Former UN Weapons Inspector to speak in Minneapolis 8/31: “We are seeing (Iraq) history repeat itself” (in Iran).

By Ian Austen, New York Times A training manual for Canadian diplomats lists the United States among countries that potentially torture or abuse prisoners. The manual is an internal document of the Department of Foreign Affairs. A spokesman for the foreign minister confirmed the contents of the manual after news reports about it circulated on…

David Edwards and Muriel Kane, Raw Story The Civil Rights Division has been one of the jewels of the Justice Department. Founded in 1957, it played a leading role in the elimination of segregation and protection of minority rights. But according to MSNBC’s Dan Abrams, the Bush administration “has turned the division against the very…

LARA JAKES JORDAN, AP As the chief federal trial judge in Manhattan, Michael Mukasey approved secret warrants allowing government roundups of Muslims in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks. Six years later, the man President Bush wants to be attorney general acknowledged that the law authorizing those warrants “has its perils” in terrorism cases…