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2010-03-16: Headlines

  • Huffington Post: The Third Term of George W. Bush 2010-03-16
    Congress voted for, and the President approved, an extension of the Patriot Act set up during administration One. I'm looking forward to reading ...
  • CounterPunch: The Supreme Courtship 2010-03-16
    ... on the legality of the Military Commissions Act. Given that a president has, at most, less than a decade, and a Supreme Court appointment is for life ...
  • NPR: Should Lawyers Represent Terrorists? 2010-03-16
    Congress went back in 2006 in part of the Military Commissions Act, and explicitly said they don't have the - took away the statutory right to habeas.
  • TMCnet: News Analysis: US civil liberty advocates raise eyebrows at worker ID plan 2010-03-16
    And in the realm of national security, warrantless wiretapping, which began under the Bush administration, continues under the administration of President ...
  • TPMCafé: A Terror Trials Pep Talk 2010-03-16
    Graham's years-long effort to salvage the controversial and hapless military commissions see this HuffPo post from Human Rights First's Daphne Eviatar.
  • Madison County Courier: Happy Sunshine Week! 2010-03-16
    Libraries have been on the cutting edge of democracy, protecting borrower privacy in the face of the Patriot Act, promoting literacy initiatives ...
  • Across the Aisle: A Chip Off the Old Blockhead 2010-03-16
    They did it because-as Spencer Ackerman points out-the Military Commissions Act of 2006 expressly provided that detainees get defense lawyers.
  • Charleston Gazette: Readers' voice: March 16, 2010 2010-03-16
    ... no debate on the billions of our tax dollars spent on private military contracts and on the continuation of the Patriot Act. Pass health care now.
  • NRC International: Bellinger: 'Obama's terror policy identical to Bush's' 2010-03-16
    The military commissions have been maintained. The policy of rendition has been maintained. The idea of holding people indefinitely under the laws of war ...
  • Eurasia Review: Republican Witch-Hunters Embrace Dictatorship 2010-03-16
    Nevertheless, by also reviving the Military Commissions, the administration allowed itself to be ambushed by critics who stirred up opposition to ...
  • SYS-CON Media: World Compliance: Creating Stronger Ties To Fight Crime 2010-03-16
    World Compliance protects over 2000 clients in over 100 countries and offers solutions for compliance with FCPA, The USA Patriot Act and European Uni ...
  • ARNnet: Did Uncle Sam try to kill Wikileaks? 2010-03-16
    Just one example: The New York Times sat on the NSA warrantless wiretapping story for a full year before running it, and nobody in the mainstream medi ...

