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freedetainees.org <http://freedetainees.org> Obama DOJ Invokes State-Secrets Privilege and Patriot Act To Justify Continued Bush Warrantless Wiretaps <http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/freedetainees/ZCdR/%7E3/tqgFtnCwjFY/5047> Posted: 15 Apr 2009 12:50 PM PDT A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Christine Bowman Illegal wiretapping cases could spell trouble for President Obama. What can the Obama Administration be thinking? At the Obama presidential campaign website, barackobama.com, a page titled "Plan to Change Washington" describes problems in government and then presents "The Obama/Biden Plan" to correct such problems. Here's the section on the problem of [...] Obama Tilts to CIA on Memos <http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/freedetainees/ZCdR/%7E3/qXsl49PZh00/5044> Posted: 15 Apr 2009 12:39 PM PDT Among the details in the still-classified memos is approval for a technique in which a prisoner's head could be struck against a wall as long as the head was being held and the force of the blow was controlled by the interrogator, according to people familiar with the memos. Another approved tactic was waterboarding, or simulated drowning. The Prisoner's Children <http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/freedetainees/ZCdR/%7E3/ZY7g2wF34M8/5041> Posted: 15 Apr 2009 12:24 PM PDT Share on Facebook yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "The Prisoner's Children"; http://freedetainees.org/5041 The Bush Six to Be Indicted <http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/freedetainees/ZCdR/%7E3/G6ADCQzjhog/5039> Posted: 15 Apr 2009 12:09 PM PDT By Scott Horton Spanish prosecutors will seek criminal charges against Alberto Gonzales and five high-ranking Bush administration officials for sanctioning torture at Guantánamo. Spanish prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal investigation targeting former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five top associates over their role in the torture of five Spanish citizens held at Guantánamo, [...] Mums the Word from the White House on State Secrets Act <http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/freedetainees/ZCdR/%7E3/jL7zmxUVfyk/5036> Posted: 15 Apr 2009 11:27 AM PDT To my dismay the White House has repeatedly stonewalled regarding its position on the State Secrets Privilege Protection Act targeted at limiting the executive branch's use of privilege. In the past two weeks the White House has refused comment to Marc Armbinder of The Atlantic and Greg Sargent of TPM. Other transparency advocates have [...] New Guantanamo abuse claim <http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/freedetainees/ZCdR/%7E3/Pk4V6uJAelo/5034> Posted: 15 Apr 2009 11:19 AM PDT In a phone call to Al Jazeera, Mohammad al-Qurani said the abuse continued this year, after Barack Obama, the US president, took power and promised to end abuse at the jail. Al Jazeera's Monica Villamizar reports. Source Share on Facebook yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "New Guantanamo abuse claim"; http://freedetainees.org/5034 Al Jazeera: Guantánamo captive called us to protest guards' treatment <http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/freedetainees/ZCdR/%7E3/AVVIlwGEI78/5031> Posted: 14 Apr 2009 06:10 PM PDT BY CAROL ROSENBERG [email protected] A pre-capture photo of Mohammed el Gharani, a native of Chad and long-held captive at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who has repeatedly protested claims of abuse by U.S. military personnel. COURTESY ATTORNEY CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH A Guantánamo detainee used his prison camp telephone privileges to ring up a [...] Email delivery powered by Google Inbox too full? (feed) <http://feeds2.feedburner.com/freedetainees/ZCdR> Subscribe <http://feeds2.feedburner.com/freedetainees/ZCdR> to the feed version of freedetainees.org in a feed reader. If you prefer to unsubscribe via postal mail, write to: freedetainees.org, c/o Google, 20 W Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 -- Linda *http://freedetainees.org <http://freedetainees.org/> "If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear..." - William Shakespeare * --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bangla-vision" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bangla-vision?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
