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American Voices Don’t Get Louder on Torture and Detention. How About Your Voice?
On January 11, 2008, Amnesty International USA executive director Larry Cox made the following declaration to a group of 250 people assembled to protest torture and indefinite detention carried out by...
View ArticleMadeline Albright Rolls Out the "Support the President" Call. To Arms? No, to...
Last night on the Rachel Maddow show, former Secretary of State Madeline Albright rolled out the “Support the President” call for a new administration: Senator Obama has spoken on all these issues,...
View ArticleObama Appointment Signals Unwillingness to Confront Surveillance and Torture
This week, news of an apparent appointment to the presidential cabinet of Barack Obama hit the streets. Sources are telling the Associated Press and Atlantic Monthly that John Brennan will likely be...
View ArticleIf You Can't Be Complicit in a System of Torture and be Promoted in the next...
Oh, the poor, poor dears: Mark M. Lowenthal, an intelligence veteran who left a senior post at the C.I.A. in 2005, said Mr. Obama’s decision to exclude Mr. Brennan from contention for the top job had...
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Barack Obama: Yes He Can Cover Up Torture
You’ve heard by now, if you’re paying attention, that the presidential administration of Barack Obama has pulled out the national security card to declare that a legal case brought on behalf of five...
View ArticleDrip, Drip. Two More Support Commission on Torture & Wiretaps
Representatives Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and Jim McDermott of Washington have added their support for H.R. 104, a bill to establish a National Commission on Presidential War Powers and Civil Liberties....
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Candidate Barack Obama vs. President Barack Obama on Guantanamo and the Rule...
Candidate Barack Obama, February 27 2008, Columbus Ohio: We will lead by having the highest standards, by setting an example of human rights and civil rights, due process and rule of law, which is why...
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