From UPI, Nov. 14, links added: WASHINGTON — A Pentagon spokesman dismissed as “frivolous” a lawsuit alleging war crimes filed in Germany Tuesday against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The criminal complaint was filed on behalf of 11 former prisoners at… Read moreWar crimes charges filed against Rumsfeld
For all of the lurid propaganda about Islamo-fascism, you’d think these guys would at least know a little about Islam… From the Nov. 2 editorial page of the conservative Washington Times, link added: What they don’t know is frightening How… Read moreGWOT policy makers don’t know Sunni from Shi’ite
From AP, Nov. 7: ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal public defender who took on some of the nation’s most high-profile terrorism cases after Nine-Eleven has died at age 64. Frank Dunham Junior died Friday of brain cancer at his northern… Read moreFrank Dunham, terror war public defender, dead at 64
Here we go again. Fox News has the following to say about their upcoming “documentary,” Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West, to air this weekend (strategically just before the mid-term elections, if that escaped your notice): We see in… Read moreFox News: Islamism worse than Hitler
From the Washington Post, Oct. 20: Court Told It Lacks Power in Detainee Cases Moving quickly to implement the bill signed by President Bush this week that authorizes military trials of enemy combatants, the administration has formally notified the U.S…. Read moreWhite House seizes power from judiciary under Military Commissions Act
From the Center for Constitutional Rights, Oct. 17: Bush Signs the Military Commissions Act: CCR Calls it a Blow to Democracy and the Constitution New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) denounced President Bush’s signing into… Read moreBush signs Military Commissions Act
From the New York Law Journal, Oct. 17: Veteran defense attorney Lynne Stewart cried tears of relief yesterday as a federal judge ordered her to serve a dramatically lower sentence than prosecutors had requested for her conviction on providing material… Read moreLynne Stewart gets 28 months, remains free pending appeal
This man’s treatment, and the defense’s arguments, constitute another step in the legitimization of torture, and the dumbing-down of the word’s definition. But at least the judiciary is showing a semblance of backbone here. From the New York Times, Oct…. Read moreFeds defend torture before 2nd Circuit
As Lynne Stewart awaits sentencing, the New York Times Sept. 29 portrayed her as uncharacteristically contrite… Lawyer in Terror Case Apologizes for Violating Special Prison Rules Lynne F. Stewart, the once brashly defiant radical defense lawyer who was convicted in… Read moreLynne Stewart denied “need to know” on warrantless surveillance
Our September issue featured stories on the question of 9-11 “conspiracy theory,” including a skeptical look at the conspiracy industry and the so-called “9-11 skeptics” by WW4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg. The September Exit Poll was: “OK, did Bush do… Read more9-11 conspiracy theory: our readers write
Don’t you just love it when the government contradicts itself? The White House responds to the National Intelligence Estimate report finding the Iraq war is fueling global terrorism. From the LA Times, Sept. 25: White House: Terrorism not linked to… Read moreWhite House denies Iraq link to terror escalation
What’s really terrifying about Bush’s bid for Congress to address the controversy around torture and detainment is that, if lawmakers take the bait, there will cease to be a torture scandal and torture will be normalized. We are approaching a… Read moreBush: ditch Geneva Conventions, habeas corpus
