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  • World Tribunal on Iraq : Final Declaration of the Jury of Conscience
    1 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WORLD TRIBUNAL ON IRAQ � ISTANBUL 23RD -27TH JUNE 2005
    27th June 2005, Istanbul
    In February 2003, weeks before an illegal war was initiated against Iraq, millions of people protested in the streets of the world. That call went unheeded. No international institution had the courage or conscience to stand up to the threat of aggression of the US and UK governments. No one could stop them. It is two years later now. Iraq has been invaded, occupied, and devastated. The attack on Iraq is an (…)

  • Judge Orders FBI to Tell How They Spy on Americans
    1 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A federal judge in Portland ruled Thursday that Brandon Mayfield’s high-profile challenge to the USA Patriot Act can go forward.
    In a 48-page rejection of the Justice Department’s motion for dismissal, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken also ordered the FBI to open up files showing how agents secretly spied on Mayfield and his family.
    Federal law enforcement officials had released some details of the so-called sneak and peak searches of the family’s home in the spring of 2004.
    However, (…)

  • Senate Approves Bill Protecting Gun Businesses
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senate Approves Bill Protecting Gun Businesses
    By CARL HULSE
    WASHINGTON, July 29 - The Senate agreed to shield gun manufacturers and dealers from liability lawsuits on Friday, as Congress broke for a monthlong recess after sending President Bush energy and transportation bills that had been years in the making.
    Long sought by the gun lobby, the Senate measure - approved 65 to 31 - would prohibit lawsuits against gun makers and distributors for misuse of their products during the (…)

  • Federal Judge Says Patriot Act Too Vague
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Federal Judge Says Patriot Act Too Vague
    By LINDA DEUTSCH
    LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ruled that some provisions of the U.S. Patriot Act dealing with foreign terrorist organizations remain too vague to be understood by a person of average intelligence and are therefore unconstitutional.
    U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins found that Congress failed to remedy all the problems she defined in a 2004 ruling that struck down key provisions of the act. Her decision was handed down (…)

  • Judge’s Reagan-Era Work Criticized
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Judge’s Reagan-Era Work Criticized
    Papers Show Roberts’s Conservatism, Liberal Activists Say
    By Michael A. Fletcher
    After sitting mostly silent for more than a week after the Supreme Court nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr., liberal activist groups and their allies in the Senate yesterday expressed growing concern about the conservative positions Roberts advocated while working as a young Justice Department lawyer in the Reagan administration.
    Memos and other documents from (…)

  • SAUDI AND NIGERIA IN THE CROSSHAIRS
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Human Rights Watch is calling on Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to pardon three jailed advocates of peaceful reform and urging President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria to “show the world that he is serious about pursuing justice,” and “ensure that police torturers are held accountable for their crimes.”
    In Saudi Arabia, an appellate court in Riyadh upheld harsh prison terms of between six and nine years for the three after they attempted to circulate a petition calling (…)

  • Habeas Legislation is Unconstitutional, Should be Rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee
    29 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee today has begun to consider legislation that would strip federal courts of their jurisdiction and take away defendant’s safeguards against being wrongfully convicted and even executed. The committee will continue to consider this legislation after the August recess. The American Civil Liberties Union opposes this bill, saying it unconstitutionally violates the doctrine of Separation of Powers and threatens the independence of the federal judiciary. (…)

  • Derail Scandal Train
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Rove Scandal Train is picking up momentum. Just ask Scottie McClellan, who is starting to look more and more like Ron Ziegler with every passing press briefing.
    Actually, two separate Rove trains have left the station (and, no, this isn’t going to be one of those old algebra problems they used to give us): the legal train and the political train - heading along two very separate tracks.
    But it’s now clear that the White House damage-control team has decided to try to link the two. (…)

  • Gonzales Says He Told Card About CIA Probe
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Summary:
    Attorney General and former White House counsel Alberto Gonzales has admitted that he told White House chief of staff Andrew Card about the impending Justice Department investigation into the Valerie Plame leak a full 12 hours before he directed his staff to secure any materials related to the case. This introduces the very plausible scenario of Card informing Karl Rove and others ahead of time, giving them the opportunity to “prepare” for the investigation.
    White House does not (…)

  • At the GOP School for Scandal, Monica trumps Rove
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    You hear it at least once a week: The plaintive moan of a fellow American befuddled by our nation’s odd sense of priorities. It comes out this way: “I can’t believe they tried to impeach Clinton for Monica and yet this gets nothing!”
    “This” being, among other things, the WMDs, the Iraq invasion, 25,000 Iraqi civilians dead, Halliburton’s theft of American tax dollars, Bush family connections to Saudis or cartels, the plundering of the environment, armor and supplies for fighting (…)