Farrell: Monday 03 October 2005, 06:21
    A WOMAN who was sued by the Recording Industry of America for file-sharing has countersued the outfit for hacking. Tanya Andersen, a 41-year old disabled single mother living in Oregon, has countersued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation. She is claiming hurt feelings and (…)

  • Harriet Miers: Bush’s Pit Bull
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Marjorie Cohn
    Bush has nominated his Texas crony as a stealth appointment to the Supreme Court. Although the Senate will be hard-pressed to discover Harriet Miers’s positions on the critical issues, she does have a long record of loyalty to Bush, whom she calls "the most brilliant man I ever met." Bush undoubtedly knows where she stands - and it doesn’t appear to be on the side of civil liberties.
    Miers represented a string of large corporations, including Walt Disney Co., (…)