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BBC New probe into US attorney affair Alberto Gonzales resigned after being harshly criticised over the affair The US attorney general has appointed a special prosecutor to look into the firing of nine US attorneys in 2006. The move came as a report into the affair by the inspector general of the justice department criticised…
Gitmo and the Bogus ‘Enemy Combatants’ Trials Should Be Ceased Immediately
By Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. In 2002, Donald Rumsfeld famously called the detainees at Guantánamo “the worst of the worst.” General Richard B. Myers, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned they were “very dangerous people who would gnaw hydraulic lines in the back of a C-17 to bring it down.” These claims were…
Soldier who told family to investigate is shot
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