2010-03-15: Headlines

  • Tapped: A Brief Point About Coverage Of The Military Commissions. 2010-03-15
    This has become a habit with coverage of policy disputes: Republicans base an entire argument on an outrageous, verifiable claim -- military commissions ...
  • MWC News: Conservatives Hate Trial by Jury 2010-03-15
    After all, it's not as if conservatives couldn't have made trial by jury part of their military-commissions system. But that's the last thing they wanted.
  • Tapped: The Health-Care Strategy for National Security. 2010-03-15
    Republicans are increasingly adamant in using military commissions for all terrorism cases involving foreign nationals, an absurd restriction on ...
  • Independent: Cynthia McKinney: Leaders' lack of respect for rule of law makes us all ... 2010-03-15
    ... to which the policies of President Obama would mirror those of his predecessor, including the renewal of the Patriot Act and commission of war crimes.
  • Consortium News: Yoo Besmirches Legacy of Jefferson 2010-03-15
    But fewer know that the Convening Authority for the Military Commissions at Guantanamo, military judge Susan Crawford, has said that those techniques meet ...
  • Huffington Post: Lindsey Graham's Third Strike? 2010-03-15
    It also ruled that the Bush administration's military commissions were unconstitutional. So Graham helped broker a deal with the White House to pass ...
  • Huffington Post: Dems Should Go For Broke 2010-03-15
    Bush and the GOP took great advantage, pushing through game changing legislation such as tax cuts for the rich, the Patriot Act, a new Homeland Security ...
  • San Francisco Bay Guardian: US Census begins, officials work to quell fears 2010-03-15
    Census Bureau officials have stated that the USA Patriot Act does not override the explicit, legally mandated confidentiality of the census.
  • Mail Tribune: Justice for all 2010-03-15
    "Good defense counsel," they said, is "key to ensuring that military commissions, federal juries and federal judges have access to the best arguments ...
  • Pakistan Observer: Lean facets of American justice system 2010-03-15
    The Patriot Act empowered the administration to bend the law in case of the persons who were labeled as enemy combatants. It is primarily for this re ...
  • msnbc.com: Obama: 'We need courage' 2010-03-15
    Remember Obama has lied already about the stimulus, lobbyists, Gitmo, renewing the Patriot Act,GM, TARP money, The union worker amnesty on health c ...
  • DemocracyArsenal.org: Why Horse-Trading on the Terror Trials is a Bad Idea 2010-03-15
    Here's my real question: do progressive poliitical figures realize how a shift to military commissions would undercut progressives' ability to present ...
  • Raw Story: Man wearing 'Freedom or Die' t-shirt stopped at airport 2010-03-15
    The Obama Democrats just renewed the vile Patriot Act. It was Obama who presided over the false flag underpants bomber caper that resulted in the "I can see ...
  • USA Today: Election years boost lawmaking 2010-03-15
    Lawmakers reauthorized the USA Patriot Act in 2006, revamped the nation's campaign-finance system in 2002 and changed welfare in 1996.
  • Finextra: What is your digital persona? 2010-03-15
    However, they add that "TSA watchlists and NSA warrantless wiretapping are the product of finding patterns of interest, and much of Wall Street is driven ...
  • CBS 4: Census Form Coming To Your Mailbox 2010-03-15
    Groves added that personal information will remain confidential and free of the Patriot Act. He also stressed that non-citizens should fill out the forms ...
  • Santa Rosa Press Democrat: No reason for Obama to backtrack 2010-03-15
    Jeffrey Colwell, the Marine lawyer now acting as chief defense counsel at the Defense Department's Office of Military Commissions, had the matter right ...
  • iTWire: CIOs speak: Is cloud email a bumpy ride? 2010-03-15
    “In our case the data is not in Singapore, it's in the US,” says Meikle, noting the university had received “the usual questions about the US Patriot Act” ...
  • ReadMedia: New York State Bar Association Launches New Blog: Guantanamo Bay and Beyond 2010-03-15
    ... Habeas Corpus and the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the NYSBA June 2008 House of Delegates Resolution endorsing the Boumediene v.
  • FITSNews: How To Answer The Census 2010-03-15
    Obviously, you would have never filled out the census before, and opposed the Patriot Act, if you were REALLY concerned about the government and your data.
  • Dallas Morning News: Lawyer appointments suspect 2010-03-15
    What about the Patriot Act which stripped citizens of US Consitutional rights? And the previous administration which tortured people.
  • myCentralJersy.com: Sunshine Week shines light on government secrecy 2010-03-15
    Some of the provisions of the Patriot Act were a flashpoint in the debate, as evidenced by the reaction to even minor elements such as allowing government ...
  • Cato @ Liberty: Playing Chicken Again 2010-03-15
    Citizens cannot be tried by military commissions, and the jurisdictional language in the Military Commissions Act (MCA) reflects this.
  • Newsweek: The New Doctor Death 2010-03-15
    He spent part of his talk railing against the Patriot Act, airport security protocols, and other perceived incursions on freedoms.
  • News-Leader.com: Census data used for more than funding 2010-03-15
    Recently, the topic of the Patriot Act's impact on the confidentiality of Census information has been discussed in legal circles, he said.
  • Politico: Why New York's the right place to try Sept. 11 cases 2010-03-15
    Originally, he and other “high-value detainees” were slated for trial before military commissions. Last year, following through on President Barack Obama' ...
  • Ashland Daily Tidings: Dad-daughter duo is an embarrassment to the U.S. 2010-03-15
    Rumsfeld that the Bush administration's initial plans for military commissions to try detainees violated the law. (One of Hamdan's lawyer ...
  • CNET: US Army worried about Wikileaks in secret report 2010-03-15
    ... as a few conservative commentators have claimed, The New York Times' disclosure of Bush-era warrantless wiretapping would have been a crime.
  • JURIST: A Better Course: More on the Court-martial Alternative to Military Commissions 2010-03-15
    In fact, I vividly recall the day that the Department of Defense announced that it would be creating the original military commissions.
  • Atlantic Online: Rationalizing Repression 2010-03-15
    ... extend similar rights to non-citizens; he strongly dissented in Hamdan v Rumsfield, a petition by a non-citizen challenging the military commissions.
  • Chattanooga Times Free Press: Census surveys in mail 2010-03-15
    "But we have been assured that the Patriot Act or any other law will not or cannot ever trump confidentiality." This year's census is one of the shortest ...
  • Southern Pines Pilot: Where Real American Values Lie 2010-03-15
    Both Graham and Sessions, it should be noted, supported the Military Commissions Act. You know, the one that provides for those "tribunals" of which ...

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