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Jose Padilla

Send a Bad Law Away, Not People

Alison Parker | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

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Alison Parker

Every day the U.S. government is forced to grapple with the consequences of harsh and sweeping immigration laws passed by Congress 13 years ago. And Jose Padilla is the latest senseless case.

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When Searching for Extremists, Don't Forget South Carolina

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Political Satire, South, Right-Wing Extremism, Terrorism, Joe Wilson, Jose Padilla, Politics News
Brian Levin, J.D.

While overbroad and inaccurate analysis of the extremist risk is often faulty and bigoted, it can sometimes be equally humorous.

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9/11: Never Again?

Michael Brenner | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Richard Holbrooke, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Jose Padilla, 9/11 Anniversary, Politics News
Michael Brenner

Let's drop the childish game of scaring ourselves with the likes of high school drop-out Jose Padilla and similarly I.Q. challenged riff-raff. In doing so, we are behaving like kids who conjure monsters.

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Judge Rules Terrorist Can Sue Bush Admin Lawyer Over Torture Memos

AP | DON THOMPSON | Posted 07.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Memos, Bush Administration, John Yoo, Torture, Jose Padilla, Politics News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged t...

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Even For Cheney, The Al Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Dan Coleman, Jack Cloonan, War on Terror, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, Fbi, Ibn Al-Shaykh Al-Libi, Maj. Paul Burney, Dick Cheney, Politics, Newsweek, New Yorker, Vice President Dick Cheney, Jose Padilla, Guantanamo Bay, David Rose, Colin Powell, Terrorism, Vanity Fair, Guantanamo Detainees, Arkan Al-Karim, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, Al Qaeda, Paul Wolfowitz, Iraq War, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Al Qaeda Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Cia, Jane Mayer, New York Times, Waterboarding, Iraq, Vice President Cheney, War Wire, World News
Andy Worthington

Coercive and illegal techniques were used widely at Gitmo in an attempt to secure information linking al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein.

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My Role in the Torture of Binyam Mohamed

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Freedom of Speech, Post 9/11, Binyam Mohamed, Hydrogen Bomb, Jose Padilla, Torture, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

We had a government so vicious and impenetrably stupid that it managed to take my freedom of speech and turn it into someone else's living hell.

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Obama Lawyers Set To Defend Bush 'Torture Memo' Author In Court

Politico | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Jose Padilha, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Obama Lawyers, Disclosure of Yoo Memo, Yoo, Jose Padilla, Donald Rumsfeld, John Yoo, Jose Padilla 17 Years Sentence, Jose Padilla Prison, John Yoo Memo, John Yoo Torture, Politics News

In Democratic legal circles, no attorney has been more pilloried than former Bush Justice Department official John Yoo, chief author of the so-called ...

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Last(ing) Days of Indignity..?

Ross Tuttle | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Binyam Mohamed, Jose Padilla, Guantanamo, Barack Obama Guantanamo, Human Rights, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Gitmo, Torture, Politics News
Ross Tuttle

The Pentagon reports that 42 GTMO detainees are on a hunger strike. Human rights lawyers estimate the total is closer to 70, roughly 30% of those remaining in this netherworld prison.

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U.S. Justice Department drops "dirty bomb plot" allegation against Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, UK High Court, Morocco, Terrorism, Jose Padilla, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, CIA Torture, Clive Stafford Smith, Washington Post, Dark Prison, Binyam Mohamed, Justice Department, Defense Department, Dick Cheney, Military Commissions, Habeas Corpus, Politics News
Andy Worthington

As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department has dropped the key allegation against British resident and Guantánamo prisone...

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Court Confirms President's Dictatorial Powers in Case of US "Enemy Combatant" Ali al-Marri

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Us Constitution, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Enemy Combatants, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz, Ali Al-Marri, Terrorism, Jose Padilla, Taliban, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge William B. Traxler, Yaser Hamdi, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Not content with endorsing the president's dictatorial right to imprison "enemy combatants", the judges ruled that the President did not even have to allege that an "enemy combatant" had ever raised arms against US forces.

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17 Years for Ex-'dirty Bomb' Suspect

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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MIAMI — Jose Padilla, an American once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to a rela...

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17 Years for Ex-'dirty Bomb' Suspect

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jose Padilla, War on Terror, Warwire, Jose Padilla 17 Years Sentence, Jose Padilla Prison, Politics News

MIAMI — Jose Padilla, an American once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to a rela...

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