Bush's Secret Dictatorship
[Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate]voices.washingtonpost.com — : "We may not have realized it at the time, but in the period from late 2001-January 19, 2009, this country was a dictatorship. The constitutional rights we learned about in high school civics were suspended. That was thanks to secret memos crafted deep inside the Justice Department that effectively trashed the Constitution." (Submitted by graphictruth) More...
Obama Justice Dep. defends Rumsfeld in torture case
rawstory.com — In a brief filed Thursday evening, Obama Justice Department lawyers extended many of the same arguments made by Bush attorneys – that top government officials have qualified immunity from prosecution and that Guantanamo detainees do not have constitutional rights to due process. (Submitted by ChristPissed) More...
Justice Memos Gave Bush Total Power
consortiumnews.com — Lawyers for George W. Bush’s Justice Department asserted that the President had unlimited powers to prosecute the “war on terror” on American soil and could ignore constitutional rights, including First Amendment freedoms of speech and the press and Fourth Amendment requirements for search warrants, according to nine secret memos just released. (Submitted by populist) More...
Obama Justice Dep. defends Rumsfeld in torture case
rawstory.com — In a brief filed Thursday evening, Obama Justice Department lawyers extended many of the same arguments made by Bush attorneys – that top government officials have qualified immunity from prosecution and that Guantanamo detainees do not have constitutional rights to due process. (Submitted by plf0414) More...
Obama Denies Rights for Bagram Inmates
news.bbc.co.uk — Detainees held at Bagram Base in Afghanistan can't use US courts to challenge detention, the US says. The justice department ruled that 600 'enemy combatants' at Bagram have no constitutional rights -- no rights in Afghanistan, none in the eyes of the US -- thus no rights of any kind, according to Obama. Conditions at Bagram are worse than Gitmo. (Submitted by ItIsNow) More...
WSJ: New Rift Opens Over Rights of Detainees
online.wsj.com — The Justice Department has determined that detainees tried by military commissions in the U.S. can claim at least some constitutional rights, particularly protection against the use of statements taken through coercive interrogations, officials said. (Submitted by SethStuck) More...
Obama backs Bush: No rights for Bagram prisoners
salon.com — The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights. In a two-sentence court filing, the Justice Department said it agreed that detainees at Bagram Airfield cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detention (Submitted by dianevmc) More...
Obama Administration Affirms Bush Policy on Detainee Rights
foxnews.com — President Barack Obama's Justice Department sided with the former Bush administration on Friday, saying detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights. In a two-sentence court filing, department lawyers said the Obama administration agreed that detainees at Bagram Air Base cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detentions. The filing (Submitted by LafayetteAve) More...
Legal Scholars, Rights Groups Condemn Obama's Detainee Polic
pubrecord.org — Human rights activists and Constitutional law experts were virtually unanimous in their condemnation of the positions taken on prisoner detention and treatment in Federal Court last week by President Barack Obama’s Department of Justice, which one group described as “a case of old wine in new bottles.” (Submitted by jleopold) More...
Center for Constitutional Rights Attorney on Michael Mukasey
democracynow.org — Shayana Kadidal discusses Mukasey's role in the trial of Jose Padilla, his view on presidential power and the significance of the news that that the Justice Department under former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales secretly issued legal opinions that reportedly authorize methods including head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures. (Submitted by leunghoi) More...
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