Video: MASHUP Stop President Bush From Making The Peace

By International Legal Expert Francis A. Boyle at the 18th Annual BERTRAND RUSSELL PEACE LECTURES – PRINCIPLE CONFRONTING POWER – The Center for Peace Studies, McMaster University. Watch the video

By Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane, New York Times It would become known inside the Central Intelligence Agency as “the Italian job,” a snide movie reference to the bungling performance of an agency team that snatched a radical Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003 and flew him to Egypt — a case…

Nick Juliano, rawstory.com Two Democratic senators leading an investigation into whether Alberto Gonzales was involved in firing eight US Attorneys for political motives are calling for a vote of “no confidence” in the embattled Attorney General. Sens. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., plan to introduce a nonbinding resolution expressing the sense the Senate…

By Sherwood Ross, Afterdowningstreet.org Military interrogators posing as “lawyers” are attempting to trick Guantanamo prisoners into providing them with information, “The Catholic Worker” (TCW) reports. This incredible and illegal practice contributes “to the prisoners’ suspicions that the (real) lawyers are not to be trusted and could be aiding the government,” TCW says in its July…

Nick Juliano, Raw Story The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has given the White House another 12 days to hand over documents it requested nearly six weeks ago regarding the administration’s legal justifications for its warrantless wiretapping program. “Despite my patience and flexibility, you have rejected every proposal,” Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) wrote in…