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Marching Toward Justice on the 217th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights

Caroline Fredrickson | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Interrogations, Military Commissions, Bill of Rights, Abuse, Open Government, Civil Rights, Guantanamo, Limited Government, Rule of Law, Rendition, Torture, Politics News
Caroline Fredrickson

When our nation's founders ratified the Bill of Rights 217 years ago today, they knew that justice could not be served in secret, and that punishment doled out in the shadows inexorably leads to illegitimacy.

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President Elect Obama: Denounce and Renounce

Harry Shearer | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, David Addington, Detention, Barack Obama, Rendition, Torture, Cheney, President Elect Obama, Politics News
Harry Shearer

This question needs to be asked of the president-elect: do you plan to denounce and renounce these extra-Constitutional ways of doing business, and the illegal policies that resulted, before you take office?

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John McCain, Sarah Palin, and "Rights"

Kit Gallant | Posted 10.06.2008 | Home

Read More: War Is Hell, John McCain, Constitution, John Mccain Speech, Sarah Palin Speech, War on Terror, Sarah Palin, Rendition, Torture, Home News
Kit Gallant

Governor Sarah Palin's acceptance speech was the best horror movie I've seen in a long time. I came to this realization after Palin exclaimed that, "A...

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Bush Goes Looking for Relevance, A Legacy in Asia

Erika Fry | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Thailand Insurgency, Burma, George W. Bush, Burma Junta, Myanmar, Myanmar Protests, Laura Bush Myanmar, Torture Southeast Asia, Rendition, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Erika Fry

While in Bangkok, Bush plans to meet Burmese activists, which may be his best last chance to reshape a legacy here, now dominated by his outsourcing of US torture to Thailand.

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And War Crimes for All....

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Excellent Reporting, Rendition, Detainee Abuse, Torture, War Crimes, Ircc, Politics News
Larisa Alexandrovna

Read this incredible article by Warren Strobel of McClatchy Newspapers 'The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and conc...

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Congressional Leaders Briefed On CIA Waterboarding In 2002

Washington Post | Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Waterboarding, 2002, Cia, Democrats, Extraordinary Rendition, Rendition, Republicans, Politics News

In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent t...

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Key False Iraq Intel Was Obtained By Burying Prisoner Alive

ABC News | Stephen Grey | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Detainee, Rendition, Iraq, Afghanistan, Prisoner, Politics News

Sometimes the music was American rap, sometimes Arab folk songs. In the CIA prison in Afghanistan, it came blaring through the speakers 24 hours a day...

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Dozens Of "Ghost Prisoners" From CIA Jails Unaccounted For

Washington Post | Craig Whitlock | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rendition, Extraordinary Rendition, Detainees, Overseas Prisons, Cia, Politics News

On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA's overseas secret prisons had been temporarily emptied and 14 al-Qaeda leaders taken to Guanta...

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Reese Witherspoon On Her Politically-Charged New Film

AP | David Germain | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Rendition, Reese Witherspoon, Entertainment News

Before her latest film, if anyone had asked Reese Witherspoon what the term "extraordinary rendition" meant, she might have answered with a blank star...

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Meryl Streep: "I'm A News Junkie... It Would Be Nice To Have A Woman President"

The Times | Tim Teeman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Iraq War, Rendition, Lions for Lambs, Meryl Streep, Christiane Amanpour, Entertainment News

Streep says she "had a lot of people in mind" when creating her character. "I'm a news junkie - C-Span, BBC, CNN." Journalists, she believes, "circled...

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